Sr. Director, Business Support Strategy
About The Position
Looking to join a passionate team dedicated to developing and manufacturing life-saving biopharmaceuticals? Avid Bioservices is a leading clinical and commercial biologics CDMO focused on creating innovative solutions to meet the needs of our clients and improve patient outcomes. Your Role: The Sr. Director, Business Support Strategy is a senior, hands-on strategic Business Support role that partners directly with the Chief Business Officer (CBO) and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to shape decisions and lead critical initiatives across the Avid Bioservices organization. This role blends executive advisory with rigorous, hands-on execution, turning insight into action to accelerate value creation.
Requirements
- Strategic Thinking & Judgment: Systems thinker who connects strategy, operations, and financial outcomes; challenges assumptions and offers independent, evidence-based viewpoints.
- Partnership Builder and Stakeholder Management: Earns trust quickly; operates with discretion, credibility, and calm under pressure across cultures and geographies.
- Communication & Storytelling: Distills complexity into clear choices and trade-offs; produces compelling, executive-ready materials.
- Project Leadership & Delivery: Hands-on leader with a bias to action; adept at PMO-lite governance, stage-gate discipline, and change leadership.
- Analytical Rigor & Problem Solving: Comfortable with ambiguity; frames problems, designs options, and drives decisions efficiently.
- Integrity & Resilience: Upholds confidentiality and ethics; maintains resilience in dynamic, high-stakes environments.
- Undergraduate degree and Advanced degree in business or finance, or similar
- 15+ years of experience in mgmt. consulting or similar fast paced professional services environment
- Experience working directly with C-suite level stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with CDMO strongly preferred
- Experience crafting BOD-facing or external-facing materials on critical business topics
- Experience leading analysis of site acquisitions, dispositions, or expansions
Responsibilities
- Strategic Project Feasibility, Analysis & Solution Design
- Provide detailed yet usable analysis and recommendations relating to strategic ad-hoc business opportunities.
- Build dynamic business case models (scenario/sensitivity), stress-test assumptions, and design implementation roadmaps.
- Under CBO direction, drive M&A (investment and/or divestments) analyses, due diligence, synergy modeling, planning, and execution.
- Coordinate external advisors and internal stakeholders to deliver outcomes for key strategic initiatives; manage workplans, risks, and interdependencies.
- CBO Advisory & Executive Decision Support
- Build high-quality Board of Directors, IR, and FH executive-level presentations, decision packs, narratives, scenarios, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations.
- Coordinate across ELT to ensure cohesive presentation materials and messaging
- Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations for the CBO, ELT, and other decision-makers.
- Elevate communication quality with crisp storylines, visual clarity, and executive-ready materials; manage pre-reads, and support/deliver ELT briefings.
- Business Support Strategy Development & Execution
- Support the CBO on shaping the multi-year strategies, aligned with the CEO defined corporate strategy and Avid Bioservices priorities (growth, capacity, returns).
- Business Partner to Finance, Commercial, and Operations teams to ensure data integrity and decision-grade insights.
Benefits
- health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- opportunities for career growth and development
- supportive and inclusive work environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
