Senior Director, Strategic Planning and Operations, Spain and Portugal

REVOLUTION Medicines

Madrid, SpainPosted yesterday

About the role

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 Spain operating model ahead of AEMPS and European regulatory milestones, in preparation for future launch readiness. Reporting to the VP, General Manager, Spain and Portugal, 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 Strategic Planning and Operations, Spain 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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

- People Leadership & Capability Building.

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

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

Governance, Risk & Operational Effectiveness

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

- Fosters adherence to applicable SOPs and promotional and non-promoti

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