Head of Strategy

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Job Profile Summary:

As the Head of Strategy, you will lead PACS’s enterprise strategy function — combining foresight, commercial stress testing, KPI definition, and business planning into one integrated engine of strategic effectiveness.
You will act as a key advisor to the CSTO and CEO, shaping future growth paths, ensuring our value levers are monetizable, and defining how success is measured. Your remit includes long-term scenario thinking and near-term delivery clarity.
This is a role for a strategist who brings not only intelligence and insight — but also commercial fluency, performance mindset, and pragmatic influence.

Role Purpose and Overview

You will drive the end-to-end strategy lifecycle:

• From external sensing and internal insight
• Through strategic planning and trade-off framing
• Into commercialisation, KPI design, and optimization strategy

You will ensure that PACS’s strategy is both ambitious and executable — tied to ROI logic, stress-tested under multiple scenarios, and embedded into how we track and improve performance.

You will work closely with the Finance and Performance teams to ensure strategic KPIs are designed with purpose and monitored with discipline.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Performance Alignment:

Strategic Advisory & Commercialization Strategy:

Business Insights & Optimization:

Foresight & Market Intelligence:

Narrative & Decision Framing:

Team & Leadership:

Competencies and Behaviours Expected

Strategic and Commercial Fluency:

You bridge macro foresight with business case realism. You connect strategic ambition with economic logic and execution constraints.

Optimization & Value Thinking:

You ask not just “what should we do?” but “how do we do it better, faster, or more profitably?” You challenge the status quo with data and insight.

Performance Alignment:

You think in KPIs, not just strategy decks. You design and align success metrics that shape behaviour and outcomes.

Decision Support and Influence:

You bring options, trade-offs, and implications — enabling better choices at the top. You frame decisions with calm, sharp confidence.

Systems Thinking & Integration:

You connect dots across silos, seeing how transformation, product, distribution, and capital come together in the strategy.

Role Requirements / What You Bring to the Team

You are a business-savvy strategist with experience in driving high-stakes planning, performance alignment, and commercial growth. You balance aspiration and precision, with the ability to see the big picture and zoom in on what matters.

You are as comfortable crafting a narrative for ExCo as you are tearing apart a KPI dashboard or customer segment analysis.

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