Director, IT Business Relationship Management–Data, Analytics, and Innovation

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The IT Business Relationship Management (BRM) Director for Data, Analytics & Innovation will be responsible for defining and developing Abbott’s Core Diagnostics (Core Dx) data strategy in partnership with the business domains and the Corporate IT delivery organization. This role will drive thought leadership and ensure the execution of the overarching vision, focusing on digital transformation and future state capabilities. In addition, this position is responsible for Business Relationship Management for the Core Dx Research and Development organizations.

This position is responsible for leading a multi-discipline team, fostering talent growth, building strong partnerships with the business and shared service delivery teams, ensuring the technical capabilities are available, and building out the data and analytics capability, architecture, and governance process.

Reporting to the DVP of Core Diagnostics IT with functional responsibility to the VP of Core Dx R&D and the DVP of Core Dx Digital Health Solutions business. The IT BRM Director for Data, Analytics & Innovation is responsible for driving strategic value through technology enablement and innovation. This is a full-spectrum senior IT leadership role that is accountable for developing effective relationships with Sr. Business and IT leadership and championing the development of the business unit’s data, analytics, IOT, artificial intelligence, and innovation IT strategy, providing provision and oversight of services required to support a large division’s LRP and operations. Key leadership responsibilities include partnering with business leadership to establish an overall technology strategy to support key strategic imperatives and providing cross-divisional thought leadership including areas of data use, ethics, and governance.

• Provides strategic business technology thought leadership and insight-rich consultation related to business architecture, process optimization, data, analytics, IOT, artificial intelligence, innovation, and emerging trends.
   
• Develops business unit’s data, analytics, IOT, artificial intelligence, and innovation IT portfolio of investments and works across the business to align and rationalize investments, priorities, and services.
   
• Evaluates, mentors, and develops resources to elevate strategic partnerships (internal, external) across R&D, commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, regulatory, quality, finance, and product development, specifically in data, analytics, health analytics, IOT, artificial intelligence, and innovation.
   
• Manages all divisional data and analytics services requirements and oversees services to include on-premises, cloud, and big data advanced analytics ecosystems.
   
• Accountability to DVP Core Diagnostics IT, VP of Core Diagnostics R&D and DVP Digital Health Solutions for the overall business value of technology enablement. Assures functional alignment with Abbott’s overall technology strategy, managing business value through performance measures and total cost of ownership.
   
• Serves as cross-divisional IT leader representative on the Abbott AI (Artificial Intelligence) Council and Pan-Abbott Data & Analytics / Health Analytics Council and leads Core Diagnostics’ Data Use Ethics & Governance Council. Serves as IT leader, interfacing with external health analytics customer partnerships.
   
• Partners with business leadership to establish a technology strategy to support key imperatives influencing and managing Business expectations.

Key Accountabilities

Key leadership role that will work directly with division executive management to develop, identify, and align IT strategy with business priorities. Provides thought leadership to drive business value through foundational and innovative technology capabilities, including general awareness of IT industry consumer technologies/trends, industry-specific solutions, commercially available software-as-as-services, Abbott enterprise solutions, and risk/benefits of emerging technologies.

Directs appropriate business interactions focused on defining business objectives and needs to determine required IT solutions/service alternatives, yielding an executable long-range plan and capability roadmap. Works closely across business functions, corporate IT, and third-party suppliers to appropriately design and integrate solutions that effectively meet Abbott’s and the division’s overall business needs.