Sr Director, IT

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $42 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or growing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 120,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. Thermo Fisher Scientific is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

How you will make an impact:

The Sr. Director of Information Technology for the Materials and Structural Analysis Division within the Analytical Instruments Group develops and implements IT strategies for the secure and efficient operation of our enterprise applications, infrastructures, operational technology, and communications systems.

The role works alongside our Division Leadership Team and coordinates with our overall IT organization to ensure service delivery. The position is accountable for the Division IT budgets, provides leadership to an organization of 60+ IT professionals, influences delivery from our shared services, and leads a pool of external vendors.  Our Materials and Structural Analysis group is a high-tech leader in nano-scale imaging and material characterization solutions.

What you will do:

• Provide consultative strategic and ongoing leadership for planning, development, delivery and coordination of information services and initiatives ensuring they are aligned to the business' strategic imperatives
• Lead the Division IT budget and program portfolio
• Act as a senior leader within our Analytical Instruments IT Group function
• Directly lead a team of 60+ IT professionals and influence operational support of our IT shared services organizations to ensure quality service delivery to our teams
• Work collaboratively with other IT, Digital and Group / Division leadership to extend the scale of the Division using the broader Company capabilities
• Establish and measure the short- and long-term value of investments in the IT portfolio
• Provide status reporting to IT and executive leadership; call out and lead risks at the appropriate levels within IT and the business; establish clear metrics
• Ensure our information security and compliance posture, activities, and practices are robust within the Division

Business Partnership & Relationship Management

• Build the comprehensive long-range strategy alongside your business partners, with focus on extended IT services for efficiency and revenue enablement
• Develop a comprehensive digital transformation portfolio supporting our customer and internal initiatives
• Own the analytics and automation needs across the various businesses and act as a catalyst for innovation within the overall leadership team
• Possess a detailed understanding of the long-term vision for all business areas supported, making decisions that support the company’s strategic priorities, and helping craft these priorities through influence
• Build and evolve the technology roadmap to ensure that our capabilities continuously improve and evolve with the business and implement toward digital transformations
• Work along-side our marketing and R&D functions in delivering leading solutions and utilizing the scale of the company for innovation

People Development

• Identify and lead all aspects of the development of talent strategies, workforce planning, succession planning and career development for the department, keeping in mind talent and opportunities within Thermo Fisher’s IT and Digital functions.
• Actively evaluate and develop people and organizational capabilities to set and implement a human resource strategy which accelerates business growth and drives value

Financial

• Manage to an annual operating budget; and a capital program budget working closely with functional partners
• Forecast and plan for future financial needs for existing application management and projects
• Collaborate within IT to ensure adequate flow of project information, resourcing, and budgeting
• Compare, contrast and benchmark services or costs against others

Education

Degree in Science, (Business) Information Technology, Computer Sciences or related field required

Experience

12 years related experience leading IT/Digital teams, to include senior-level leadership experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience working in high-tech capital equipment, life sciences, and/or semiconductor industries is desired
• Demonstrated ability to drive digital innovation: Proven track record in leading and implementing digital transformation initiatives, driving innovation into both process and product workflows.
• Experience in IT plus digital work, including familiarity with AI methods and other relevant technologies to a high tech enterprise.
• Ability to develop and implement a Digital/IT strategic plan and be an authority on the senior business staff
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and methodology with leadership experience
• Authoritative knowledge of information technology industry and the direction it is headed
• Proven knowledge in customer engagement digital capabilities in high-tech and capital equipment markets is preferred
• Demonstrated business leadership and management ability with robust presentation skills
• Excellent social skills and the ability to work in a highly matrixed environment
• Ability to translate technical terminology into terms understandable to management, customers, and employees
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with other senior leadership members
• Effective team building, organizational and staff development skills