Associate Director IT, Veeva Quality Docs & Training

Job Description

About This Role:
As an Associate Director IT, Veeva Quality Docs & Training, your leadership will be instrumental in spearheading the deployment and management of vital applications, Veeva Quality Docs and Veeva Vault Training. In this role, you'll ensure top-notch service delivery across the entire lifecycle—from project inception to enhancements and support. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, technical architects, and project managers, you'll drive improvement to these new modules that align with our strategic IT goals. You will be the linchpin that brings together business needs with technological solutions, thereby enhancing our operational excellence and contributing significantly to the organization's compliance and training capabilities. Situated at the intersection of IT and business, your role is pivotal to upholding our commitments to quality and efficacy within the life sciences industry.

This role is RTP-Hybrid or Cambridge-Hybrid based .

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the development, deployment, and support of application services aligning with business and user requirements.
• Oversee all activities related to Veeva Vault Quality Docs and Vault Training, ensuring excellence in delivery and alignment with financial objectives.
• Provide strategic guidance to stakeholders on leveraging application services to fulfill business goals.
• Define and implement a robust governance framework, including metrics and service delivery optimization.
• Actively foster employee engagement, mentorship, and professional development within your team.
• Build and nurture high-performing teams, aligning with IT strategies and fostering collaboration.
• Evaluate and align talent with organizational needs to create a constructive work environment.
• Facilitate dialogues with stakeholders to pinpoint challenges and opportunities addressable through technology.
• Spearhead technology investment assessments, ensuring alignment with business objectives and financial targets.
• Manage IT delivery to meet business priorities, ensuring quality outcomes, on-time delivery, and budget adherence.
• Lead contract negotiations and foster third-party relationships to guarantee successful project executions.
• Drive the adoption of IT standards and explore opportunities for innovation.

Qualifications

Who You Are: You are a forward-thinking leader with a knack for aligning IT solutions with business processes. Your leadership capability is matched by your ability to pick up the shovel and execute, ensuring that technology investments yield tangible business benefits. You thrive in environments where collaboration and innovation are the norms, and you're adept at driving teams towards excellence. With a growth mindset, you embrace challenges as opportunities to learn and develop, both for yourself and your team. As a natural communicator, you understand the value of engaging stakeholders and fostering relationships that lead to successful outcomes.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences or IT-related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including leadership roles in IT or related fields.
• Demonstrated knowledge of GxP, Data Integrity, Systems Compliance, and other regulations relevant to Quality Systems Management.
• Proven experience in the life sciences or biotech/pharmaceutical industry
• Practical experience with Veeva Quality and Training Vault systems.
• Strong leadership capabilities with a proven track record in team building and people development.
• Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to manage complex projects and multi-task effectively.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with experience managing vendor contracts and third-party relations.

Preferred Skills:

• Relevant industry certifications or advanced training in related fields.
• Experience in managing cross-functional and geographically diverse teams.

Additional Information

The base salary range for this position is $157,000 to $216,000. Base salary offered is determined though an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.  

Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.   

In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees and their families' physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:  

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances 
• Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement   
• Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance  
• A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31) 
• Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 days off for Personal Significance 
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit 
• 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions 
• Employee stock purchase plan   
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year   
• Employee Resource Groups participation

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.