Sr. Director, It Program Management

Description

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring many talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. Director, Product Management supports our business goals by partnering with our teams (engineers and developers) to develop repeatable and production-level products in support of our internal teams and external opportunities. This role will lead the Product Development Methodology for Enterprise Data & Intelligence across business and technical leaders to define the data products, enterprise strategy, development plan, product roadmap, lifecycle and portfolio execution.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the business strategy and customer expectations; assist with resourcing to coordinate work activities and task completion.
• Bring global teams together for one goal.
• Manage Product owners and analyst teams. Responsibilities include line management, performance management, and professional development for those employees along with interviewing and onboarding new team members.
• Assess business and technical tradeoffs between solution options.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach junior members across the business.
• Lead the product team and matrixed members in the creation of the overall product vision, strategy, development plan, roadmap execution and lifecycle.
• Lead team to translate and prioritize business needs into technical and analytical requirements that feed into product development and overall design.
• Build and develop relationships with internal and external partners.
• Identify opportunities for new products and expand existing product capabilities.
• Manage the prioritization of product features, modifications, attributes, and the communication of these priorities to the development team.
• Set up tools and processes to facilitate communication and collaboration between team members.
• Define, monitor, manage and communicate platform KPIs
• Prioritize and deliver the work needed for multiple internal and external customer facing products
• Clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Outstanding leadership, communication, presentation and leadership skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Degree (BS/BA) in in Information Systems or Management, Statistics, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or Engineering, or relevant industry experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Understanding of data and analytic model development, as well as an understanding of database concepts and architecture
• Experience leading a high performing team and working across multiple stakeholders to deliver results while educating and growing team members. Global experience is preferred.
• Understanding of business value related to features and functions
• In-depth knowledge of agile methodology for project management, roadmap, issue, and backlog management systems like Azure DevOps.
• Ability to effectively manage conflicting needs of stakeholders
• Understanding of business intelligence strategy and/or data science and engineering workflows.

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