Senior Director, Commercial IT
Ardelyx - Waltham, MA, US, 02254
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- Build strong relationships with commercial key stakeholders to understand business challenges, collaborate on possible solutions and partner on commercial strategy roadmap
- Oversee heavy vendor management, directing and ensuring optimized services with key vendors with a focus on cost efficiencies
- Lead the gathering of user requirements to drive the selection of appropriate technology solutions across sales, marketing, managed markets, and insights
- Provide strategic functional and technical insight into emerging technologies
- Oversee the design, implementation, rollout, and management of commercial technology systems, ensuring IT architectural standards are maintained while meeting business needs
- Lead a team of developers through the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, providing technical architecture guidance, performing code reviews, and managing development tasks to meet delivery deadlines
- Enhance and improve upon the ETL design framework and services-oriented information BUS architecture
- Develop strategies and solutions for managing the capture, storage, security, retrieval, distribution, preservation, and destruction of enterprise data
- Manage all budget and forecast activities pertaining to Commercial IT, Business Intelligence, and other commercial operational services, business-enabling projects, and vendors
- Work in conjunction with security, legal and compliance teams to ensure enterprise data mapping is current and accessible for legal and regulatory purposes
- Align the team's technology solutions with overall IT strategy, architecture, and standards
- Act as a mentor to staff with a focus on developing career goals
- Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science, information systems or related field with 12 - 15 years of related experience or equivalent experience
- 8-10 years of experience implementing enterprise analytic data mart/BI solutions in complex production environments
- 7-10 years of experience in information systems, with at least 4 years working in a business analyst or systems analyst role within the pharmaceutical industry
- Over 10 years of experience in data modeling, design, and development of databases for business applications, enterprise-level data integration, and Master Data Management (MDM)
- 7+ years of experience working in an IT organization supporting business technology needs
- Strong business acumen, with an understanding of business processes including financial impact assessment and ROI
- Proven ability to lead cross-functionally and deliver projects on time and on budget that meet well-defined requirements and deliver value
- Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated collaboration and teamwork with internal and external stakeholders
- Waltham, MA office-based hybrid position