Key Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Execution & Business Alignment:

- Convert CMD's vision into structured plans with clear milestones, owners, and timelines.

- Ensure all departments and portfolio companies align to CMD's quarterly and annual priorities.

- Enable faster decision-making by summarizing trade-offs, scenarios, and implications.

- Track progress on all strategic initiatives and identify risks early.

2. CMD's Agenda Ownership:

- Establish CMD's annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly agenda.

- Drive what CMD should focus on-based on business needs, opportunity, and risk.

- Filter and prioritize what reaches CMD; protect his time.

- Ensure CMD has the right intelligence before every meeting.

3. Portfolio Company Oversight:

- Maintain a complete overview of all businesses CMD is involved in.

- Track major initiatives, capex, R&D, regulatory matters, BD, M&A, and operations.

- Ensure senior leadership across each company is aligned, accountable, and delivering.

- Facilitate cross-company synergy and information flow.

4. MIS, Analytics & Performance Tracking:

- Build CMD's master dashboard covering all businesses, KPIs, and projects.

- Monitor operational, financial, regulatory, and strategic metrics.

- Provide weekly analytical reports highlighting red flags, insights, and recommended focus areas.

- Ensure CMD always has up-to-date, accurate data.

5. Meeting Leadership & Communication:

- Own the entire lifecycle of CMD's meetings (agenda - prep - outcomes - follow-up).

- Ensure meetings end with decisions, owners, deadlines, and clarity.

- Hold stakeholders accountable for implementation.

- Capture nuances, unspoken tension points, and strategic implications.

6. Decision Support & Research:

- Conduct deep research across markets, competitors, regulatory shifts, and macro trends.

- Prepare concise briefing notes to help CMD take informed decisions quickly.

- Analyze business proposals, investment decks, acquisitions, and new initiatives.

- Convert complex reports into crisp insights.

7. Leadership Coordination & Accountability:

- Serve as the primary bridge between CMD and CXOs/senior leaders.

- Track commitments made by leadership and ensure timely execution.

- Provide leaders with clarity on expectations and follow through on outcomes.

- Maintain organizational discipline in communication and cadence.

8. Operational Efficiency & Problem Solving:

- Identify inefficiencies across functions and propose corrective frameworks.

- Resolve bottlenecks before they reach CMD.

- Improve workflows, communication systems, and internal processes.

- Create playbooks, templates, SOPs, and structure where needed.

9. Personal Operating System for CMD:

- Ensure CMD's working bandwidth is optimized at all times.

- Pre-read, summarize, and prepare materials so CMD walks into every meeting fully armed.

- Create structure around emails, information flow, and decision cycles.

- Anticipate needs rather than react to them.

10. Confidential Advisory Partner:

- Serve as a sounding board for sensitive decisions.

- Handle confidential information with absolute discretion.

- Maintain the highest level of judgment, loyalty, and professionalism.

The Successful Applicant:

- Strong academic background from top tier universities, preferably in life sciences or Management.

- 7-15 years in Strategy, Consulting, CXO-office roles, CoS, or senior program management.

- Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder, fast-moving environments is essential.

- Proven experience in the consulting and pharmaceutical industry.

- Exceptional organizational and project management skills.

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

- A proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges