Associate Director, Business Improvement
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- $171k–$260k
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Telix Pharmaceuticals is a dynamic, fast-growing radiopharmaceutical company with offices in Australia (HQ), Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Our mission is to deliver on the promise of precision medicine through targeted radiation. At our core, we exist to create products that seek to improve the quality of life for people living with cancer and rare diseases. You will be supporting the international roll-out of our approved prostate cancer imaging agent and helping us to advance our portfolio of late clinical-stage products that address significant unmet need in oncology and rare diseases.
See Yourself at Telix
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