Associate Director, Business Improvement

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The Associate Director Business Improvement is a senior individual contributor role within the Business Improvement Office, serving as the enterprise lead for a portfolio of high-impact strategic, operational, and business development initiatives across Telix globally. Operating as a recognized expert and trusted advisor to the Business Unit and functional leadership, this role owns the strategy, governance, and value realization of the Business Improvement portfolio.

This role leads through influence, expertise, and executive credibility, setting direction for complex, multi-workstream programs, shaping investment and prioritization decisions, and holding senior stakeholders accountable for delivery against strategic objectives. The role is accountable for translating enterprise ambiguity into clear direction and for ensuring the portfolio delivers measurable, material impact on business performance.

Key Accountabilities:

Portfolio Oversight & Governance

• Lead execution of a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities across functions, long-term objectives and value delivery.
• Manage the day-to-day execution of assigned business improvement initiatives, ensuring activities stay on schedule, in scope, and aligned to agreed objectives.
• Identify risks, issues, and dependencies early, and escalate to leadership with recommended options.
• Establish and maintain governance structures, tracking mechanisms, and decision frameworks across initiatives.
• Ensure clear prioritization, sequencing, and trade-off decisions across competing initiatives.
• Hold initiative owners accountable for delivery, outcomes, and alignment to strategic objectives. 

Strategic Leadership & Business Direction

• Serve as a sparring partner to BU leadership, to help execute priorities and investment decisions
• Synthesize inputs across initiatives into enterprise-level insights, risks, and recommendations for executive leadership.
• Lead the creation of executive-ready materials to board, BU leadership and functional leaders
• Facilitate decision-making forums, ensuring clarity, alignment, and follow-through.
• Provide challenge and perspective to leadership to improve decision quality and organizational focus. 

Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment

• Drive alignment across Business Units and key functions (R&D, Sales, Finance, IT, etc.)
• Influence senior stakeholders through structured problem solving, data-driven insights, and strong executive presence.
• Resolve cross-functional conflicts, remove barriers, and enable progress across complex, interdependent workstreams.
• Prepare project updates, dashboards, and summaries for review by leadership 

Operational Excellence & Capability Building

• Build organizational capability and analytical rigor across Telix
• Be a part of talent bench to augment key role gaps across the organization

Education & Experience

• Master’s or higher in STEM or business-related field and 2+ years of Management Consulting, Investment Banking, PE/VC or internal advisory experience; or Bachelor’s in STEM or business-related field with 6+ years of experience in analytical, strategy, operations, project management, or business improvement roles
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, matrixed environment with cross-functional and cross-BU stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple complex initiatives and guiding work across cross‑functional resources
• Strong analytical and finance capabilities, including proficiency in MS Office to synthesize quantitative and qualitative inputs into executive-level presentations
• Experience conducting primary and secondary research, data analysis, and documentation to support business cases, operational improvements, and decision-making.
• Proven ability to operate with limited direction, manage ambiguity, and influence outcomes through structured thinking and collaboration
• Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare, or MedTech preferred 

Skills

• Strong business and financial acumen, including the ability to interpret P&L statements and assess financial impacts
• Ability to create financial statements and NPV models for business cases as well as M&A and strategic partnerships
• Analytical skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize insights.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills suitable for leadership audiences
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Comfortable working with ambiguity evolving scope and competing priorities
• Project management, executive-level presentations and financial modeling

Key Capabilities:

• Senior Ownership – Oriented – Takes accountability for outcomes across multiple initiatives and follows through to completion
• Analytical & Detail – Focused – Produces and reviews high‑quality analysis that supports sound, defensible decision‑making
• Clear Communicator – Translates complex topics into clear, structured, and decision‑focused updates
• Adaptable – Adjusts approach as priorities, scope, and business needs evolve
• Collaborative – Works effectively across teams while maintaining clear role boundaries and accountability
• Domestical travel up to 25%