M3 is the global leader in digital solutions in healthcare. We work with a range of sectors including healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and charities; services provided to these sectors include market research, medical education programs, promotional programs, clinical development, job recruitment and clinic appointment services. M3 has grown by more than 20% year-on-year for the past 15 years, achieving over 1 billion dollars in revenue annually.
Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3's mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs. Key achievements of M3 Inc. include:
- Named in Fortune's 2020 'Future 50' list, ahead of Facebook and Amazon
- Ranked in Forbes' 2020 Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies
- M3 is the only company incorporated after the year 2000 to be included in the Nikkei 225 Index
- Listed in Forbes' 'Asia's 200 Best Over a Billion' in 2019
- In 2020 M3 founded the 'M3: Stop COVID-19 Fund' and pledged one billion yen to support COVID-19 related initiatives
M3's legacy lies in the power of trusted physician platforms. Around the world, M3 organizations leverage these highly engaged digital communities to deliver medical education, job placement, and market research, to improve global patient outcomes.
Due to our continued growth, we are hiring for a Director of Strategic Planning at M3 Global Research, an M3 company.
About the Business Unit:
M3 Global Research, part of M3 Inc., provides the most comprehensive and highest quality market research recruitment and support services available to the industry with relationships reaching respondents in more than 70 countries worldwide.
M3 Global Research maintains ISO 20252 and 27001 certifications with the highest quality data collection and project management capabilities that cover the spectrum of quantitative and qualitative techniques utilized today. M3 services incorporate all of the most advanced statistical and attitudinal methodologies allowing clients to provide world-class offerings and support services to their end-client customers throughout multiple industry sectors.
Job Description
The Mission:
The mission of the Director of Strategic Planning is to identify and manage a pipeline of business strategy projects designed to deliver positive, measurable, and sustained business outcomes. This role has opportunity to touch every part of the business, map out business drivers, and contribute actively to and facilitate strategic and growth planning, including modeling scenarios and tracking results. This role will be deeply involved in setting the company's direction and ensuring leadership is working effectively to exceed goals.
- Manage a portfolio of highly visible strategic projects, working cross-functionally to structure problems, analyze opportunities, develop solutions, implement, and measure outcomes.
- Develop strategic and business cases working successfully with cross-functional teams outlining business opportunity, rationale, and implementation plans to achieve the vision for the opportunity including product and business models and operational strategies
- Provide recommendations to the business through analytics and market research as required
- Drive and manage the administration, operational, and communication cadence, measure and track critical KPIs, including ROI staff investment and timelines, and regularly present to an executive leadership audience
- Responsible to uncover areas within the business to drive performance improvements to unlock productivity and accelerate implementation
- Responsible for managing change communication and training across many initiatives essential to operationalizing goals and objectives
- Work with cross-functional teams to prioritize and implement on growth opportunities
- Implement evidence-based decision making, apply thoughtful analytics to business opportunities, and identify success metrics / develop reporting to track progress against goals
- Hold executive leadership accountable to measure gains during review and evaluation of plans.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience driving large and complex initiatives from framing the problem, conducting research/analysis to building the business and operational plans through to driving implementation to success.
- Experience with strategy development and financial planning and modeling.
- Strong leadership, analytical and financial skills to solve complex business problems.
- Self-starter who enjoys working in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative high-growth environment.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with Executive level communication experience
- Experience in growing and scaling businesses-- either in a startup or big company context.
- Get-it-done attitude and approach.
- Strong attention to detail and project management skills.
Additional Information
Benefits:
A career opportunity with M3USA offers competitive wages, and benefits such as:
- Health and Dental
- Life, Accident and Disability Insurance
- Prescription Plan
- Flexible Spending Account
- 401k Plan and Match
- Paid Holidays and Vacation
- Sick Days and Personal Day
*M3 reserves the right to change this job description to meet the business needs of the organization