Job Description
At our company, for more than a century we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Information Technology (IT) is a critical differentiating capability for our research organization and a pillar of our Company’s strategy, with a focus on driving efficient, reusable, and easy to consume technology.
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable scientific innovation.
The Clinical & Real-World Evidence Generation (CRWEG) Value Team brings together product, engineering, and data expertise to drive the data and technology strategy that accelerates our company’s ability to develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. The Executive Director, Clinical & Real-World Evidence Generation Product, is responsible to deeply understand the needs of our partner organization, develop and evolve a vision for the suite of products and associated services of the value team, and lead a cross functional team to the successful realization of that vision. The role will work closely with the Value Team leader and Engineering leaders to promote common understanding of business needs, encouraging the development of modern, value driving products leveraging our existing clinical and data platforms.
Primary Responsibilities:
Understand critical business outcomes, creating the integrated product strategy to enable these outcomes though technology and driving the alignment across the organization to empower product line and product teams to realize these outcomes through customer-enabling products that improve the efficiency and quality of evidence generation and communication.
Design and deliver end user technologies within Product Lines that promote IT standards with an eye towards end-to-end integration and seamless information flow.
Develop and support a practice of product management, building the mindset and practice of end-to-end accountability of product lifecycle, resolving uncertainty early through product discovery and agile practices, and identification of reusable patterns that enable scale and efficiency in product delivery.
Be the chief advocate and evangelist within the wider organization for Clinical & Real-World Evidence Generation products to drive adoption, fantastic user experience, and value realization.
Manage a group of 30-40 technology professionals, promoting career development and continuous upskilling of talent to build incredible teams and the ecosystem to empower them.
Develop an external presence and strong internal networks to recruit highly skilled and diverse talent, stay current with industry trends, and establish effective vendor partnerships.
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, Computer Science or a scientific field.
Required Experience and Skills:
12+ years of experience in technology product management or in IT leadership roles or clinically focused roles in complex matrix environments
5+ years of work experience in technology enablement for clinical trials, scientific leader engagement and/or real world evidence generation
Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills; adept at working with colleagues from diverse disciplines and at all levels of the company, articulating complex technical topics at the right level of detail for specific audiences.
Proven experience in team building, mentoring, and leadership with a demonstrated ability to inspire others to follow a common vision.
Proven ability to execute consistently, rapidly, and effectively.
Strong quantitative skills and the ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Self-motivated, value-oriented with a mindset of continuous learning
Expertise in Product Management and Agile software development
Travel: Up to 10%
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Expected salary range:
$220,700.00 - $347,500.00
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
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Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
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Required Skills:
Innovation, Innovative Solutions, Management System Development, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management
Preferred Skills:
Communication, Leadership, Teamwork
