You will be supporting the international roll-out of our approved prostate cancer imaging agent and helping us to advance our portfolio of late clinical-stage products that address significant unmet need in oncology and rare diseases.
See Yourself at TelixThe Director, Business Improvement is an individual contributor role within the Business Improvement Office, and serves as a strategic leader, providing enterprise-level guidance, prioritization, and oversight across a portfolio of high-impact strategic, operational, and business development initiatives across Telix global.
This role partners directly with business leadership and senior cross-functional leadership to drive strategic priorities, investment decisions and ensure disciplined execution of priorities that materially impact business performance outcomes. The position owns the strategy development, financial evaluations, and value created across the portfolio of strategic initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a trusted advisor and strategic operator who can translate ambiguity into direction, influence at the executive level, and ensure that complex, multi-workstream efforts deliver measurable outcomes.
Key Accountabilities:Portfolio Oversight & Governance- Oversee and lead execution of a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities across functions, long-term objectives and value delivery.
- Establish the reporting and performance standards for the initiative portfolio, ensuring leadership has consistent visibility into progress, risk, and value delivered.
- Identify risks, issues, and dependencies early, and escalate to leadership with recommended options.
- Establish and maintain governance structures, tracking mechanisms, and decision frameworks across initiatives.
- Ensure clear prioritization, sequencing, and trade-off decisions across competing initiatives.
- Hold initiative owners accountable for delivery, outcomes, and alignment to strategic objectives.
Strategic Leadership & Business Direction - Define and own the enterprise framework, standards, and methodologies by which strategic initiatives are evaluated, prioritized, and governed across Telix.
- Own the integrity and defensibility of the financial and business-case analysis supporting enterprise investment decisions.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to BU leadership, helping define priorities and investment decisions.
- Synthesize inputs across initiatives into enterprise-level insights, risks, and recommendations for executive leadership.
- Lead the creation of executive-ready materials to board, BU leadership and functional leaders.
- Facilitate decision-making forums, ensuring clarity, alignment, and follow-through.
- Provide challenge and perspective to leadership to improve decision quality and organizational focus.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment - Drive alignment across Business Units and key functions (R&D, Sales, Finance, IT, etc.).
- Influence senior stakeholders through structured problem solving, data-driven insights, and strong executive presence.
- Resolve cross-functional conflicts, remove barriers, and enable progress across complex, interdependent workstreams.
Operational Excellence & Capability Building - Build organizational capability and analytical rigor across Telix.
- Coach and mentor initiative leads, elevating overall performance and effectiveness.
Education & Experience - Master's or higher in STEM or business-related field and 8+ years of Management Consulting, Investment Banking, PE/VC or internal advisory experience; or Bachelor's in STEM or business-related field with 10+ years of experience in analytical, strategy, operations, project management, or business improvement roles
- Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership on strategic priorities and investment decisions
- Experience owning enterprise or multi-business-unit initiative portfolios, including governance design and value realization
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with cross-functional and cross-BU stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple complex initiatives and guiding work across cross-functional resources
- Strong analytical and finance capabilities, including proficiency in MS Office to synthesize quantitative and qualitative inputs into executive-level presentations
- Experience conducting primary and secondary research, data analysis, and documentation to support business cases, operational improvements, and decision-making.
- Proven ability to operate with limited direction, manage ambiguity, and influence outcomes through structured thinking and collaboration
- Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, or MedTech preferred
Skills - Strong business and financial acumen, including the ability to interpret P&L statements and assess financial impacts
- Ability to create financial statements and NPV models for business cases as well as M&A and strategic partnerships
- Analytical skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize insights
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills suitable for leadership audiences
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills across multiple concurrent initiatives
- Comfortable working with ambiguity evolving scope and competing priorities
- Project management, executive-level presentations and financial modeling
Key Capabilities: - Senior Ownership - Oriented - Takes accountability for outcomes across multiple initiatives and follows through to completion
- Analytical & Detail - Focused - Produces and reviews high-quality analysis that supports sound, defensible decision-making
- Clear Communicator - Translates complex topics into clear, structured, and decision-focused updates
- Adaptable - Adjusts approach as priorities, scope, and business needs evolve
- Collaborative - Works effectively across teams while maintaining clear role boundaries and accountability
- Domestic travel up to 25%
Being a Telix employee means being a part of a unique, global, interdisciplinary team working to deliver what's next in precision medicine. We have hybrid and remote employees located all around the world. We offer competitive salaries, annual performance-based bonuses, an equity-based incentive program, generous vacation, paid wellness days and support for learning and development.
