Director, Retirement and Archive Project Management Office

Job Description

• Based in Rahway, NJ, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.    

• Be part of an organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Are you ready to step into a leading IT role where you could help make a real difference in people's lives? Become our new Project Management Office Lead as part of the Decommission, Retire and Archive Center of Excellence (DRACOE) and guide your team to deliver data-driven insights that better enable us all on our mission to bring hope to those battling the most challenging diseases of our time. If you are ready, make a difference and apply today!

DRACOE is the process and data governance organization for applications that are exiting the production landscape. We provide a global governance and archiving service to the company and are responsible for electronic data across all divisions and geographies.

As the DRACOE Project Management Office Lead your primary responsibility with be the governance of the application end of life processes, ensuring that all implementations are compliant with corporate data governance practices and are executed in a timely and efficient manner. Additionally, your will have oversight of the budget and resource planning for the department, will work with the Product Owner for the data vault technologies and will be responsible for driving efficiencies through automation and enabling self-service.

To be successful you will need to develop a deep understanding of the DRACOE processes and the capabilities of the data vault technologies, and to build effective and collaborative relationships with stakeholders in our business functions and in technology groups.

The ideal candidate will be able to succeed in a dynamic, rapidly changing, highly matrixed business environment, and be able to mentor junior resources to develop within the team.

Responsibilities

Ways of Working

• Champion the DRACOE products and services, driving excitement and support with all stakeholders.

• Leverage user feedback and product metrics to enable data-driven decisions.

• Strong written and verbal communications skills with the ability to represent DRACOE in conversations with technical stakeholders.

• Strong written and verbal communications skills with the ability to represent DRACOE in conversations with business stakeholders.

• Ability to direct global teams.

• Critical thinker who can effectively embrace new ideas and technologies while balancing the needs of stakeholders and users.

Operate in Accordance with the Agile methodology and principals.

• Author and manage the product vision, mission, strategy, roadmap.

• Author, prioritize and manage the backlog.

• Use Jira to manage and communicate issues, risks and interdependencies.

• Manage project escalations, issues, risks and dependencies.

• Continuously discover and prioritize the best opportunities to deliver business value and meet the needs of stakeholders.

DRACOE Processes and Services/Data Vault

• Develop a deep understanding of DRACOE's processes and services.

• Develop a deep understanding of the various technologies supporting DRACOE's processes and services.

• Develop/demonstrate deep understanding of the data governance principals underpinning DRACOE's operation.

• Partner with the engineering organization to understand technology constraints and opportunities.

Qualifications

Required:

• At least 5 years of large data platform experience.

• At least 10 years of application implementation experience.

• At least 3 years of agile delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe methodologies.

• At least 2 years of experience with Jira or Confluence.

• Experience implementing or operating Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

• Experience working with AWS/Cloud Service Provider components.

• Ability to implement new processes and services.

• Experience