Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Galapagos
Senior Scientific Strategy Consultant
Zifo
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
JavaPythonSDLCSQL
About the role
- Deliver strategic projects for clients focused on life sciences R&D stages
- Analyze customer needs and gaps and propose solutions for desired future state
- Collaborate with clients at multiple levels (SMEs, systems users, lab managers, directors, VPs) and with internal Zifo delivery and commercial teams
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders
- Provide high-level project and client consultation to drive overall engagement success
- Manage internal team and mentor associates across the Zifo organization
- Drive clear problem elucidation on new and ongoing engagements
- Develop recommendations and future state strategy, including application and data ecosystem roadmaps
- Review and update business processes and systems landscape information
- Provide on-site business analysis support for scientific groups
- Evaluate industry trends to identify areas for optimization
- Perform gap analysis, define business and data process workflows (as-is and to-be) and data models
- Generate audience-appropriate communications and documentation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent in a scientific / life science field
- 20+ years’ experience within the pharmaceutical life sciences industry
- Prior experience in a life sciences lab setting, preferably hands-on bench-level research experience
- Prior experience driving life science informatics solution implementation
- Detailed knowledge of data and operational considerations in application landscape development
- 5+ years of people management and a successful track record of associate development
- Experience presenting information in conferences and in large group settings
- Solid understanding and practical application of Pharmaceutical Research and Drug Discovery & Development processes and Biologics workflows
- Well-developed communication skills that enable communicating with junior team members, developers, project managers and stakeholders across various levels of maturity
- Ability to effectively influence and guide clients and internal partners on strategic and tactical efforts
- Demonstrated sense of ownership in the success of engagements with clients
- Strong understanding of key systems and informatics concepts such as SDLC, Agile methodology, ITIL concepts, data modeling and application ecosystem design
- People management and associate development
- Effective problem elucidation skills and setting a strategic approach to challenges
- Deep knowledge of informatics systems and associated application ecosystems in use within life sciences, including eLNs, LIMS systems, lab instrumentation, etc.
- Strategic consulting skills including developing application and data ecosystem roadmaps, providing strategic vision for systems replacement/implementation, driving enterprise projects/programs, and spearheading change management efforts
- Managing teams of business analysts and their deliverables (systems and process requirements, use cases, cost/benefit analyses, etc.)
- Project management skills: resource & effort planning, task planning & scheduling, scope & time management, risk assessment and tracking, vendor management
- Able to facilitate project meetings, prioritize requirements, guide the development team and remove blockers
- Experience in RFIs / RFPs and engaging with commercial partners preferred
- Experience in coding (SQL, Python, Java) and data / metadata principles preferred
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Accrued vacation
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401k with company matching
- Life insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQLPythonJavadata modelingapplication ecosystem designSDLCAgile methodologyITIL conceptsgap analysisbusiness process workflows
Soft skills
communication skillspeople managementassociate developmentproblem elucidationstrategic consultinginfluencing skillsownershipcollaborationmentoringfacilitation