Job Description Summary

The Technology and Global Services (TGS) organization partners with BD's businesses and regions to provide the application services, workplace solutions, and business process best practices to achieve BD’s purpose of advancing the world of health. As a strategic, service-oriented organization, TGS brings together IT, Global Business Services, and Workplace Solutions into one integrated organization serving all of BD. The TGS Business Partner serves a key role in meeting this purpose.

This individual plays a critical role in working with stakeholders and fellow business partners to identify, prioritize, and shape opportunities to enhance and strengthen BD’s strategic platforms. This person will be a key contributor in preparing appropriate solution direction and delivering projects in support of BD’s Technology Roadmap. This role brings the appropriate technology, process, and workplace solutions together as they contribute to delivering on TGS’s strategic vision.
This position reports directly to the Associate Director, TGS Business Partner.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us!

The main objective of this role is to actively partner with stakeholders and peers within Technology & Global Services (TGS) to identify, prioritize, and advance key initiatives sponsored by Platforms, Infrastructure, Information Security, and Digital Transformation organizations.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and foster a close partnership with the TGS Core Areas of Delivery Teams as your primary stakeholder.  This would include understanding the team’s structure, developing collaborative relationships with its leaders, and understanding short and long-term objectives as they relate to TGS’s process and technology roadmaps

• Work with other TGS business partner teams and external partners to define, document, analyze, and prioritize existing and emerging business requirements

• Oversee projects through the TGS Operating System from idea creation through project approval, execution, and closure

• Accountable for execution of highly integrated and complex projects.  This includes activities such as reporting of project status to leadership, escalating and mitigating risk, conducting change management impact analysis, cutover planning, knowledge transfer, and transition to operational support

• Work with finance partners in gaining funding approval for projects and budget tracking.  This would include activities such as creation of POs, setting up capital accounts, and monthly tracking of actual spend

• Work with partners in reviewing and selecting third parties as needed, engage with Vendor Management and Procurement in negotiating and implementing Statements of Work, and creation of vendor accounts

• Ensure all projects go through required Validation and Regulatory reviews

• Measure and communicate value realized on a periodic basis through defined and agreed upon metrics and supporting analysis

• Ensure solutions are not siloed and are integrated with BD’s enterprise roadmaps

• Participate in yearly Annual Strategic Reviews of the TGS project portfolio.  Engage with leadership to assist in compiling and prioritizing projects and programs for the coming fiscal year.  Gather data to support TGS Portfolio Management and represent team members in presenting initiatives to a larger audience of senior management.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Information Technology or Engineering related field is preferred. Process or Technical certification is a plus.

Knowledge and Skills:

The ideal candidate will possess a combination of practical technology and business process experience, exceptional relationship building skills, and a solution-oriented mentality.

This person should also have:

• 8+ years’ experience in Information Technology with focus in thre