Job Abstract

Job Description

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

The primary responsibility of the lead is to collaborate with business stakeholders, have in-depth expertise in Vaccine data to support business outcomes, support business data and analytics capabilities, envision and develop Insights-focused solutions and ensure high quality delivery of these solutions.

Additional responsibilities would include:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define data and analytics capabilities and capability roadmaps to address business needs.

• Continuously refine Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) by collaborating with business stakeholders.
  Develop deep understanding of Vaccine data used to support business outcomes – including in-house and external data.

• Provide product ownership responsibility for Vaccines Data and Analytics capabilities.

• Ensure all technical deliverables meet necessary standards and team is striving for innovative, high quality and cost-effective solutions for our Business.

• Support the implementation of refinements that will enable the team to continuously improve delivery.

• Responsible for ensuring quality and understanding of E2E solution for all Vaccines Data and analytics projects.

• Support and help define (in some cases) change management activities for the given product.

• Coordinate and support Data Science needs within this business area.

• Collaborate with Data and Analytics Architect and Leads to ensure solutions leverage existing architecture patterns and products.

• Support integrations for Vaccines Commercial forecast management along with End-to-End LROP process.

You will work and learn more about:

• Vaccines Business.

• Enabling data and analytics capability to support business strategy.

• Working with global teams and leveraging the hub network.

Minimum Education Requirement: 
Bachelor's Degree required.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience, with demonstrated expertise in the Data and Analytics space.

• Experience with leading teams and eliciting requirements for complex systems.

• Deep understanding of data management best practices

• Ability to lead requirements sessions with clients and project teams.

• Strong leadership, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to articulate results and issues to internal and client teams.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in the Vaccines or related area.

• Strong technical understanding of tools and architecture

• High proficiency in Information Management, Data Analysis, and Reporting Requirement Elicitation

• Prior experience in a product centric model utilizing Agile methodologies.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders).  Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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