Sr. Manager, IT Finance & Supply Chain Business Partner

COMPANY:

At BioCryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with complement-mediated and other rare diseases. For over three decades we’ve been guided by our passion for not settling for “ordinary” in our quest to develop novel medicines. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics, led by the efforts of our team of expert scientists in our Discovery Center of Excellence in Birmingham, Alabama. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, our European headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.biocryst.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

 

JOB SUMMARY:

BioCryst is a fast-growing pharmaceutical company with an immediate opening for an experienced Sr Manager, IT Finance & Supply Chain Business Partner who can effectively create and maintain the strategic partnership between Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Supply Chain and IT.  This role serves as the primary point of contact and internal consultant for business stakeholders and manages the IT solutions across the Finance and Supply Chain organizations and is responsible for maintaining a high level of business satisfaction in IT systems and services.  The Sr Manager will provide leadership in managing the demand, identifying, designing, developing requirements and project managing IT solutions through the Software Development Lifecycle and transition to steady state support. #LI-REMOTE

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supports the Finance and Supply Chain IT ecosystem by partnering with stakeholders to identify, define and prioritize technology initiatives. This is a hybrid role that consists of Business Relationship Management, Business Analysis, Project Management, Vendor Management and Portfolio Management for Finance and Supply Chain applications.
• Understands current and emerging Finance and Supply Chain technologies, best practices, and introduces opportunities to guide solution decisions.
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with cross functional teams to identify and assist with addressing pain points and process improvement and/or strategic technology opportunities.
• Consistently and proactively communicates with Finance, Supply Chain, IT Teams and external partners as it relates to planning, resourcing, execution and delivery.
• Leads project lifecycle activities such as business analysis, planning, requirements gathering, design, build, testing and implementation.
• Identifies and promotes new platform features and drives user adoption.
• Ensures projects are delivered in accordance with business requirements by utilizing industry standard project management lifecycle principles (PMLC).
• Continually reviews processes and procedures to improve upon current state.
• Creates and maintains standards, procedures and documentation related to area of responsibility.
• Manages and maintains demand of projects and service tickets and report status.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

 

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor’s degree in business or technology discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• A minimum of 5 years combined experience working with Oracle Cloud Financial and Supply Chain technologies and 10 years working with ERP systems/technologies.
• Strong knowledge of SOX and IT Compliance
• Experience with business analysis processes including requirements gathering, process diagramming, and specification development to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams
• Experience with systems design, development and project management from business requirements through implementation and transition to ongoing support
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Customer service-oriented Self-starter who strives for continuous improvement by working both independently and collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders

 

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