About the Job:
The Assoc Dir, Corporate Strategy develops long-term and short-term corporate strategy consistent with FMI’s mission and vision in close collaboration with the executive team. This position is responsible for evaluating new strategic directions and growth opportunities in support of corporate strategy. Additionally, the incumbent partners across the company to integrate, embed, and align corporate strategy across all organizational levels, and may lead additional efforts within and across functions to optimize process workflows.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor industry trends, emerging market dynamics, and competitive developments and assess their potential impact on FMI's corporate strategy
- Partner with the Executive Team and senior leaders to develop, align, and communicate FMI's corporate strategy, annual objectives, key results, and strategic priorities to the company
- Monitor, analyze, and report on progress toward annual and long-term strategic objectives and key results, including planning and facilitating quarterly business reviews
- Lead the enterprise business planning process, ensuring clear alignment from corporate strategy to functional and portfolio strategies, priorities, budgets, and objectives
- Serve as an internal strategy consultant to executives and business leaders, helping define, frame, structure, and solve complex business challenges with enterprise-wide and cross-functional impact
- Lead high-priority strategic initiatives from problem definition through recommendation and implementation, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and desired business outcomes
- Facilitate executive and cross-functional discussions to drive alignment, clarify priorities, resolve issues, and accelerate decision-making
- Develop data-driven analyses, business cases, recommendations, and executive-level communications that enable informed strategic and operational decisions
- Navigate complex stakeholder environments and competing priorities to build consensus, influence outcomes, and drive execution across functions and organizational levels
- Effectively communicate and champion FMI's corporate strategy with internal and external stakeholders
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Comply with FMI's attendance policies
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree (ie. MBA, MPH, MS or other related)
- 7+ years of progressively responsible work experience in a strategy, market insights, analytic or consulting role within the biopharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, life sciences or related industry
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of therapeutic or diagnostic development and commercialization
- Knowledge of oncology industry, including external trends and issues in the global oncology landscape
- Strategy or consulting experience strongly preferred
- History of generating effective strategy resulting in optimal organizational outcomes
- Prior work experience:
- Leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives from problem definition through implementation and measurable business impact
- Conducting and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative analyses to support strategy development, business decisions, and executive recommendations
- Structuring and solving ambiguous business challenges in dynamic, matrixed organizations
- Establishing and managing senior-level stakeholder relationships across functions, levels, and external partners
- Influencing executive and organizational decision-making through data-driven insights, business cases, and strategic recommendations
- Presenting regularly to executive leadership and facilitating discussions that drive alignment, prioritization, and decision-making
- Demonstrated competencies in the following areas:
- Ability to connect market dynamics, business performance, and organizational priorities to drive effective strategic decisions
- Ability to simplify complexity, frame ambiguous issues, identify key drivers, and develop practical solutions
- Ability to build trust, navigate competing priorities, and drive outcomes across a highly matrixed organization
- Ability to distill complex information into clear, compelling recommendations tailored to senior leadership audiences
- Ability to adapt quickly, manage uncertainty, and maintain momentum while balancing multiple priorities
- Ability to lead cross-functional discussions, build consensus, resolve conflicts, and accelerate decision-making
- Ability to work well under pressure while maintaining a professional demeanor
- High level of resourcefulness in finding answers and solutions when information and data is not readily available and solving open-ended problems
- Understanding of HIPAA and the importance of patient data privacy
- Commitment to reflect FMI’s values: Integrity, Courage, and Passion
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Boston, MA is $158,400 - $198,000 per year. The salary range is commensurate with Foundation Medicine’s compensation practice and considers factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, external market conditions, criticality of role, and internal equity. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for Foundation Medicine's benefits.
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About UsSkills Required
- Master's degree, such as an MBA, MPH, MS, or related degree
- 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, market insights, analytics, or consulting within biopharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, life sciences, or a related industry
- Understanding of therapeutic or diagnostic development and commercialization
- Knowledge of the oncology industry and global oncology landscape
- Strategy or consulting experience
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives from problem definition through implementation and measurable business impact
- Experience conducting and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative analyses for strategy development and executive recommendations
- Experience solving ambiguous business challenges in dynamic, matrixed organizations
- Experience establishing and managing senior-level stakeholder relationships across functions and external partners
- Experience influencing executive decision-making through data-driven insights, business cases, and strategic recommendations
- Experience presenting to executive leadership and facilitating alignment and prioritization discussions
- Understanding of HIPAA and patient data privacy
- Commitment to FMI's values of Integrity, Courage, and Passion
Foundation Medicine Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Foundation Medicine and has not been reviewed or approved by Foundation Medicine.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses and long-term incentives are described as competitive and a meaningful component of total rewards. Annual bonuses tied to personal and company outcomes feature alongside base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical and dental coverage is a core element of the package. Health plans are positioned as robust and well-rounded rather than minimal.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings include flexible or unlimited PTO and paid parental leave, supporting work–life balance. Extra paid downtime has been referenced alongside standard PTO.
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What We Do
Foundation Medicine is a molecular information company dedicated to a transformation in cancer care in which treatment is informed by a deep understanding of the genomic changes that contribute to each patient's unique cancer. The company offers a full suite of comprehensive genomic profiling assays to identify the molecular alterations in a patient’s cancer and match them with relevant targeted therapies, immunotherapies and clinical trials. Foundation Medicine’s molecular information platform aims to improve day-to-day care for patients by serving the needs of clinicians, academic researchers and drug developers to help advance the science of molecular medicine in cancer. For more information, please visit us at www.FoundationMedicine.com or follow @FoundationATCG on Twitter. Community Guidelines: bit.ly/FMICommunityGuidelines








