Senior Director/Director, Strategic Analytics and Operations

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.   

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.   

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

The Senior Director/Director, Strategic Analytics and Operations will be on a core member of the Strategic Analytics and Operations team, a rapidly growing internal consulting group within a growing organization. The team works closely with Flagship’s CEO and Managing Partners in support of driving value throughout the organization and across our companies. This entrepreneurial role is tasked with leading and executing strategic and financial analysis in helping shape the strategy of Flagship, structuring deals and investments, and informing senior level decision making. S/he will also play an important role in driving governance and process changes at Flagship to improve operations and investment results. S/he will also need to be able to take on novel projects with limited experience but ability to learn rapidly and think flexibly. S/he will also need to think outside the box strategically to help solve a wide range of strategic questions. Last, s/he will need to have strong technical and  interpersonal skills as this role requires meaningful cross-functional interactions across a number of senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute projects to help make strategic decisions, such as picking the right corporate structure, deciding on the right investment allocation, and estimating cash needs of a emerging company.
• Build creative solutions with analytics, identify high-priority work that maximizes results for stakeholders, and solve complex problems that effect strategic decision making.
• Lead and own initiatives across Flagship to improve operations, governance and process as it relates to capital allocation decisions and business decisions.
• Use solid scientific knowledge, financial knowhow and business acumen to build models, interpret data, draw conclusions, and make recommendations that deliver results, drive improvements, and influence leaders
• Present analyses and recommendations to senior leadership.
• End-to-end management of finance and strategic projects and initiatives
• Complete ad hoc requests and perform other duties as needed with minimal oversight in a timely manner
• Prepare materials/content on key financial metrics and present to Managing Directors and Partners as required
• Modeling, analyzing, and reporting on new strategic initiatives to inform the business of challenges and potential opportunities
• Continually learn across topics related to science, finance, strategy, operations, management and others

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Finance, or Economics is preferred.
• 7-10 years of experience working in management consulting, investment banking or corporate finance within a life sciences firm.
• Strong communication, presentation, collaboration, and partnership skills, including synthesizing information for senior management and presenting financial information to a non-financial audience.
• Effective time management, organization, and prioritization skills in managing multiple projects with proven ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to work conscientiously and with minimal direction, using good judgment, taking initiative to accomplish short and long-range projects, and recommend actions with minimal direction.
• Ability to work as a team member, multi-task and be very flexible to adapt to the ever-changing work priorities and requirements of a dynamic, fast-growing company.
• A "roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial attitude.
• Strategic thinker with excellent analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving, interpersonal, and relationship building skills.
• Expertise in MS Office, both PowerPoint and Excel.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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