Job DescriptionOur IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.Our Company seeks to recruit a Director, Global Marketing IT to serve as a partner for the Human Health (HH) Global Marketing organization to report to the Director, Human Health (HH) Global Marketing IT. The new Director will be a leader within the Global Marketing IT client services team and will be assigned to many of its stakeholders and strategic initiatives. The Director will be responsible for relationship management, subject matter expertise and business case development in support of Global Marketing and will contribute to the creation and maintenance of the IT strategy, technology roadmap and strategic portfolio. He/she will partner with business clients, enterprise and divisional IT, external experts, and customers (as appropriate) to drive innovation, data driven insights and decision making, business value realization, and enabling business strategies through technology.Primary responsibilities include:
Partner with senior business executives within the Global Marketing organization to define the business strategy to differentiate our Company on a global scale.
Develop strategic partnerships to maximize-the-size-of or shorten-the-time-to value.
Pull-through IT strategies for greater business value over time.
Translate Global Marketing business strategies into IT solutions, programs, and technology roadmaps to enable and advance our Company’s business goals.
Lead the IT client service team responsible for IT program execution and roadmap completion.
Develop Global Marketing business cases that drive the IT portfolio and achieve alignment with the business.
Responsible (with Global Marketing business colleagues) for change management, helping to accelerate technology adoption and benefit realization.
Define realization metrics, track realization, report realization, and ensure execution of project/program is delivering business realization goals.
Education Minimum Requirement:
Bachelor's Degree required. Concentration in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Digital Marketing or related field preferred.
Qualifications:
Minimum of 10 years of work experience in IT account management, business architecture or analysis within the pharmaceutical industry.
Deep Business acumen, stakeholder engagement, relationship management, and strategic account planning in Marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
Demonstrated success building and maintaining credible strategic relationships with business clients and across other IT areas.
Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration.
Demonstrated experience in successfully delivering capabilities that are utilized within the business.
Demonstrated experience in business case development and financial modeling, including management of value realization metrics.
Ability to identify and influence the changes necessary to ensure solution adoption and value realization.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Understanding of the Agile framework and utilization of the framework in developing / enhancing IT capabilities.
Knowledge of digital asset tools and IT architecture.
Inquisitive - ability to ask the right questions to shape the IT-enabled business strategy.
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
Energetic self-starter with demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic and complex environment.
Experience in running complex workshops aligning people, process and technology. Fluent in SDLC best practices including experience applying in regulated business areas and processes.
Awareness of relevant industry business, information and technology trends, in and out of pharma.
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