Executive Director, Strategy & Enterprise Transformation

PCI Pharma Services

$176K — $218K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
  • 10-15+ years in strategy, management consulting, finance, or operations.
  • Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
  • Familiarity with working alongside executive leadership and Boards.
  • Strong financial acumen including forecasting and KPI design.
  • Advanced analytical skills and excellent communication capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead oversight of strategic and transformation initiatives.
  • Design and maintain a world-class PMO framework.
  • Develop enterprise KPI frameworks linking objectives with performance.
  • Build executive dashboards and forecasting models for decision-making.
  • Identify opportunities for revenue and margin improvement.
  • Drive adoption of new processes and performance disciplines.
  • Facilitate problem-solving across cross-functional challenges.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment focused on innovation.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and leadership development.
  • Access to a strong network of executive leaders and stakeholders.
  • Engagement in significant value-creation initiatives.
  • Be part of a mission-driven organization focusing on patient outcomes.
Full Job Description
Summary:

The Executive Director, Strategy & Enterprise Transformation serves as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership on enterprise priorities and strategic initiatives while leading the governance and execution oversight of high-impact transformation and value-creation initiatives. This role establishes enterprise-wide operating rhythms, management reviews, executive steering committees, and performance management cadences while ensuring alignment across strategy, operating plans, budgets, forecasting, resource allocation, and execution priorities. The Executive Director develops executive-level insights and recommendations to drive growth, profitability, productivity, and shareholder value; identifies enterprise risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, and execution gaps; and develops appropriate mitigation strategies. The role also influences leaders across organizational boundaries without direct authority and supports reporting to the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, ownership, and investors, as appropriate.

Core Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Portfolio Leadership
Lead oversight of a portfolio of strategic, operational, digital, commercial, and transformation initiatives. Create visibility into performance and ensure initiatives deliver targeted business outcomes.

2. PMO and Governance Excellence
Design and maintain a world-class PMO framework that standardizes governance, prioritization, reporting, accountability, resource management, benefits realization, and executive decision-making.

3. Enterprise Performance Management
Develop enterprise KPI frameworks that connect strategic objectives, operational performance, financial outcomes, customer metrics, and transformation milestones.

4. Executive Analytics and Decision Support
Build sophisticated executive dashboards, scenario analyses, forecasting models, and performance reviews that enable faster and better decision-making.

5. Value Creation and Financial Impact
Partner closely with Finance and Operations to identify opportunities for revenue acceleration, margin expansion, productivity improvement, working capital optimization, and capital efficiency.

6. Transformation and Change Leadership
Drive adoption of new processes, operating models, systems, governance mechanisms, and performance management disciplines.

7. Cross-Functional Problem Solving
Lead structured problem-solving efforts across enterprise challenges and facilitate resolution of complex cross-functional issues.

8. Data and Digital Enablement
Partner with IT, Digital, Finance, and Operations teams to improve data quality, reporting automation, analytics platforms, and enterprise visibility.

Key Deliverables
• Enterprise performance management framework
• Executive and Board-level KPI dashboards
• Transformation portfolio governance model
• Initiative tracking and benefits-realization process
• Enterprise risk and issue management framework
• Financial and operational value-creation reporting
• Executive Committee review materials
• Strategic decision-support analytics and recommendations

Leadership Expectations
• Operate as an enterprise leader with a company-first mindset.
• Demonstrate executive presence and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Cultivate accountability, transparency, and execution discipline.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, influence, and collaboration.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and fact-based decision-making.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, advanced business degree, engineering degree, or equivalent preferred.
• 10-15+ years of progressive experience in strategy, management consulting, finance, transformation, PMO, operations, corporate development, or business leadership roles.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation programs and enterprise initiatives.
• Experience working with executive leadership teams and Boards.
• Strong financial acumen, including forecasting, budgeting, KPI design, value creation tracking, and performance management.
• Advanced analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional communication and executive presentation capabilities.

Preferred Characteristics
• High intellectual curiosity and learning agility.
• Ability to simplify complex business challenges.
• Influential leader capable of driving outcomes without formal authority.
• Strong systems thinker able to connect strategy, operations, finance, technology, and organizational dynamics.
• Comfortable operating in high-growth, private-equity-backed, and rapidly changing environments.
• Demonstrated capacity for broader enterprise leadership and future executive advancement.

Impact of the Role

The role is expected to materially improve execution effectiveness, accelerate enterprise decision-making, enhance strategic alignment, strengthen accountability, improve financial performance, increase organizational transparency, and support long-term value creation. The individual will play a pivotal role in shaping enterprise priorities and ensuring PCI successfully converts strategy into measurable outcomes.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $176,640-$218,970 annually. Actual base pay may vary based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

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