Technology Leader Global & Americas, Medical Devices - Local Northshore MA/Southern NH area candidate REQUIRED
This is a long term contract role and may become permanent. We have been working with this client for 20+ years and you will be joining our staff of 80+ professionals.
Must be willing to go to the MA Northshore area/Southern NH office 4 times/week.
Job Description:
Technology Leader Global & Americas.
Key Responsibilities:
Business & Technology Strategy
- Support vision, align/prioritize business & IT strategies and co-shape strategic demand with the business
- Shape and define annual objectives, roadmaps and outcomes informed by business and technology for selected areas / functions
- Translate business vision/strategies and customer needs to products, empowering products and squads to innovate and create solutions to meet business / customer / user needs
- Unite varied products into cohesive end-to-end digital business strategies and solutions for function/franchise/region
- Co-drive continuous improvement and seek opportunities for business process improvement through technology, data and automation. Be a change agent that drives digital transformation.
- Understand competitive landscape and how competitors use technology.
Value Management
- Governance and prioritization of the investment processes, and management of the technology budget.
- Define and actively measure the value being created and delivered to customers / users / stakeholders (e.g., define, refine and measure OKRs on a regular cadence)
- Maintain a pulse on performance metrics to focus on business value realization and pull-through, including end user/customer KPIs, product group performance, technical performance (e.g., available / up time), product maturity and revenue/market growth
- Co-create business cases with business partners, supporting socialization and/or funding request activities
- Support selected initiatives and any planning cycles (e.g., BP, JU, NU LRFP)
- Owns budget assigned to scope
Internal and External Partnerships
- Represent client in strategic technology discussions with key external and internal stakeholders
- Foster an environment to increase digital acumen and drive data-driven culture for business partners and product teams across markets
- Build strong partnerships and connections with technology providers to shape policies & deliver innovative solutions
- Leverage knowledge of customers/users and broader ecosystem to drive identification / implementation of emerging products based on customers' evolving needs
- Manage delivery and act as product manager when required
- Identify and promote opportunity to leverage cross enterprise platforms
Leadership
- Drive strategic global business strategy and process harmonization opportunities
- Be a change agent, develop and execute change management plans
- Drive talent and culture agenda
- Serve product teams, enabling them to fulfill constantly changing external requirements in real time
- Encourage diverse opinions and constructive conflicts from team members to unleash full potential
- Enable and drive product and user centric mindset, models and delivery creating value for our employees, partners, patients and HCPs
Qualifications:
- A University Degree is required, master's degree is preferred.
- 9+ years of professional experience is required.
- At least 3 years in a similar role as a senior manager and as a people manager.
- A minimum of 3 years running a technology investment portfolio of $2M annually or more.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) are required.
- The ability to explain digital concepts to senior business partners, as well as business concepts to technologists is required.
- Demonstrate ability in partnering with partners to generate mutually helpful, long-term opportunities and negotiating outcomes is required.
- Experience applying lean startup and design thinking principles is required.
- Experience driving business outcomes through technology and data is required.
- Validated experience in examining issues, crafting strategy and influencing effectively across a complex organization is required.
- Demonstrated ability to improve organizational performance through the application of original thinking to existing and emerging methods, processes, products and services is required.
- Employing good judgement in figuring out how innovations will be deployed to produce business outcomes is preferred.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Information Technology, Product Management, and Consulting
Industries
Medical Equipment Manufacturing, Retail Health and Personal Care Products, and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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