BU03M5 Senior Director, Strategy & Growth - CAS

Description CAS uses intuitive technology, unparalleled scientific content, and unmatched human expertise to help companies create groundbreaking innovations that benefit the world. As the scientific information solutions division of the American Chemical Society, CAS manages the largest curated reservoir of scientific knowledge, and for over 117 years, has helped innovators mine, assess, and apply that information to keep businesses thriving. The CAS team is global, diverse, endlessly curious, and strives to make scientific insights accessible to innovators worldwide. CAS is currently seeking a Senior Director, Strategy & Growth Position Summary The pace of product, AI, technology, customer, and market change facing CAS is accelerating. This role provides CAS with dedicated, full-time capacity to translate emerging market, customer, technology, data and AI trends into growth opportunities and a coherent strategic roadmap, and to build the alignment and momentum needed to execute against it. The Senior Director, Strategy & Growth will lead CAS strategy and growth planning, market and competitive intelligence, opportunity development, growth opportunity and business-model strategy, and strategic partnership development. The role also will identify and develop the strategic rationale for potential inorganic growth opportunities, including acquisitions and other potential transactions. The Senior Director, Strategy & Growth operates within ACS's enterprise governance framework. For potential acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, or other material transactions, the role will partner closely with the enterprise ACS Finance team which leads valuation, transaction structuring, financial diligence, transaction process management and negotiation, and enterprise transaction governance. Reporting Relationship & Scope - Reports to the CAS President (or a senior executive designated by the President). - Primary scope is CAS strategy and growth, with the potential to contribute to broader ACS strategic initiatives where those efforts reinforce CAS growth and the shared ACS mission. - Serves as CAS' primary strategic partner to enterprise ACS Finance on inorganic growth opportunities. - Individual contributor role at launch, with potential to build a small team (analysts/associates) as the mandate matures. Key Responsibilities Build a more formal, analytically rigorous view of CAS' current and emerging markets including customer needs, competitors, market and technology trends, and white space opportunities, to inform strategic decisions, sharpen solution roadmaps, and surface organic and inorganic growth opportunities with more timeliness and rigor than currently exists. Translate market intelligence into clearly articulated growth theses and prioritized opportunity areas for CAS. Translate market, customer, competitive, and technology insights into implications for CAS' product and AI strategy. Partner with Product and Technology leadership to inform product and technology priorities, identify capabilities required to deliver CAS' growth strategy, and accelerate execution of agreed priorities. Assess the market potential, customer needs, business-model options, and strategic rationale for new products and capabilities. Partner with the SVP, Chief Customer Officer and Product leadership to translate prioritized growth opportunities into customer value propositions, pricing, packaging, go-to-market, and commercialization strategies. Develop a framework for identifying capability gaps and deciding where CAS should build internally versus partner externally; identify and assess potential strategic partners; develop the strategic and commercial rationale for partnerships and weigh the strategic upside of partnerships against execution complexity and risk. Lead