Senior Director, Strategy - Regeneron Genetics Center

Role Summary

The Senior Director, RGC Strategy will play a key role in identifying and addressing strategic business questions of high importance, collaborating with functions across RGC and Regeneron to drive analysis and assessment of strategic projects and developing actionable business and market insights for presentation to senior management. This role leads in developing business cases by partnering with other functions and synthesizing cross-functional input and information from internal and external sources, and identifying approaches for addressing new opportunities and challenges facing the business.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and oversee analyses to inform business decisions impacting strategies for target discovery, drug development, consumer applications, commercialization, capital allocation, and other areas
• Partner with functions across the RGC/REGN to gather information and data (internal and external) about the business to inform future strategy
• Establish relationships with leaders across the RGC to understand needs and problems aligned with new and/or evolving business opportunities
• Work with the Vice President to identify and define opportunities to bring clarity, consistency, and efficiency to decision-making processes related to new business opportunities
• Model future scenarios at a product and business level to inform decisions
• Collaborate with the business development team to assess market opportunities and potential return for key R&D investment decisions
• Present conclusions and recommendations of analyses to senior leadership
• Contribute to the planning, strategic design and execution of business objectives within the RGC business team
• Collaborate with partner functions across REGN including finance, purchasing, compliance, facilities, human resources and other G&A functions supporting RGC business planning

Qualifications

• Graduate degree (MBA, MD, or PhD) and 5+ years of work experience in consulting, equity research, or investment banking, or in a business strategy role within the biopharmaceutical industry; or 10+ years of relevant experience without a graduate degree
• Strong analytical and communication skills with experience critiquing scientific and clinical information within the context of new business development and enterprise development
• Broad understanding of research operations, management, finance, business development, market analysis and forecasting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience developing and presenting business analyses/proposals
• Understanding of financial implications and costing analysis to expand current business platforms and launch new enterprise opportunities; able to develop and interpret long-term financial models and back-of-the-envelope analyses
• Ability to distill complex issues and ideas into simple, comprehensible terms and resolve issues

Skills

• Strategic thinking and business judgment
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Financial modeling and scenario planning
• Vendor management and contract negotiation
• Communication and presentation to senior leadership

Education

• Graduate degree (MBA, MD, or PhD) or equivalent experience as described in the Qualifications