Senior Strategic Planning Manager
Company: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Location: Brookline
Posted on: May 14, 2022
Job Description:
The Senior Strategic Planning Manager supports Institute
leadership planning and decision-making regarding the company's
most critical business issues and strategic priorities.The Senior
Strategic Planning Manager leads the process of facilitating
Institute leadership decision making regarding key research,
clinical, and operational planning issues, providing leaders with
in-depth analysis of various options and frameworks to support
decision making. May work independently or in partnership with a
Director or Senior Director within SOE and may lead small to
medium-sized project teams.Located in Boston and the surrounding
communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings together world
renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated
professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer,
HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people
with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we
provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all
ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate
tomorrow's physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved
members of our community; and we work with amazing partners,
including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
- Leads or supports Institute and department level planning
through activities such as: scenario planning, environmental
evaluations, financial assessments, contingency planning, visioning
sessions, and focused 'deep-dive' analysis of various strategic
topics.
- Serves as a team lead working simultaneously on multiple
projects of moderate to high complexity.
- Manages all aspects of client relationships throughout the
project lifecycle, including project initiation, execution and
closeout.
- Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams and interacts
independently with staff, mid-level, and executive leaders
throughout the organization (including C-Suite).
- Leads the conduct and synthesis of stakeholder interviews and
engages in other research methods to gather information relevant to
assigned projects (quantitative and qualitative, internal and
market related).
- Develops clear and effective meeting materials, presentations,
and project collateral. Supports the design, development, delivery
and management of project/change related communications.
- Identifies and highlights likely business and financial impacts
associated with program planning or expansion, as well as required
implementation dependencies, issues, and risks to serve as input to
prioritization and planning process.
- Develops and manages project work plans and status dashboards,
coordinating with other departments and identifying/mitigating
potential risks and issues.
- Conducts impact analyses to assess Institutional/stakeholder
readiness for change adoption and applies change management
processes and tools to support adoption of change.
- Ensures transfer of knowledge and responsibilities to owning
operational areas prior to close-out of projects.
- Contributes to SOE staff development, as well as internal
departmental process and performance improvement.
- Utilizes and continues to improve and refine a standard set of
strategy development, consulting and business planning tools.
- Assist Sr. Director with budget development and oversight of
select strategic plan research
- Bachelor's degree required; relevant Master's degree strongly
preferred (MBA, MPH, MHA, MSW).
- 5+ years of experience in strategic planning, business
planning, consulting, project management, healthcare administration
or similar field required.ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND
ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Deep knowledge of strategic planning, change management, and
consulting practices, as well as experience within the healthcare,
pharma, or academia; experience working with faculty a plus.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to
deliver presentations to a wide variety of audiences -up to and
including executive level and C-Suite executives.
- Identify analyses for projects and develop complex analytic and
quantitative frameworks/models to assess the feasibility of new
opportunities, analyze financial and operational performance, and
support decision-making by senior leadership
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex and consensus driven
environments to facilitate decision making.
- Ability to navigate challenging interpersonal dynamics and
facilitate through difficult conversations towards resolution.
- Expert level organizational and time management skills,
including the ability to work independently and prioritize multiple
projects and assignments.
- Ability to convert client needs into strategic planning
frameworks and analyses, providing guidance and thought partnership
to internal stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to provide effective coaching and
mentoring to peers and team members.
- Role-model results-orientation, teamwork, communication, and
interpersonal skills to other members of team.
- Ability to effectively design and facilitate large
meetings.
- Ability to deal effectively with highly ambiguous and evolving
situations while exhibiting calm presence to stakeholders and team
members.
- Models and encourages high level of attention to detail and a
commitment to producing high-quality results.Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of
every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or
expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic
information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected
veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.
Keywords: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brookline , Senior Strategic Planning Manager, Executive , Brookline, Massachusetts
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