Director, Strategy & Operations and Congress Strategy Lead, U.S. SYFOVRE

About the role

The Director, Strategy & Operations and Congress Strategy Lead is a highly visible leadership role responsible for helping the U.S. SYFOVRE franchise translate strategy into execution, drive operational excellence, and maintain strong alignment across the commercial organization and key cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to the VP, Head of U.S. SYFOVRE Business, helping plan, prioritize, and direct the most critical strategic, operational, and organizational activities across the franchise.
• Help lead and orchestrate the U.S. SYFOVRE operating model, including business reviews, leadership team meetings, governance forums, annual planning processes, and key cross-functional decision-making routines.
• Drive the franchise’s strategy-to-execution engine by translating priorities into clear workstreams, timelines, deliverables, accountabilities, and governance processes that enable disciplined execution.
• Lead meeting preparation for leadership and executive forums, including agenda setting, synthesis of cross-functional inputs, development of executive-ready pre-reads, talking points, scripts, summaries, and follow-up action tracking.
• Ensure strong alignment and information flow across Commercial, Medical, Access, Commercial Operations, Analytics, Finance, Compliance, and other key partners, while proactively surfacing risks, opportunities, and barriers to execution.
• Build and maintain a “control tower” for key franchise priorities by integrating dashboards, milestones, dependencies, risks, mitigation plans, and performance indicators to support visibility and accountability.
• Cook up strategic priorities, support scenario planning, and help leadership teams evaluate tradeoffs and make timely, well-informed business decisions.
• Own or support the development of high-quality executive communications for internal leadership audiences, ensuring complex business updates are synthesized into concise, compelling, decision-oriented narratives.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, operating rhythm, governance, and ways of working to strengthen execution, maximize resources, and enhance organizational effectiveness across the franchise.
• Lead through influence across a highly matrixed organization, helping create clarity, accountability, and momentum across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Own the U.S. SYFOVRE congress strategy, ensuring presence, sponsorships, programming, and engagement plans are aligned to brand strategy, lifecycle priorities, and commercial objectives.
• Lead cross-functional planning and execution for major ophthalmology congresses and related forums, partnering closely with Marketing, Sales, Medical, Compliance, Operations, and external agencies/vendors to deliver a coordinated and high-quality presence.
• Drive congress planning across key workstreams, including sponsorship strategy, booth presence, on-site experience, executive planning, KOL engagement logistics, asset readiness, and performance monitoring.
• Partner with Field leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align on congress-related objectives, executional plans, and post-congress follow-up.
• Translate congress insights, learnings, and outcomes into actionable recommendations for brand leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Manage congress-related vendors, budgets, planning tools, and asset workflows, while ensuring programs and materials move appropriately through required review and approval processes, including PRC where applicable.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with relevant congress organizations, societies, and external partners in support of franchise objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in biotech/pharma, management consulting, commercial strategy, strategic operations, program management, or related roles.
• Proven experience supporting senior leadership and driving strategic planning, governance, operational execution, and cross-functional alignment within a commercial or franchise environment.
• Strong project management and organizational capabilities, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to produce executive-ready materials and synthesize complex inputs into clear, compelling narratives and recommendations.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify critical issues early and drive thoughtful, actionable solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and drive alignment in a highly matrixed organization.
• Experience working across Commercial, Medical, Access, Operations, Compliance, Finance, and related functions.