As a discipline expert and contact, this role will drive functional performance by designing and implementing business technology solutions aimed at enabling and accelerating delivery of new or improved products. This role will be a technical leader acting at group, department, and cross‐functional levels.
Responsibilities
- Develop and achieve discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key business objectives. Collaborate with experts within function to integrate technical objectives into activities associated with accelerated development of new/improved products or technology.
- Advance technical expertise within function. Proactively demonstrate leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management.
- Mentor and train functional colleagues and assess current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement.
- Ensure quality and effectiveness of key results of major project plans within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.
- Source and identify emerging scientific and technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance. Integrate trends into functional short-term objectives. Advance cross‐discipline technology and direction through generation of data.
- Apply imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives, and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
- Present scientific concepts and results for functional technical and non‐technical leaders as well as potential and existing partners. Maximize impact and value of expertise.
- Responsible for adherence to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, and data security.