Director, Portfolio Strategy & Market Insights

The Role
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

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