Director, Digital Transformation

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The Global Product Development and Supply (GPS) organization is going through an important evolution to enable more reliable and consistent delivery of medicines to patients faster. As part of the evolution GPS needs to become a Digital First organization. This means adopting Digital as the core enabler to how it operates. Digital First means leveraging the best of technology, data, analytics, business processes and people to achieve improved business outcomes. To drive the transformation, we are establishing a team to implement our Digital First Transformation Strategy:

• Understand the requirements and needs of the Operating Units and Functions; translating these into roadmaps and business cases to elevate their capabilities
• Partner with Operational Excellence to integrate Digital capabilities into our Business Management Systems
• Implement Digital First transformation methodology and approach

Reporting to the Executive Director, Digital Transformation Strategy; The successful candidate will be a visionary leader who can inspire change, drive the transformation, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with functions across the organization to establish requirements and needs to successfully transform operations; providing critical input to the sequence and plan of execution including broad-based business case development supporting the transformation
• Act as a Digital Ambassador supporting Operating Units and Business functions in their transformation journeys
  • Identify and prioritize digital initiatives that will drive innovation, growth, and operational efficiency, leveraging design thinking and other innovation methodologies.
  • Coach, mentor, and support the execution of transformation initiatives through a standard methodology ensuring connectivity between process, technology, data and people
  • Lead cross functional transformation initiatives ensuring successful deployment across GPS
  • Ability to implement/practice Agile (scrum) methodology
  • Ability to break down an operation and lead teams in developing business cases with clear value propositions that can be defined through data, facts and evidence
  • Provide change management expertise to ensure adoption of new ways of working linked to the GPS Digital Roadmap
• Provides perspective on best-in-class digital capabilities that can be adapted and leveraged by the organization with an eye towards operational excellence and efficiency
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in digital transformation and apply that knowledge to drive innovation within the company.
• Partners closely with cross functional teams including IT, Business Insights and Analytics and Finance

Requirements

• Enthusiasm and energy to help transform organizations, with tenacity/perseverance for leading change
• Bachelor’s degree required in engineering, business, data science or information systems with a Masters or MBA preferred.
• Over 10 years of experience in the digital space (technology, data, analytics, process redesign)
• Extensive experience with business case development
• Proven track record of driving innovation and growth through digital transformation, using design thinking, rapid prototyping, agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum) and other innovation methodologies.
• Strong leadership, facilitation and collaboration skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to experiment, take risks and work across the matrix.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in digital transformation, and the ability to apply that knowledge to drive innovation within the company.
• Demonstrated ability to explain digital concepts in a creative and easy to understand way
• Demonstrated experience with operational excellence principles (preference for Lean Six Sigma certifications)

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