Business Performance Manager

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Strategy and Business Performance team supports the Global Regulatory Affairs and Strategy organization in the constant pursuit of Execution Excellence.  They do this by helping leaders understand, measure, and continuously improve performance. 

The Business Performance Manager is a member of the Transformation Execution team.  This team is responsible for helping leaders improve performance by defining performance measures and targets, establishing a portfolio of initiatives to drive improvement, developing business cases, and executing the initiatives. 

The manager will lead workstreams for mergers, acquisitions, and licensing integrations (M&A/I) across all deal phases. They serve as the Regulatory point of contact and subject matter experts in cross-functional and business development forums. They continuously improve the M&A/I operating model, processes, and templates.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Act as the Project Manager for high-priority initiatives
• Develop business cases for initiatives that capture costs, benefits, and overall value that is intended to be delivered
• Develop initiative charter
• Establish governance that includes key leaders of impacted populations
• Establish initiative scope, objectives, value realization measures, and targets
• Track, review, and regulate the progress and performance of the initiative
• Measure, track, and monitor value realization
• Provide change management support
• Support teams with the use of transformation tools and methodology

Mergers, Acquisitions & Licensing Integrations (M&A/I) — Regulatory Focus

• Lead Regulatory workstreams across all deal phases and own deliverables
• Serve as POC/SME. Maintain operating playbook and QMS bridging documents, manage risks/dependencies, represent Regulatory in integration forums.
• Perform Regulatory due diligence, synthesize findings and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Execute change management to enable effective implementation and adoption.

Required Knowledge & Experience:

• Project Management
• Business strategy consulting experience and Business case development
• Change Management, including developing Sponsorship for changes, engaging impacted populations, change communications, and behavior change
• Expertise with business transformation initiatives and programs
• Excellent written/oral communication skills and attention to detail
• Must demonstrate strong leadership skills in a team environment which requires negotiation, persuasion, collaboration, and analytical judgment

Preferred Qualifications & Experience:

• Prior experience supporting or leading M&A/I integrations within pharma/biotech domains preferred.
• Ability to anticipate and address integration risks.
• Additional certifications (e.g., PMP, Prosci/ACMP (change), Lean/Six Sigma), MBA is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of the drug development and commercialization cycle, including submissions and health authority interactions.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Smartsheet, and SharePoint.

Basic Education and Experience:

Master’s degree and 9+ years of overall experience

OR

Bachelor’s degree and 11+ years of related experience

AND

4-6 years of relevant experience.