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This Sr. Director, Brand Product Strategy serves as a senior individual contributor within the North America Pharmaceutical Distribution Strategy function, supporting the Brand Sourcing & Manufacturer Relations (BSMR) segment. The BSMR segment oversees the strategic, financial, and operational aspects of distribution relationships with manufacturers of branded pharmaceuticals across the Full Line Wholesale (FLW) and Specialty Distribution (SD) channels. Reporting to the VP, Product Strategy & Strategic Initiatives, the role operates as a key strategic partner to segment leadership, owning and leading defined workstreams and strategic sub‑areas, shaping insights, framing decisions, and driving progress in close partnership with business and functional leaders. The position is a highly hands‑on role that requires strong judgment in stakeholder engagement and a commitment to developing strategy collaboratively. Success is defined by the ability to translate complex dynamics into actionable decisions, build credibility with partners, and ensure strategic work leads to practical, executable outcomes.

Location: The role offers flexibility across the United States. Candidates based in the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) area will be hired in a hybrid capacity and are expected to work onsite at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in‑office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.

Lead strategic initiatives end-to-end—from problem definition and work‑plan design through analysis, recommendation development, syndication, and hand‑off to execution owners. Structure ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses and decision paths; insist on logical rigor and evidence. Develop recommendations that reflect genuine choices with explicit trade‑offs and that are grounded in the financial architecture of the relevant market. Prepare and run productive problem‑solving sessions with business partners; engage stakeholders in joint problem solving rather than delivering conclusions to them.

Serve as a knowledgeable resource on the financial architecture of the pharmaceutical value chain—how manufacturers, distributors, PBMs, payers, and pharmacies generate and protect economic value, and how those mechanisms are being repriced. Assess manufacturer go‑to‑market and commercialization needs, including launch strategy, market access strategy and new capabilities required to support new product launches. Direct and quality‑control the financial models built by the team; ensure every significant analysis identifies the assumptions that matter most and translates market shifts into quantified P&L implications. Analyze the value‑chain second‑order financial and competitive consequences of legislative and regulatory developments, and contribute to scenario analysis of vertical integration, direct channel development, and disintermediation moves.

Act as a credible thought partner to business leaders within the scope of assigned initiatives; challenge assumptions constructively and surface inconvenient facts early. Understand the organization’s culture and individual stakeholder perspectives, and consider them in crafting recommendations that the business can actually execute. Develop thoughtful plans to engage stakeholders through the process—from fact‑finding to solution development—to build alignment as the work proceeds.

Deliver compelling written and oral communications to senior business audiences; lead with key messages, present persuasively and with conviction, and tailor materials to the audience. Ask powerful, open‑ended questions; actively listen and respond to nuance and mood in senior settings.

Partner with and direct teams of one to three Senior Managers and analysts per initiative; scope work realistically against team capacity and deliver high‑quality output without undue crunch. Coach team members in a strengths‑based way; provide insightful, timely feedback and shape step‑up opportunities that stretch colleagues. Contribute to a positive, inclusive team climate and to function‑building efforts including recruiting and knowledge development.

Translate approved recommendations into implementation roadmaps with clear owners, milestones, and metrics; support transformation programs through their early execution phases. Create feedback loops that surface early execution signals back into the strategic logic.

10+ years of progressive experience in strategy, including engagement‑leadership experience at a top‑tier strategy consulting firm or equivalent leadership experience in pharmaceutical strategy or market access. Demonstrated ability to build working fluency in policy and complex value‑chain economics quickly. Track record of leading cross‑functional strategic projects end‑to‑end that resulted in concrete decisions and measurable action. Demonstrated ability to lead and develop small analytical teams. Executive presence and demonstrated effectiveness presenting to and influencing senior leaders.

• Structures problems soundly using core problem‑solving disciplines; translates ambiguity into hypotheses, work‑plans, and decision paths; embraces qualitative, people, and relationship‑based problem solving alongside the quantitative.

• Possesses working knowledge of pharmaceutical value chain economics—distribution margin structures, sourcing dynamics, PBM and payer economics, and pharmacy P&Ls—and applies it as a core analytical lens.

• Synthesizes complete sets of implications into well‑syndicated recommendations framed as genuine choices with explicit trade‑offs; controls quality and process across the initiative.

• Challenges stakeholder and team assumptions constructively; brings new insights; is developing trust‑based relationships that make challenge welcome rather than resisted.

• Coaches team members in a strengths‑based way, solicits feedback, and creates the conditions for high performance and team health.

• Prepares well‑structured documents with minimal guidance; presents well to audiences of all sizes; fosters constructive dialogue and balances asking with telling.

• Experience in healthcare and/or pharmaceutical services.
• Experience in pharmaceutical distribution buy‑side and/or market access/trade strategy preferred.
• Experience with pharmaceutical market analysis tools such as IQVIA, Evaluate preferred.

General office demands. Must have the ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Candidate within a 50-mile radius of Irving, TX will be required to be onsite in Irving, TX 2 days per week.

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