Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights
About the role
Entity: CSL Seqirus
Job Category: Commercial
Job Family: Market Insights & Analytics
Job Type: Full Time
Location**:** Kirkland, Québec, Canada
Employer Reference: R-277898
Job Description
Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights
The Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights, is a member of the Global Commercial Strategy & Planning team and serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership. The role leads enterprise-wide investment governance, portfolio prioritization, and decision support to enable long-term growth. The Director also oversees the Market Insights capability, ensuring insights directly inform portfolio decisions, commercial strategy, and resource allocation.
Major Responsibilities:
Strategic Investment Decision Governance
- Leads the design and governance of enterprise-wide investment strategy and portfolio prioritization, shaping critical resource allocation decisions across R&D, capital investments and commercial initiatives to enable delivery of the organization’s long-range growth strategy.
- Partners with senior leadership to define investment trade-offs, ensuring alignment to corporate strategy, risk tolerance, and long-term value creation
Portfolio Decision Support
- Leads cross-functional problem solving on high-impact business challenges, defining strategic options and influencing executive decisions
- Challenges faced are often complex with significant ambiguity, requiring extensive investigation and analysis to recommend strategic objectives and alternatives
- Navigate complex matrix business environments and manage diverse stakeholders and their varying interests
- Comfortable with thinking outside the box and bringing unconventional ideas to the table
- Synthesizes complex analyses into clear strategic recommendations, influencing decision-making at the executive level
Market Intelligence, Insights and Strategy
- Maintain surveillance over competitive markets and identify organization strengths and weaknesses and business opportunities
- Sets the global vision and strategic direction for Market Insights, establishing an integrated insights capability that informs enterprise strategy, portfolio decisions, and commercial execution.
- Oversee key market intelligence and insights to provide commercial input to global strategic and regional plans and enable effective strategic, tactical and operational decision-making.
- Direct market research initiatives for insights to forecasting and strategic planning.
- Ensure insights are translated into actionable strategies that directly impact business performance and competitive positioning.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Expertise in business strategy, financial analysis and modelling, decision support and portfolio analysis.
- Undergraduate degree in business, finance, engineering, economics, or science with demonstrated expertise in financial analysis; graduate degree in business or finance preferred
- Typically requires 10-12+ years of relevant experience in strategy, finance, or corporate/business development role, including some experience in the vaccine industry
- Capable of clear communication of sophisticated analytical concepts
- Fluency in conducting and understanding quantitative analysis
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to communicate complicated data clearly and concisely
- Proven ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders
- Native-level fluency in written and spoken English
- Travel Requirements: Up to 20% domestic and international travel as required
Location
- Global - all Seqirus office and site locations
The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $210,000 - $260,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position in Summit, NJ and Waltham, MA as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity.
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About CSL Seqirus
CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
About CSL Plasma
CSL Plasma is one of the world's largest collectors of human plasma. We are committed to excellence and innovation in everything we do. Our work ensures that tens of thousands of people with rare and serious diseases are able to live normal, healthy lives. We are committed to our work because people's lives depend on us. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/2IApjpz.
Supported by parent company CSL Behring, the global leader in plasma protein biotherapeutics, CSL Plasma has more than 280 plasma collection centers globally. CSL Plasma also has a state-of-the-art testing laboratory that features some of the most advanced technology, instrumentation and automation in the field; two logistics centers, one in Dallas and one in Indianapolis. Our corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.
Our U.S. plasma collection centers are committed to the highest standards of quality and safety. When you donate, you give a valuable gift to those who require plasma-derived therapies to live healthier lives.
The CSL Group has a combined heritage of outstanding contribution to medicine and human health with more than 100 years experience in the development and manufacture of vaccines and plasma protein biotherapies.
With major facilities in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the US, CSL has over 30,000 employees working in more than 35 countries. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/3QZbZeZ
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Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights
About the role
Entity: CSL Seqirus
Job Category: Commercial
Job Family: Market Insights & Analytics
Job Type: Full Time
Location**:** Kirkland, Québec, Canada
Employer Reference: R-277898
Job Description
Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights
The Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights, is a member of the Global Commercial Strategy & Planning team and serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership. The role leads enterprise-wide investment governance, portfolio prioritization, and decision support to enable long-term growth. The Director also oversees the Market Insights capability, ensuring insights directly inform portfolio decisions, commercial strategy, and resource allocation.
Major Responsibilities:
Strategic Investment Decision Governance
- Leads the design and governance of enterprise-wide investment strategy and portfolio prioritization, shaping critical resource allocation decisions across R&D, capital investments and commercial initiatives to enable delivery of the organization’s long-range growth strategy.
- Partners with senior leadership to define investment trade-offs, ensuring alignment to corporate strategy, risk tolerance, and long-term value creation
Portfolio Decision Support
- Leads cross-functional problem solving on high-impact business challenges, defining strategic options and influencing executive decisions
- Challenges faced are often complex with significant ambiguity, requiring extensive investigation and analysis to recommend strategic objectives and alternatives
- Navigate complex matrix business environments and manage diverse stakeholders and their varying interests
- Comfortable with thinking outside the box and bringing unconventional ideas to the table
- Synthesizes complex analyses into clear strategic recommendations, influencing decision-making at the executive level
Market Intelligence, Insights and Strategy
- Maintain surveillance over competitive markets and identify organization strengths and weaknesses and business opportunities
- Sets the global vision and strategic direction for Market Insights, establishing an integrated insights capability that informs enterprise strategy, portfolio decisions, and commercial execution.
- Oversee key market intelligence and insights to provide commercial input to global strategic and regional plans and enable effective strategic, tactical and operational decision-making.
- Direct market research initiatives for insights to forecasting and strategic planning.
- Ensure insights are translated into actionable strategies that directly impact business performance and competitive positioning.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Expertise in business strategy, financial analysis and modelling, decision support and portfolio analysis.
- Undergraduate degree in business, finance, engineering, economics, or science with demonstrated expertise in financial analysis; graduate degree in business or finance preferred
- Typically requires 10-12+ years of relevant experience in strategy, finance, or corporate/business development role, including some experience in the vaccine industry
- Capable of clear communication of sophisticated analytical concepts
- Fluency in conducting and understanding quantitative analysis
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to communicate complicated data clearly and concisely
- Proven ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders
- Native-level fluency in written and spoken English
- Travel Requirements: Up to 20% domestic and international travel as required
Location
- Global - all Seqirus office and site locations
The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $210,000 - $260,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position in Summit, NJ and Waltham, MA as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity.
#LI-Hybrid
About CSL Seqirus
CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
About CSL Plasma
CSL Plasma is one of the world's largest collectors of human plasma. We are committed to excellence and innovation in everything we do. Our work ensures that tens of thousands of people with rare and serious diseases are able to live normal, healthy lives. We are committed to our work because people's lives depend on us. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/2IApjpz.
Supported by parent company CSL Behring, the global leader in plasma protein biotherapeutics, CSL Plasma has more than 280 plasma collection centers globally. CSL Plasma also has a state-of-the-art testing laboratory that features some of the most advanced technology, instrumentation and automation in the field; two logistics centers, one in Dallas and one in Indianapolis. Our corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.
Our U.S. plasma collection centers are committed to the highest standards of quality and safety. When you donate, you give a valuable gift to those who require plasma-derived therapies to live healthier lives.
The CSL Group has a combined heritage of outstanding contribution to medicine and human health with more than 100 years experience in the development and manufacture of vaccines and plasma protein biotherapies.
With major facilities in Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the US, CSL has over 30,000 employees working in more than 35 countries. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/3QZbZeZ