Sr Manager, IT Business Analysis

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Job Description
 

The Value & Access Capability Lead acts as a technical lead for the US Value & Access team and will report to the Value & Access IT Director. 

This role will support and liaise with a broad team including Market Access Operations, US Commercial Legal, Internal Audit, IT Vendor Management, IT Risk & Controls, and Finance. This role will infuse forward thinking and innovative approaches to building and implementing technologies that support our business as we scale. This role will be the go-to person for all Value & Access IT operational needs – from onboarding new team members, overseeing managed services providers to owning the IT processes that support our technical day-to-day operations. 

In addition, this role will be involved from the inception of IT solution ideas through to successful execution of these technology initiatives. Projects may include enhancement of existing Revenue Management tools (Model N system modules), system security assessment of third-party SaaS solutions, and implementation of new technologies to enhance business effectiveness. Critical to the role will be a clear understanding of business objectives and an ability to identify measurable value for all technologies proposed and implemented. 

The successful candidate will provide new technology project support and oversee the day-to-day operations of our US-based Value & Access systems.  

 
Additionally:  

• Advise management on business opportunities enabled through technologies. Ensure that activities, budgets and portfolios are strategically and operationally aligned with business needs and IT strategies.  

• Proactively identify and promote technological solutions to existing or emerging business issues.  Work with leadership teams across relevant functions to push technology as a competitive advantage for Gilead. 

• Ensure that projects are managed and monitored to ensure benefits are met and potential bottlenecks/failures are identified and solved in due time.  

• Actively explore opportunities to enhance customer facing processes through technology recommendations. 

Core Tasks and Responsibilities: 

Advise IT and business leadership of capability enablement opportunities facilitated through the Revenue Management technology portfolio. Ensuring that activities, budgets and system portfolios are strategically aligned with business needs and IT strategies 

• Turn business strategy into clearly defined, beneficial and cost-effective IT projects ready for implementation. 

• Understand processes, plans, objectives, drivers, and issues facing business teams, along with the underlying external policies and regulations.  

• Ensure the availability of appropriate project plans for system implementations that address technical, process, training and support perspectives when introducing new applications. 

• Ensure appropriate selection of solutions and third parties required to support system changes identified. 

• Leverage existing solutions from the IT toolset and support the business to maximize the benefits delivered from project investments. 

• Ensure that initiatives generated by business functions are in line with the Gilead IT regional/global strategies and utilize appropriate tools where these already exist within the IT toolset. 

• Accountable for driving overall alignment of current IT portfolio and innovation initiatives.  

• Responsible for the negotiation and mediation between the business and IT to find pragmati