Senior Director of CDAS Strategy and Product Integration

Job Overview

As the Senior Director of CDAS Strategy and Product Integration you will function as a Product Owner who will put together the data integration strategy for the technology suites in IQVIA’S RDS IT division.   The selected candidate will provide leadership for the Clinical Data Suite, specifically related to strategy, architecture and cross platform integration.  As a result, they will play a critical role in shaping the data integration strategy across all internally implemented solutions. 

** Essential Functions **

Strategy, Markets & Roadmaps

- Set the overall strategy and vision for a solution suite in partnership with executive sponsor and senior stakeholders.

- Define the high-level success measures for the product suite.

- Ensure that accurate roadmaps are maintained for all solutions in the product suite and monitor for risks and dependencies.

- Research and synthesize internal and external market requirements, market and technology trends along with a competitive analysis that feeds the product strategy & roadmaps

- Provide guidance and oversight for business case development across the product suite, monitoring for risks and value is being delivered

- Partner with Go-to-Market Team to effectively communicate the value proposition and messaging for the product suite, case studies, sales tools, and collateral.

- Effectively communicate with customers, sales, marketing, development, and senior management as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Solutioning and Delivery

- Work with senior stakeholders to define scalable and saleable solution suite to meet client needs

- Drive and enable cross-team, inter-product collaboration and solutioning.

- Provide guidance on end-to-end product suite strategy

- Provide guidance and review of offerings-related activities, including scope of work, objectives, timelines, and quality of deliverables

- Provide oversight and guidance for buy-build-partner analysis across product suite, and where necessary, review potential partner relationships.

Operational

- Maintain accountability to P&L owner for product suite finances and periodic reporting on key metrics

- Serve as a subject matter expert for the development team regarding key goals, and act as the primary liaison to senior stakeholders and executive sponsors, ensuring ongoing visibility to development progress.

- Mentor and coaching in a quickly growing team that is key to delivering differentiating solutions for IQVIA

** Qualifications **

Experience & Industry

- 8+ years of strategic leadership and product development experience

- Experience with and knowledge of Clinical Development, Lifesciences/Healthcare industries. The candidate must be highly familiar with clinical development processes and roles well as be knowledgeable of regulation and requirements.

- Experience designing and developing Software as a Service or Platform as a Service products

- Strong track record of successfully deploying technology innovations to enable business growth

- Experienced with leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize and drive decision-making.

- High-level understanding of technology, data science and/or machine learning concepts, with the ability to convey to non-technical audiences

- Experience with relevant platforms such as big data, analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, enterprise systems integration, hybrid and multi-cloud

Leadership

- Proven leadership track record, organizational and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to deliver results to the appropriate quality and timeline metrics, with good judgment and ability to manage competing priorities

- Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.

Communication

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including good command of the English language

- Ability to develop and champion robust business cases supporting the solution suite

- Must be a strong writer and public speaker in front of large, senior groups.

Process & Tools

- Understanding of the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures, including agile approach

- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and business stakeholders

- Comfortable using collaboration and CRM tools such as Teams, SharePoint, JIRA, Aha and Salesforce.

Education & Certifications

- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline or a related business degree. MBA preferred

- Product or project management experience with models like PMI, Agile, and Pragmatic Institute

At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 70,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law.

IQVIA, Inc. provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.  Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to submit an application for employment or otherwise participate in the application process should contact IQVIA’s Talent Acquisition team at workday_recruiting@iqvia.com to arrange for such an accommodation.