AVP, Business Strategy – Life Sciences & Diagnostics

The Associate Vice President (AVP), LDG Strategy is the architect and driver of Life Sciences & Diagnostics Markets Group (LDG) business group strategy—translating enterprise direction into clear ‘where to play / how to win’ choices, a prioritized growth agenda, and an execution-ready operating rhythm across all LDG divisions. The role partners closely with the LDG President/Leadership Team, division general managers, and key enterprise functions to shape the portfolio, size and validate opportunities, and ensure resources flow to the highest-value bets—while embedding strategy into day-to-day management through mechanisms such as a balanced scorecard, strategic reviews, and focused deep dives. This leader combines rigorous analytics and market insight with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across a highly matrixed, global organization.

• Lead LDG’s end-to-end strategic planning process: annual strategy, multi-year roadmap, and targeted strategic deep dives that sharpen choices and accelerate decisions.

• Translate enterprise priorities into LDG strategy and actionable priorities across divisions, balancing near-term performance with longer-term growth.

• Create alignment on investment theses, strategic trade-offs, and resource allocation across divisions and functions.

• Build and maintain a portfolio view of LDG opportunities across core, adjacent, and whitespace areas—backed by market sizing, customer insight, and competitive dynamics.

• Develop decision-grade business cases (value creation logic, risks, milestones, leading indicators) to enable data-backed prioritization.

• Establish a clear pipeline of growth initiatives, with stage gates from concept → validation → scale.

• Embed strategy into LDG operating cadence through balanced scorecard metrics, operating reviews, and performance dialogues—ensuring early visibility to progress, pivots, and trade-offs.

• Partner with PMO/operational leaders to connect strategic priorities to initiatives, timelines, owners, and outcomes with executional certainty.

• Drive cross-divisional collaboration and decision velocity by clarifying ownership and coordinating dependencies.

• Maintain a forward-looking view of macro and market drivers affecting LDG; translate trends into implications for portfolio choices and capability building.

• Characterize market structure, customer needs, competitor behavior, and value pools to inform ‘how to win’ strategies.

• In partnership with Corporate Development and divisional leaders, support identification and screening of potential targets aligned to LDG strategic priorities.

• Contribute to diligence hypotheses, investment rationale, and (as applicable) integration value-creation planning.

• Craft crisp, executive-ready narratives and materials that translate complexity into clear choices, consequences, and actions.

• Build coalitions across divisions and functions; anticipate conflicts and align stakeholders to outcomes through influence and trust.

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA and/or life sciences/diagnostics-related technical degree preferred.

• 12+ years of experience in strategy, business development, strategic marketing, market/competitive intelligence, management consulting, investment banking, or related roles with increasing leadership responsibility.

• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in a global, multi-cultural, highly matrixed environment; track record of aligning stakeholders to decisions and outcomes.

• Strong analytical skills (market sizing, competitive evaluation, portfolio trade-offs) and comfort operating in ambiguity.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex inputs into clear executive recommendations.

• Exposure to M&A diligence processes is a plus; experience working cross-functionally with finance, corporate development, and business leadership.

• Bring new thinking that challenges assumptions and conventional wisdom.

• Apply strong analytics in market and competitive evaluations (structure, conduct, performance) to inform decisions.

• Set ambitious but achievable goals; identify and act on opportunities that enable targets to be exceeded.

• Demonstrate creative problem-solving and identify non-obvious opportunities; build support for bold recommendations.

• Align stakeholders to adopt creative and non-obvious opportunities; build coalitions across divisions and functions.

• Engage others in open dialogue; adapt influence approach to stakeholder needs and concerns.

• Leverage external network to identify trends and farther-afield opportunities; bring market perspective into decision forums.

• Anticipate potential conflicts and pre-empt them through structured alignment, clarity on trade-offs, and crisp decision framing.

• LDG leadership has a clear, shared strategy with explicit choices, investment logic, and measurable outcomes.

• A robust pipeline of prioritized growth initiatives exists, with decision-ready business cases and disciplined stage gates.

• Strategy is operationalized through a balanced scorecard and operating cadence that drives accountability and faster pivots.

• Cross-division collaboration improves and resources concentrate on the highest-value opportunities across LDG.