Associate Director, Corporate Strategy

About Servier

Servier in the U.S. is a Boston-based, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company launched by Servier Group in 2018. As a privately held organization, Servier is uniquely positioned to advance cutting-edge science, tackle underserved therapeutic areas, and make patients the focus of every strategic decision.

Role Summary

The Associate Director, US Corporate Strategy reports directly to the Director, Head of US Corporate Strategy and is a high-impact member of the CSDO (Corporate Strategy, Development & Operations) leadership team. This role serves as a thought partner to senior leaders across Commercial, Medical, Finance, Insights & Analytics, and Development, helping translate strategy into action across the U.S. portfolio.

This role is designed for a highly agile strategist who can rapidly build depth in Servier’s disease areas, anticipate opportunities and risks in business performance, and synthesize complexity into clear, executive-ready insights. The Associate Director will both lead independent workstreams end-to-end and orchestrate cross‑functional teams to drive growth, inform key decisions, and shape the future of Servier in the U.S.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning & Enterprise Impact

• Support the end-to-end design, coordination, and continuous improvement of Servier Pharmaceuticals’ U.S. strategic planning cycle and core enterprise deliverables
• Rapidly build fluency across Servier’s disease areas and portfolio priorities to ensure strategies are grounded in scientific, clinical, and commercial realities
• Lead discrete workstreams by owning problem framing, hypothesis development, workplan design, cross functional engagement, and final synthesis.
• Demonstrate strong strategic judgment by identifying growth opportunities, trade-offs, and risks to business performance, clearly surfacing implications for leadership decision‑making

2. Strategic & Resourcing Insight

• Pressure test forecasts and resourcing plans to ensure alignment with US priorities, vision and goals.
• Proactively identify risks, sensitivities, and inflection points in performance
• Lead development of high impact executive presentations that distill rigorous analysis into focused recommendations and decision pathways
• Generate opportunity assessments and business cases (e.g., ROI, NPV, breakeven analysis).

3. High Priority Strategic Projects

• Lead and support cross functional strategic initiatives sponsored by the U.S. Leadership Team, often in ambiguous, fast‑moving environments.
• Own projects end-to-end, including scoping, framing, analytics, storyline development, decision enablement, and implementation tracking.
• Leverage market, competitive, and internal data to generate insights; design and facilitate strategic workshops; and develop clear, actionable recommendations with well-articulated risks and assumptions.
• Continuously scan for and ideate on transformation and growth opportunities that can strengthen Servier’s U.S. performance and long-term position

4. CSDO Team Leadership & Culture

• Actively engage with CSDO colleagues to ensure the team operates with speed, clarity, and high standards of excellence.
• Model Servier’s tenets by demonstrating curiosity, agility, accountability, and a bias toward action.
• Support team offsites, goalsetting, and budget tracking.
•  Be a visible contributor to a collaborative, transparent, and intellectually rigorous team culture

Education and Required Skills

• Undergraduate degree with business and science focus, graduate degree (MBA, PhD) preferred
• 7+ years of professional work experience, ideally in both strategy consulting and a strategic role in the life sciences industry
• Strong learning agility with the ability to quickly develop expertise in new disease areas and business contexts
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with comfort preparing research and data analysis to support business recommendations
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complexity into crisp, executive level narratives
• Experience leading through influence and gaining alignment without authority
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including with senior leadership
• Understanding of oncology or rare disease markets, drug development, regulatory processes, and commercial and market access dynamics preferred
• Proficient with MS Office tools – particularly PowerPoint and Excel
• Track record of driving impact, surfacing risks early, and delivering high-quality work at pace

Travel and Location

• On-site in Boston Seaport office at least 2-3 times per week
• Travel ~5-10% of the time for meetings/workshops with Global, external conferences, and internal meetings/off-sites

Servier’s Commitment

Servier is committed to modeling diversity, equity, and inclusion within the industry. We are dedicated to fostering an environment that maintains equitable treatment for all and we welcome applicants who are passionate, committed, and innovative individuals. We encourage candidates to apply to our open roles as we are always willing to consider experiences and skills beyond what is listed in the job description.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $180-$210k. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. Employees in this position are also eligible for Short-Term and Long-Term incentive programs. Servier also offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes benefits such as medical, dental, vision, flexible time off (Servier provides unlimited sick time and flex time, and does not accrue time off), 401(k), life and disability insurance, recognition programs among other great benefits (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).  For more information on our benefits, please visit this link.