Job Description
About the role
Responsible for developing and delivering strategic and cross-functional business planning to ensure key activities and resources are appropriately directed towards achievement of CEPI’s business priorities and strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Develop actionable strategic plans that integrate objectives, milestones and deliverables across different departments and workstreams.
- Track and report progress of delivery against plans, and highlight issues, risks and areas requiring resolution and/or replanning.
- Ensure ongoing alignment between strategy plan, organisational priorities and department plans and facilitate knowledge management by capturing best practices and lessons learned throughout CEPI’s business cycle.
- Ensure a strong annual planning process where planning, budget, operations, resourcing and risk management activities are integrated.
- Maintain alignment between CEPI’s long-term strategic planning activities and CEPI’s annual planning and monitoring process, to ensure business priorities enable achievement of long-term strategic goals.
- Support the preparation and delivery of internal or external planning meetings and events, including; drafting and finalizing of formal communications including emails, letters, surveys etc. to external and internal parties, supporting the preparation of documents and presentations, supporting the tracking and analysis of decisions and their implementation.
- Evolve processes, systems and tools supporting strategic and business planning.
Education, Experience and Competence
- 1-3 years experience in business and/or strategic planning, ideally in an R&D setting (including industry, global health or management consultancy.
- Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication abilities.
- Knowledge of planning methodologies and tools.
- Able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks with strong attention to details while meeting deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable with senior executives and stakeholders.
- Proactive and can-do attitude, takes accountability for delivery.
- High degree of integrity and confidentiality.
- Essential: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in life sciences, economics, business administration or relevant subject.
- Essential: Proficient in MS Office and comfortable with applying new IT tools across tasks.
- Essential: Experience in business planning approaches.
- Strong written and verbal English language skills.
- Ability to adapt and work within a multicultural, multidisciplinary environment.
Travel and Location Requirements
- Position based in either London, UK, or Oslo, Norway.
- Travel to other CEPI offices as assigned.
What we can offer you
- The opportunity to work together with leading experts on solutions for global challenges
- Experience from the international effort on developing vaccines against emerging infectious diseases and accelerating vaccine development response to outbreaks
- A diverse and inclusive working environment
How to apply
- For more information on how to apply, please visit: https://cepisites.secure.force.com/careers
- Should you have any issues submitting your application or have questions please contact jobs@cepi.net
- Deadline is July 4 2021 at 23:59 CET
About the Organization
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a global organisation with a mission to stimulate and accelerate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases and enable access to these vaccines for people during outbreaks. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CEPI has taken a leading role investing in multiple diverse COVID-19 vaccine candidates and co-leading COVAX alongside Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization to develop, manufacture and equitably deliver 2 billion doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2021 to end the acute phase of the pandemic.
