ED, Enterprise Business Engagement

Compensation Data

The base salary range for this position is $262,400 to $393,600. The position may be eligible for a role specific discretionary bonus, relocation, and/or other compensation elements. We continuously review market data and may adjust salary ranges as needed in the future. Actual compensation will be based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications, and other factors permitted by law. For an overview of our benefits please click here.

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides an opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and the opportunity to directly contribute to the company's success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

As an Executive Director reporting to the VP, Customer Engagement & Transformation (CE&T), this leader serves as the strategic translator and connector between Human Pharma business priorities and the full portfolio of CE&T capabilities. The role develops a deep understanding of the strategies, operating realities, customer needs, market dynamics, and performance opportunities of assigned Therapeutic Areas, brands, Value & Access, Patient Excellence, and Medicine, and determines how CE&T should engage to enable business outcomes.

The Executive Director, Enterprise Business Engagement leads Enterprise Business Engagement as the senior business-facing integration point for CE&T. The role looks beyond stated requests to anticipate emerging needs, uncover opportunities the business has not yet articulated, and shape integrated solutions that bring together the right CE&T functions, services, data, technology, and expertise. The role ensures that business stakeholders experience CE&T as a coordinated strategic partner rather than a set of disconnected capabilities.

This leader sets the strategic direction, operating model, and portfolio priorities for the Directors reporting into Enterprise Business Engagement. The role establishes how the team engages business leaders, diagnoses needs, frames opportunities, mobilizes CE&T capabilities, and stewards solutions from initial problem definition through alignment and execution readiness. The Executive Director makes enterprise-level tradeoffs across competing needs, determines which organizational levers to activate, and escalates decisions requiring VP or cross-pillar governance.

The ED, Enterprise Business Engagement applies strong working knowledge of AI, data, analytics, digital products, platforms, and technology-enabled operating models to recognize where emerging capabilities can create business value. It does not own the technical build or enterprise AI governance; instead, it translates business opportunities into clear outcomes and requirements and connects the appropriate CE&T, IT, and global partners to evaluate, prioritize, and deliver fit-for-purpose solutions.

As a senior CE&T leader, the Executive Director represents GTM Planning and Activation with business leadership, builds trusted executive relationships, and influences cross-functional priorities, investments, resourcing, and ways of working. Success requires strategic foresight, strong business acumen, executive communication, leadership through other leaders, and the ability to create clarity and coordinated action in a highly matrixed, regulated environment.

This role is based on-site at our Ridgefield, CT location with hybrid flexibility of 2-3 days per week on-site.

Duties & Responsibilities

Business Partnership, Strategic Translation & Foresight – Lead the senior business-facing interface for Enterprise Business Engagement, translating the strategies and needs of Therapeutic Areas, brands, Value & Access, Patient Excellence, and Medicine into an integrated CE&T response:

- Build and sustain trusted partnerships with business leaders, serving as a strategic advisor who understands brand, portfolio, customer, market, and organizational priorities.

- Continuously synthesize business plans, lifecycle dynamics, external trends, customer insights, and internal performance signals to anticipate needs before they become formal requests.

- Reframe stated requests into the underlying business problem, desired outcome, decision required, and value opportunity.

- Identify cross-brand, cross-TA, and enterprise patterns that can be addressed through scalable CE&T solutions rather than one-off responses.

- Advise business leaders on the CE&T levers most likely to accelerate strategy, improve decisions, reduce friction, or strengthen execution.

Integrated GTM Solution Strategy & Orchestration – Set the direction for how Enterprise Business Engagement converts business opportunities into integrated, execution-ready solutions spanning the appropriate CE&T capabilities:

- Determine the solution strategy and capability mix required across insights and analytics, AI and data, digital products and platforms, customer engagement and operations, planning, launch excellence, customer planning, training, and other relevant services.

- Create clear solution charters that define the business outcome, scope, decision rights, contributing teams, dependencies, measures, and path to execution readiness.

- Convene and align senior functional leaders across CE&T, IT, Global, and business functions to resolve tradeoffs and establish shared ownership.

- Ensure solutions are designed around enterprise standards and reusable capabilities while remaining relevant to the business context.

- Escalate portfolio, funding, architecture, capacity, or governance decisions to the appropriate executive forum with clear options and recommendations

Enterprise Business Engagement Portfolio, Demand & Value Management – Own the strategic portfolio of Enterprise Business Engagement engagements and establish disciplined prioritization across competing business needs:

- Define intake, qualification, segmentation, and prioritization principles that distinguish strategic opportunities from transactional requests.

- Maintain an enterprise view of demand, dependencies, capacity, timing, risks, and expected value across supported business areas.

- Make recommendations on sequencing and resource deployment based on enterprise priorities, business impact, urgency, readiness, and feasibility.

- Institute portfolio governance and executive decision forums that enable timely choices and transparent tradeoffs.

- Track whether intended outcomes are realized and use evidence to redirect, scale, stop, or improve solutions.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in business, life sciences, technology, analytics, or a related field preferred.

- Fifteen-plus (15+) years of progressive professional experience, with significant experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consulting, technology, or another highly regulated industry.

- Minimum five (5) years of senior leadership experience, including leading leaders and setting strategy for a multi-area or cross-functional portfolio.

- Deep commercial and business acumen, with substantial experience in brand strategy, Therapeutic Area strategy, product lifecycle management, launches, marketing, sales, market access, medical, customer strategy, or closely related disciplines.

- Proven ability to serve as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders and to influence executive decisions in a highly matrixed organization.

- Demonstrated track record of translating ambiguous business needs into clear outcomes, integrated solution strategies, and execution-ready plans.

- Proven ability to anticipate emerging business needs, identify patterns across teams or portfolios, and shape proactive enterprise solutions.

- Experience orchestrating multiple functions and capabilities, establishing decision rights, resolving complex tradeoffs, and driving shared accountability without relying on direct authority.

- Experience leading portfolio prioritization and optimization to drive value

- Strong leadership and coaching skills, including proven experience leading Director-level or comparably senior leaders and developing succession depth.

- Exceptional executive communication, storytelling, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to make complex topics clear and actionable.

- Working knowledge of AI, data, analytics, digital products, platforms, automation, and technology-enabled business models, with demonstrated ability to translate between business and technical stakeholders.

- Understanding of responsible AI, privacy, regulatory, compliance, and change-adoption considerations relevant to technology-enabled solutions in a regulated environment.

- Experience with strategic planning, design thinking, agile or iterative solution development, operating-model design, and the construction of meaningful KPIs.

- Demonstrated enterprise mindset, learning agility, sound judgment, courage to challenge constructively, and ability to lead through ambiguity and change.

- Ability to travel as required to engage business leaders, teams, and partners.

Eligibility Requirements :

- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.

- Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).

- Must be 18 years of age or older.

Additional Duties & Responsibilities:

Organizational Leadership & Capability Building – Lead Enterprise Business Engagement through Directors, setting strategic direction, leadership standards, decision rights, and consistent ways of working across business-facing teams:

- Translate the VP strategy into a clear Enterprise Business Engagement agenda, annual priorities, operating objectives, and performance expectations.

- Lead, coach, and develop Director-level leaders who own relationships and solution portfolios for specific brands, Therapeutic Areas, or business groups.

- Build succession depth and strengthen capabilities in business acumen, strategic foresight, executive consulting, solution design, portfolio management, technology fluency, and influence.

- Create a culture of enterprise thinking, constructive challenge, accountability, inclusion, learning, and outcome ownership.

- Continuously evolve the team structure, talent model, and external partner mix to meet changing business and CE&T needs.