Business Consultant, IT Strategy Realization (Hybrid)

Job Description

This new role will work in the IT Strategy Realization team, focused on the global Simplify IT initiative.

We are looking for a proactive, ‘hands-on’ business and digital/IT contributor, and leader. This role will have broad and diverse application, engaging with the IT Strategy Realization Team, IT Leadership Team, the IT Senior Leadership Network, and various IT and business team members across the globe.

This business consultant will have the technical skills and social capacity to articulate business strategy, drive agendas and nurture relationships throughout the IT organization, and the enterprise, setting the standard on how to execute work.

Key focus areas include:

Business consulting and agile approaches

• Leverage and maintain a suite of ‘core consulting’ tools and storyboard/templates for use across IT; facilitating education, use and adoption. The outcome is to guide a consistent approach across IT with a focus on business outcomes and success metrics

• Partner with IT teams and squads in leveraging the ‘core consulting tools’ to ensure our approach to IT opportunities are inclusive, transparent, and accessible across the organization and at all levels, leading to a more streamlined and agile enterprise IT 

• Partner internally within IT to ‘leverage the center’ by taking a practical, pragmatic approach that is customer-focused to reduce duplication, maximize reuse and accelerate innovation.​

• Leading and standing up programs of work, as defined by the IT Strategy Realization (such as Simplify IT); and work in support of the IT and Digital strategy, with a relentless focus on business outcomes and delivering value, with a bias for quick wins to build momentum.

• Provides subject matter expertise, independent perspectives, new ideas, thought partnership, education, upskilling, tools, and execution support

• Take an agile approach to design and execute new opportunities/priorities; with a focus on simplification, automation and leveraging central architecture and IT solutions

• Lead, Support, and partner on cross-cutting activities, workstreams and/or strategic initiatives, as defined by the IT Strategy Realization team.

• Provide ad hoc consulting coaching and support to various projects across IT, including opportunity / problem definition, approach, design, and execution

Brings the outside in
In partnership with and/or supporting other enterprise or IT value teams:

• Conduct market scanning to proactively identify external business and technology trends, and leading practice in IT or business processes

• Develop briefing papers and summarize insights on external trends and business conditions

• Coordinate working sessions to consider the art of the possible, exploring opportunities to simplify, enhance and transform

• Take ideas from concept to test proof of concept via MVPs, and help scale if successful, or fail fast and share learnings

Collaborates within IT and across the organization

• Support the end-to-end operations of the IT Strategy Realization, including the IT Leadership Team, Senior Leaders Network, and executive communications

• Connect the dots across the IT organization, helping to simplify and identify synergies

• Build strong relationships across the IT value chain

• Influence large-scale IT initiatives through strong collaboration with internal IT and vendor leaders

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, information technology, management information systems, or related discipline

• Preferred: Master’s Degree e.g., Master of Business Administration

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 6 years of IT or IT adjacent experience.

• Comfortable with ambiguity; a critical thinker able to provide structure and clarity around new ideas and innovations

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to network internally and externally; and works effectively with all organizational levels

• Working knowledge of IT architecture, development, and a broad range of applications (e.g., cloud), technology (e.g., data and analytics, and automation) and infrastructure services

• Work with a sense of urgency and tenacious execution, with strong personal accountability for driving results

• Simplify complex information to enable understanding, commitment, and alignment

• Think creatively and decisively and thrives on new challenges

• Enterprise focused with a passion for business, corporate and digital strategy, and execution

• Experience in change management, program management and agile

• Competent in business case development, business domain analysis, customer/user experience mapping, new technology evaluation, and IT risk management

• Comfortable challenging the status quo and possesses ability to influence and manage stakeholders

• Experience in leading, engaging and influencing project and cross-functional teams; including a passion for coaching and developing early in career talent

• Minimum five years’ experience in IT, business, and/or strategy roles. Preferred combined pharma and non-pharma or business consulting experience

• Empathic and a global mindset

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience with Process Optimization
• Six Sigma Experience

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