Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Operations, France

Revolution Medicines · Paris, France

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-17
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

Revolution Medicines is a global, commercial-state oncology company dedicated to discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with RAS-addicted cancers. Leveraging its differentiated RAS(ON) tri-complex inhibitor platform, the company is advancing a broad, integrated portfolio of oral RAS(ON) inhibitors designed to directly target the active, cancer-driving state of RAS. Founded on rigorous scientific inquiry and a willingness to challenge long-held assumptions, Revolution Medicines is committed to changing the trajectory of disease for patients with RAS-addicted cancers worldwide.

Our people are united by a shared way of working: follow the science, challenge assumptions, act with urgency and hold ourselves to a high standard of rigor—all in service of patients.

The Opportunity:

Revolution Medicines is seeking a highly motivated Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Operations to design and lead the France operating model ahead of AMM. Reporting to the VP/General Manager France, this role drives cross‑functional alignment, owns governance and execution discipline, builds analytics capabilities, strengthens performance management, and ensures operational excellence across all functions in a regulated biotechnology environment. By combining Business Excellence, Sales Force Effectiveness, Transformation, Analytics, and Governance, the Senior Director Business Excellence aligns all functions around a unified strategy, ensures disciplined execution of the operating model, and serves as the primary interface with European leadership to coordinate priorities, performance, and organizational readiness.

Operating Model, Governance & Effectiveness

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Leads the design of governance, processes, roles, and decision‑making routines to ensure full organizational readiness.

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Drives execution standards, simplification, continuous improvement, and cross‑functional discipline.

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Orchestrates alignment across Commercial, Finance, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Supply, HR and Operations.

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Ensures alignment, contribution, and evolution of the Business Excellence community within Europe, strengthening cross‑market consistency and scalability.

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Leads the capture and dissemination of best practices to harmonize execution and accelerate learning.

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Leads transversal, affiliate-wide projects within the governance framework—such as the budget process, country reviews, and other company priorities—coordinating stakeholders, milestones, decisions, and follow-through. Shapes capability-building and training plans to support adoption of new processes and operating-model maturity, and leads sales force sizing to ensure field capacity, deployment, and resource allocation remain aligned with strategic priorities and performance needs.

Strategic Business Partner & Management

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Acts as strategic advisor to the General Manager and Leadership Team, providing insights, decision support, and forward‑looking recommendations.

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Translates data, performance signals, and operational insights into strategic choices.

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Ensures company alignment between strategy, execution, and organizational priorities.

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Brings an independent, analytical, cross‑functional perspective to LT discussions and GM decisions.

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People Leadership & Capability Building

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Leads, coaches and develops direct reports, fostering an inclusive, high-performing and collaborative team environment.

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Builds capabilities, supports succession and development planning, and enables teams to adopt new processes, tools and ways of working.

Governance, Risk & Operational Effectiveness

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Establishes governance routines, decision-making processes and execution standards that support consistent, effective delivery across the affiliate.

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Fosters adherence to applicable SOPs and promotional and non-promotional requirements, working closely with the Compliance Officer to embed them into operational workflows.

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Identifies operational risks, supports appropriate mitigation and escalates matters to the relevant owners, in close partnership with the Compliance Officer and other functions.

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Coordinates operational readiness for internal and external audits in partnership with Finance, Legal, Quality and the Compliance Officer.

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Orchestrates the full planning cycle (budget, forecasting, strategic planning, business reviews, risk management) to ensure alignment, discipline, and predictable performance.

Enterprise Analytics & Performance

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Builds KPIs, dashboards, and performance tools for visibility and decision‑making.

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Develops AI‑enhanced data repositories, predictive models, and automated analytics pipelines.

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Delivers demand, patient, and scenario forecasts to support planning and launch readiness.

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Establishes monitoring frameworks that support efficiency, operational effectiveness and predictable performance.

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Automates manual processes, strengthens data reliability, and improves operational efficiency.

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