Role:Director, Commercial IT
Loc:Bothell, WA

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with Commercial stakeholders to design, deliver and maintain technology solutions that align to Commercial business strategic direction.
  
• Bringing awareness of innovative digital technologies and solutions to Commercial stakeholders and incorporating them into the Commercial IT roadmap.
  
• Evaluating, selecting and contracting with external service partners (consultants, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, other) to deliver Commercial IT solutions and services.
  
• Overseeing quality of Commercial IT service delivery to ensure the productive engagement of external partners, and effective management of vendor contracts and Service Level Agreements.
  
• Identifying and negotiating business needs among business and Commercial stakeholders, supporting the prioritization and approval of Commercial solution requests, and ensuring alignment with client?s investment priorities.
  
• Representing Commercial organizations IT needs and ensuring alignment with client??s Enterprise Technology Strategy.
  
• Ensuring effective planning and execution of Commercial IT initiatives.
  
• Ensuring IT Operations and Services are delivered to a high-standard and are in line with Commercial requirements.
  
• Managing a small team of business IT analysts (either full-time or consultants) to deliver the Commercial IT roadmap and partner with Commercial for business solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or Life Sciences.
  
• 12+ years of experience working within an information technology organization in a technology management function, including at least 3 years of proven functional or team leadership skills and ability to collaborate and build relationships.
  
• 5+ years of experience supporting the Commercial IT functions of a biotechnology or pharmaceutical company (Medical Affairs, Marketing, Sales, Data Warehouse/Analytics, Multi-Channel, other).
  
• 5+ years of project management experience leading teams, projects and programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong vendor and partner management experience.
  
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce.com, Veeva CRM, Veeva Vault products and other Veeva Life Science products.
  
• Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Stewardship and Enterprise Information Management concepts.
  
• Understanding of health care compliance requirements and principles.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with key business partners, IT leadership teams, and external services providers.
  
• Demonstrated ability for strategic IT planning and roadmap development.
  
• Ability to translate strategies into tangible pragmatic executable plans.
  
• Experience with data analytics, reporting and presentation solutions, multi-channel technologies.
  
• Strong organizational, planning and financial management skills.
  
• Strong organizational change management and project management skills.