Strategic Planning Director Cover Letter

I would like to submit my application for the strategic planning director opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for modeling business cases involving strategic M&A in product line space and managing integration of M&A transactions.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Willingness to travel to various meeting and company sites
• Extensive knowledge of planning, organizational development, and strategic management demonstrated success in their application to health care and/or academic organizations
• MBA from a top-tier program strongly preferred
• Thorough understanding of Accreditation Counsel of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) guidelines pharmaceutical industry experience in medical affairs, field medical affairs, marketing, medical education, scientific publications or key opinion leader activities
• Experience in Investment banking, private equity, Corporate Development, or transaction teams with the big four accounting firms
• Excellent proficiency in financial modeling and comprehension in accounting, and valuation
• Strong quantitative skills and investment judgment
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as needed to support the firm’s investment and business development activities

I am excited to be applying for the position of strategic planning director. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership to key initiatives and strategic projects spanning the Planning organization, including proactively identifying and solving roadblocks, driving program management, content creation, storytelling and presentation.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Suggest and support potential new business opportunities and/or customers
• Support strategic activities to increase SSGs support to NOAA, Airforce Space, and NASA customers
• Interaction with Non-NRO Government Leadership to align the SSG Strategic Vision to mission needs
• Experience partnering with Aerospace and Defense products, customers and companies
• Experience in generating enterprise level strategic plans
• Understanding of key financial metrics that are critical to business success
• Results-oriented, motivating leader who has the interpersonal, relationship-building skills and political savvy to lead multi-cultural and geographically dis-persed teams within a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment
• Extensive qualitative and quantitative analytical skills

In response to your job posting for strategic planning director, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for business case modeling involving strategic M&A in product line space, and managing the integration of M&A transactions.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Support COO, MBOLT and associated MBO Functions
• Perform internal and external benchmarking assessments and analysis
• Coordinate and optimize MBOLT business meetings
• Agile, strategic thinker
• Adept in data/financial analysis to inform decisions and strategy
• Knowledge of finance and semi-complex budgeting
• Knowledge of talent acquisition, management and structure
• Proficient in creating and delivering verbal and written communications and presentations to senior management

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the strategic planning director position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for support, modeling and financial analysis of potential future M&A targets, investment opportunities, department of insurance or rating agency requests.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Intellectual curiosity and strong professional judgement
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (in particular), Word, PowerPoint
• Experience in report production
• Work in ambiguity and under pressure, , handle multiple projects simultaneously
• BPA Experience at CPO and/or Region strongly preferred
• Pharmaceutical, biotech, or CRO industry is strongly preferred
• Strong Financial IT systems & skills
• Above average knowledge of methods and tools for providing high quality analytical decision support

In response to your job posting for strategic planning director, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In the previous role, I was responsible for inspirational leadership and effective management of the Strategic Planning department including safety performance, costs and budgeting, workforce plan, culture plan and continuous improvement plan.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• CPA and/ or MBA (prefer MBA)
• Story telling & presentation skills
• Ideal background would also include experience in consulting, communications and finance
• Excellent strategic and systems-thinking skills
• Strong communication and facilitation skills to ensure leaders hold appropriate conversations
• Demonstrated political savvy – Able to operate and remain effective in politically complex and challenging situations
• Basic SQL (bonus)
• Social data mining & analysis (SPSS, R or Python - bonus)