Senior Director, Head of Corporate Strategy

Senior Director, Head Of Corporate Strategy

At Medison, we offer hope to patients suffering from rare and severe diseases. Through strategic partnerships with best-in-class biotech companies, we commercialize breakthrough therapies across global markets.

Our culture is rooted in care, agility, collaboration, and innovation, and we're united by a shared purpose to make a meaningful difference.

If you're passionate about transformative growth and delivering innovation to patients, we invite you to be part of our journey.

We are seeking a highly strategic and action oriented Senior Director, Head of Corporate Strategy to lead Medison's enterprise strategy. Reporting directly to the Chief Business Officer, this leader will be part of the Business Development and Corporate Strategy leadership team and responsible for shaping the company's strategic planning process and long-term enterprise growth.

This role is ideal for a visionary, proactive, intellectually curious and analytically rigorous leader, who can define where Medison goes next, guide senior decision-making and take action to position Medison for sustained long-term value creation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of Medison's annual strategic planning and long-range enterprise strategy, in close partnership with the CBO and Executive Team.
• Define and continuously refine Medison's enterprise growth strategy, including evaluation of strategic priorities, business expansion opportunities, and capability-building needs.
• Build and maintain a robust understanding of industry dynamics, including competitor strategies, market shifts, therapeutic area trends, regulatory developments, and emerging business models across the biopharma ecosystem.
• Develop best-in-class strategic frameworks, benchmarks, and analytical models to assess growth opportunities, market attractiveness, competitive positioning, and strategic trade-offs.
• Lead competitive intelligence efforts, including benchmarking of peer companies, business models, organizational capabilities, portfolio strategies, and partnership approaches.
• Assess and prioritize strategic partnership opportunities that could accelerate Medison's growth, enhance capabilities, or expand access to innovation.
• Partner closely with Business Development, Finance, Commercial, Medical, and other functions to ensure strategy is informed by robust cross-functional insights and grounded in execution realities.
• Shape Board of Directors and Executive team discussions, develop high quality decision support materials, strategic reviews, with clear, data-driven recommendations.
• Identify key strategic risks and opportunities and proactively develop scenario plans and mitigation strategies to support enterprise resilience and agility.
• Drive strategic special projects and enterprise-level analyses as requested by the CBO and Executive Leadership Team.
• Serve as a thought partner to senior leaders across the organization, helping translate strategic priorities into clear choices, measurable initiatives, and aligned action plans.
• Help establish and institutionalize a strategy management cadence, including KPI tracking, strategic initiative monitoring, and periodic reassessment of assumptions and priorities.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience in corporate strategy, in-house consulting, management consulting, business planning, corporate development, or related strategic roles within biotech, pharma, healthcare, or life sciences.
• Significant experience developing and leading annual strategic plans, enterprise strategy, growth strategy, or strategic planning efforts in complex and fast-paced organizations.
• Excellent financial and strategic acumen, with the ability to evaluate growth opportunities through both qualitative and quantitative lenses.
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop analytical frameworks, and translate insights into practical strategic recommendations.
• Strong understanding of the biopharma industry, including market dynamics, commercialization models, partnerships, competitive intelligence, and long-term value drivers.
• Experience in competitive intelligence, market analysis, benchmarking, and strategic business case development.
• Strong experience working closely with senior executives and preparing materials for Executive Team and Board-level discussions.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to influence across functions and levels of seniority.
• Strong leadership presence, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse stakeholders in a highly collaborative manner.
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred; additional scientific or healthcare-related training is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, high ownership, and comfort operating in a hyper-growth, fast-evolving environment.

We Offer

• The opportunity to shape enterprise strategy and long-term value creation at a high-growth global biopharma company.
• A patient-centric, mission-driven culture that values collaboration, excellence, and ownership.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Location: United States, East Coast based (Greater NY or Greater Boston preferred; remote position). Must be willing and able to work East Coast hours.

Reports to: Chief Business Officer

Expected Base Pay Range (USD): $250,000-$310,000 per annum

The successful candidate's starting base pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The expected base pay range for this role may be modified based on market conditions.

Medison is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.