Senior Manager, Special Projects - Business Insights & Operations (BI&O)
Biogen
About This Role:
As the Senior Manager, Special Projects within the Business Insights & Operations (BI&O) team, you will play a pivotal role in driving Biogen North America’s largest organization towards its transformation agenda. Reporting directly to the Head of Strategy & Operations, your mission is to lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives that enhance BI&O's engagement with Therapeutic Areas (TAs), bolster operating cadence, and support launch readiness. You will be responsible for translating ambiguous priorities into actionable plans, building alignment swiftly, and ensuring that strategic decisions are made through a structured and disciplined operating rhythm. This role requires a detail-oriented, consulting-trained operator who thrives in fast-paced, matrixed environments and can handle complex, multi-faceted projects with precision and clarity.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead high-priority initiatives across BI&O’s transformation agenda, translating leadership direction into clear workstreams.
- Own select workstreams end-to-end, ensuring stakeholder alignment and successful delivery.
- Bring structured problem-solving approaches to complex priorities, creating decision trees and actionable recommendations.
- Design and operationalize BI&O’s TA engagement model, fostering cross-functional partnerships and accelerating execution.
- Build and maintain a tight operating rhythm for leadership priorities, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Support BI&O’s AI enablement agenda, coordinating pilots and driving stakeholder adoption.
- Drive cross-functional launch readiness workstreams, tracking key milestones and dependencies.
- Produce executive-ready materials that communicate clearly and drive decision-making.
Who You Are:
You are a strategic thinker with a knack for execution, thriving in environments that require both analytical rigor and excellent communication. You excel in building relationships across teams and enjoy the challenge of turning strategic priorities into operational realities. Your high ownership mindset and strong judgment allow you to navigate ambiguity with ease, and you possess the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise recommendations. You are passionate about driving transformation and are ready to make a significant impact within a dynamic and evolving organization.
Required Skills:
- 4+ years of experience in strategy, operations, or program management in matrixed environments, with a preference for top-tier consulting experience.
- Strong program/project management skills with the ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including writing and synthesis.
- Proven ability to establish and maintain structured operating rhythms.
- Comfort with data analytics and KPI framing, without needing deep technical expertise.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA highly preferred.
- Hybrid work expectation: Cambridge, MA – in-office approximately 3 days/week.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in AI enablement and digital transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with launch readiness processes in a commercial setting.
- Strong understanding of cross-functional team dynamics and stakeholder engagement.
Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.