Senior Manager, Strategy, Planning, and Management, HIV/TB R&D

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team
Our Global Health (GH) division harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. We focus on the health problems that have a major impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where tools exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery. Where they don't, we invest in research and development of new interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Our work in infectious diseases focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis (TB), neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases, pneumonia and maternal, newborn and child health.

Our TB and HIV work is combined under a joint TB/HIV Program Strategy Team (PST) which focuses on research, development and delivery of new products and tools.

We focus our HIV efforts on some of the countries hardest hit by HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly in populations at greatest risk of infection, including adolescent girls and young women. While treatment scale-up has led to significant declines in new infections and mortality, the rate is not rapid enough to reach globally agreed targets and there remains a persistently high incidence and mortality in several countries in SSA. The HIV team's strategic vision is to accelerate the reduction in the incidence of HIV infection in high-burden geographies and populations, with a focus on the development of new and affordable prevention and treatment interventions, including long-acting drugs, vaccines and biologics, and to enable their effective use.

The foundation's TB team aims to address key gaps along the TB care pathway through new approaches to protecting against infection, preventing progression from infection to disease, and improving diagnosis and treatment. Our efforts are diversified based on the understanding that vaccines, diagnostics, drugs, and improved care delivery are all essential to addressing the TB epidemic.

Your Role

The Senior Manager partners primarily with Directors and Deputy Directors (DDs) to drive strategy and execution across the team. This leader develops decision frameworks and conducts qualitative and quantitative analyses to inform strategic choices, then translates insights into coordinated implementation. You will co-create materials for annual planning and strategy reviews, co-chair learning sessions, and synthesize findings into clear recommendations.

Reporting to the Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning & Management (DDSPM), this Seattle-based role supports the TB&HIV R&D team, ensuring high-quality, on-time execution.

What You'll Do

Strategy Development & Implementation

• Provide the DDSPM and leadership team with clear, challenging thought partnership; enable the development coherent strategies, represent the R&D team and the Strategy, Planning & Management (SPM) function across division- and foundation-level forums as needed.
• Design and implement strategies for the R&D team in close collaboration with the DDSPM and Leadership Team.
• Lead and support components of Strategy Review & Annual Planning process.
• Translate goals into a coherent, prioritized portfolio and investment plans and narrative.
• Strengthen consistency, rigor, evaluation, and learning across investment portfolios.
• Support

Program Management & Planning

• Design and facilitate key management processes (annual planning and budgeting, business performance measurement, scorecard management, resource allocation).
• Lead large and/or complex projects supporting strategy development, resource allocation (financial and staffing), investment management, and performance management.
• Establish and implement work plans; monitor achievements and decisions; lead partner communications.
• Ensure alignment across strategy deliverables, portfolio planning, budget, and headcount requirements.
• Partner with GH SPM to enable successful cross-division efforts.
• Support the development for content for strategic conversation with leadership via presentations.

People Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of Senior Program Coordinators facilitating grant-making.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure effective coordination and execution of grant coordination activities.
• Improve team efficiency by leading process design, tool implementation, analysis, reporting, and change management.
• Set meeting cadence and agendas; facilitate for cross-portfolio learning, decision-making, and clear communication.
• Foster diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices; seek input from and value the uniqueness of people across groups and cultures; challenge exclusionary practices or policies.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Business Operations

• Design and leadds special projects that support team operations and programmatic portfolios.
• Support and optimize business processes, including investment management with the help of AI
• Maintain alignment with cross-foundation operational initiatives and integrate team processes to maximize impact.
• Serve as primary liaison to FP&A, Grants & Contracts Services, and Legal on business processes, financial reporting, forecasting, and related systems/tools.

Your Experience

We are looking for individuals who enjoy working on complex problems and collectively creating solutions. You must be prepared to work with flexibility, efficiency and diplomacy in an exciting and challenging environment.

• Master's degree or equivalent experience (e.g., business administration or related field).
• Significant experience leading projects in a top-tier strategy consulting environment or equivalent role.
• Experience in global health/development.
• Experience in product development portfolio management
• Mastery of strategy development and end-to-end complex project management (process design, team structures, critical thinking, executive communications, senior stakeholder engagement).
• Track record of inclusive leadership and team building, with a commitment to developing team to be high performers.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills; able to synthesize for diverse audiences and influence senior leadership.
• Literacy in global health product development
• Confirmed portfolio, people, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated rigor, outcomes-focused measurement, and cost-effective use of resources.
• Ability to operate autonomously, adapt to change, and choose appropriate methods and procedures.
• Facility with creating structures and frameworks that clarify decisions, trade-offs, and implications for financial and organizational resources.
• Ability to alternate between critical thinking and high-quality execution.
• Financial acumen, including budget development, financial analysis, and operational management.
• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.
• Cultural agility across a wide range of settings; demonstrates culturally sensitive behavior.
• Commitment to the foundation's values, mission, and guiding principles; holds self to the highest ethical standards.

**Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

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The salary range for this role is $186,400 to $288,800 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The salary range for this role in these locations is $203,100 to $314,900 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hire salaries are typically between the salary range minimum and midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion - of voices, ideas, and approaches - and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.