Director Operational Strategy

About the Role

The Director of Operational Strategy-ECD leads a team of Operational Strategy Managers and owns the Early Clinical Development pipeline. The Director partners closely with BD, Sales Operations, Delivery Team to shape differentiators, evaluate operational and financial risk, and ensure the organization is prepared to deliver on commitments for Early Phase Clinical Development studies.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational strategy team and set the strategic direction, frameworks, and standards for operational narratives

• Represent operational strategy in executive-level reviews, business development meetings and leadership discussions.

• Evaluate operational and financial risk across the entire portfolio.

• Review complex bid models, staffing structures, and operational assumptions.

• Guide strategic pricing considerations in partnership with finance and BD.

• Govern the quality, consistency, and accuracy of all operational strategy deliverables, ensuring documentation is audit-ready and aligned with commercial and operational standards

• Ensure data integrity and consistency across strategy materials and models.

• Oversee adoption of strategy tools, modeling frameworks, and knowledge repositories.

Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of CRO experience
• Experience with RFP response and Opportunity lifecycle management
• Experience managing teams
• Must have experience running ANZ Early phase studies and familiarity with EU studies is preferable
• Strong executive communication and cross-functional influencing skills with experience partnering with senior leadership on strategic decisions.
• Advanced risk assessment, and narrative development capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage portfolio
• Background in operational leadership, delivery management, or commercial strategy.
• Experience developing frameworks, standards, or capability-building programs

Novotech is proud to offer a great workplace. We are committed to being an employer of choice for gender equality and providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated fairly and with respect.

Our team members are passionate about what we do, but we understand work is only one of the things that is important to them. We support our team members with flexible working options, paid parental leave for both parents, flexible leave entitlements, wellness programs and ongoing development programs.

We are looking for people who are passionate about working clinical research and biotech, including people who identify as LGBTIQ+, have a disability or have caring responsibilities.

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every application. We look forward to talking to you about working at Novotech