Director Strategy - Academic/Research

Location:

Work from home (Pennsylvania)

Shift:

Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Worker Type:

Regular

Exemption Status:

Yes

Job Summary:

This role serves as the enterprise strategy lead embedded with a designated business unit, operating through a dotted‑line partnership with business unit executive leadership. The Director is accountable for shaping strategy, translating enterprise direction into actionable plans, and supporting disciplined execution—while maintaining alignment with enterprise priorities, standards, and governance through the Enterprise Strategy Office. The role balances deep business‑unit partnership with an enterprise perspective, ensuring strategies are decision‑oriented, integrated across the system, and supported by clear plans, metrics, and execution follow‑through.

Job Duties:

• Partner with business unit leaders to frame critical strategic questions and develop clear strategic direction aligned to enterprise priorities. Shape and recommend strategic choices, priorities, and tradeoffs informed by enterprise context, knowledge of the current business environment, and informed perspectives on future state opportunities and pressures.
• Translate approved strategy into multi‑year and annual plans, including priorities, targets, sequencing, and resource implications. Support development and pressure‑testing of business cases and investment theses in partnership with Finance and operational leaders. Ensure alignment with enterprise planning cadence, capital guardrails, and governance.
• Surface cross‑business dependencies, risks, and sequencing challenges. Coordinate with other BU‑aligned Strategy Directors and the ACSO to resolve enterprise‑level tradeoffs. Maintain enterprise perspective while operating in close partnership with BU leadership.
• Define key analytic and insight questions required to inform strategic decisions. Partner with Strategic Insights to translate analysis into decision‑ready options, implications, and risks. Conduct independent future-sensing to stay ahead of environmental opportunities and pressures.
• Provide hands‑on strategic support for a portfolio of enterprise‑critical initiatives within the business unit. Partner with Strategic Initiatives to clarify scope, milestones, and dependencies. Build BU capability through shared tools, templates, and decision frameworks.
• Support routine strategic performance reviews; use performance insights to drive decisions and corrective actions. Signal when strategy adjustment or reprioritization may be required.
• Lead executive strategy and working sessions and cross‑functional forums. Develop clear, concise executive‑ready narratives, decision memos, and presentation materials. Build alignment and momentum from strategy through execution.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

Position Details:

Education:

Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years-Managerial/Supervisory (Required), Minimum of 7 years-Related work experience (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s):

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Business Analysis, Computer Literacy, Critical Thinking, Interpersonal Communication, Market Research

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family. 

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all.  We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.