Senior Manager / Associate Director Global IT Business Partner Commercial Americas Job

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Job Title:
Job ID:
13815
Location:
Berkeley Heights, NJ
Offsite Territory:
Full/Part Time:
Full-Time
Regular/Temporary:
Regular
Category:
Information Technology
Department:
IT - Global Business Partner - 4168
Celgene Corporation is committed to delivering innovative therapies designed to improve the lives of patients worldwide. We are a global biopharmaceutical company with operations in more than 70 countries that is helping to turn incurable cancers into chronic, manageable conditions. We are seeking talented professionals as we continue to grow and advance our efforts in oncology, hematology and immune and inflammatory disease. If you would like to join a company where you can make a difference, please consider the Celgene family.
Prerequisites:
- Strong communication skills - verbal and written
- Ability to work strategically and independently with internal and external groups on multiple, simultaneous projects
- Project strong executive presence with customers and senior management
- Strong listening, collaboration, and relationship building skills
- Ability to serve as team leader or as individual contributor
- 4 year degree, graduate degree a plus
Summary:
The Senior Manager / Associate Director, Commercial Americas IT will initially partner with the I&I Commercial leadership and governance teams to understand business capability needs and develop a roadmap and portfolio of projects to effectively support the Franchise. Partner with the Enterprise and Solution Architecture teams to identify potential solutions that match the I&I business strategy and ensure that they are aligned with Celgene-s technology strategy.
The incumbent will play a key role in working with the Commercial I&I team to :
- Understand business needs and IT capability requirements. Understand business objectives, processes, and strategies and assist in developing an IT strategy and roadmap / portfolio of projects in support of those objectives.
- Develop long-range business technology strategies
- Serve as trusted advisor to on system needs and activities
- Develop and maintain the portfolio of system needs based on business input and aligned with business strategies
- Provide subject matter expertise in the functional area as it relates to system capabilities
- Drive collaboration between the business and IT colleagues, constructively resolve conflicts, and properly influence key stakeholders
- Prepare business cases and initiate projects; develop detailed total cost of ownership including project cost estimates
- Proactively manage changes in project scope or schedule and assess their impact on budgets, business processes or other initiatives,
- Drive effective business governance of projects and post implementation oversight of applications
- Develop and support strategies for business process improvements through information systems automation
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Serve as voice of IT with business colleagues
- Serve as advisor on using IT capabilities to further enable business activities
- Understand IT strategies, policies, standards, and work practices; and, effectively represent them to the business
- Work with IT colleagues to develop project resource estimates and timelines
- Act as functional project manager for new systems or enhancements to existing systems
- Elicit, analyze, document business, user, and non-functional requirements
- Develop business area process models, activity diagrams and use cases
- Prepare or oversee the preparation of simulations of user requirements
- Own and author UAT Plan and UAT Results Report, manage UAT execution
- Prepare or oversee identification of application defects, correlate with detailed business and user requirements, and assign priorities based on business input
- Prepare or oversee preparation of documentation consistent with standards for documents such as requests for proposals (RFP), service level requirements (SLR), training documents, user manuals, and work practices.
- Drive development and execution of change management and training throughout the organization during the implementation and ongoing use of system applications
Skills/Knowledge Requirements:
- 10 years experience in the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology industry, with specific focus on the Commercial domain.
- Relevant business experience including requirements elicitation, documentation, testing, training
- Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Management tools
- Six Sigma, Lean or Business Process Change Techniques a plus
Functional Knowledge:
- Awareness of business and enterprise architecture
- Strong experience within the Commercial domain with the Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology Industries
- Understands fundamentals of Systems Development Life Cycle
- Understands fundamentals of system testing
Position Skills:
- Business acumen
- Financial acumen
- Project management
- Meeting facilitation
- Stand up presentation
- Written communication
- Constructive influencing of colleagues to positive outcome
Analysis and problem solving:
- Understand project management and contribute to defining work plans and keeping track of progress
- Facilitate meetings with business colleagues on IT topics
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