Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights
The Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights, is a member of the Global Commercial Strategy & Planning team and serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership. The role leads enterprise-wide investment governance, portfolio prioritization, and decision support to enable long-term growth. The Director also oversees the Market Insights capability, ensuring insights directly inform portfolio decisions, commercial strategy, and resource allocation.
Major Responsibilities:
Strategic Investment Decision Governance
Leads the design and governance of enterprise-wide investment strategy and portfolio prioritization, shaping critical resource allocation decisions across R&D, capital investments and commercial initiatives to enable delivery of the organization’s long-range growth strategy.
Partners with senior leadership to define investment trade-offs, ensuring alignment to corporate strategy, risk tolerance, and long-term value creation
Portfolio Decision Support
Leads cross-functional problem solving on high-impact business challenges, defining strategic options and influencing executive decisions
Challenges faced are often complex with significant ambiguity, requiring extensive investigation and analysis to recommend strategic objectives and alternatives
Navigate complex matrix business environments and manage diverse stakeholders and their varying interests
Comfortable with thinking outside the box and bringing unconventional ideas to the table
Synthesizes complex analyses into clear strategic recommendations, influencing decision-making at the executive level
Market Intelligence, Insights and Strategy
Maintain surveillance over competitive markets and identify organization strengths and weaknesses and business opportunities
Sets the global vision and strategic direction for Market Insights, establishing an integrated insights capability that informs enterprise strategy, portfolio decisions, and commercial execution.
Oversee key market intelligence and insights to provide commercial input to global strategic and regional plans and enable effective strategic, tactical and operational decision-making.
Direct market research initiatives for insights to forecasting and strategic planning.
Ensure insights are translated into actionable strategies that directly impact business performance and competitive positioning.