Strategic Initiatives Director, IQVIA Technologies Global Delivery

Company: IQVIA Argentina
Location: Plymouth
Posted on: September 16, 2020

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Strategic Initiatives Director, IQVIA Technologies Global Delivery Locations: Plymouth Meeting, PA; London, United Kingdom (GBLON1, 37.5); London, United Kingdom Full time R1144052 Date Posted: 09/10/2020

Job Description Summary

The Strategic Initiatives Director is a new role with responsibility for leading key initiatives aimed at increasing our organizational maturity, operational effectiveness and development of new capabilities to support the evolving product portfolio. In this highly-visible role, you will partner with the VP of Tech Solutions Global Delivery and members of the TSGD leadership team to define and advance these objectives.

Responsibilities

As the Global Delivery Strategic Initiatives Director, you will:

• Lead key strategic initiatives impacting the performance of the Global Delivery team (financial & operational KPIs, internal stakeholder, employee & customer satisfaction)

• Design, plan and manage the execution of organizational transformation initiatives

• Define and manage project scope, timelines and deliverables for each project and map out interdependencies across other projects and functions

• Develop actionable recommendations by soliciting stakeholder input and synthesizing operational data to generate meaningful insights

• Prepare and/or deliver well-crafted presentations / communications to senior executive audiences and other stakeholder groups

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across multiple departments and Business Units

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, project management or equivalent

• Extensive experience leading operating model, organization design and/or process improvement initiatives

• A proven change agent with experience leading transformation for individual teams and organization-wide initiatives

• Highly analytical, with ability to use the power of data combined with industry knowledge to develop insights that challenge and influence the business

• Excellent communicator who can simplify complex concepts or data into easily understood narratives adapted for various audiences

• Excellent organizational skills - structured approach and capable of managing competing numerous work streams simultaneously

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and able to match stakeholder expectations to urgently deliver exceptional results

• Understanding of SaaS business model

• Working knowledge of technology delivery organizations, implementation and support models preferred

• Works effectively in a remote environment and across geographies / cultures

• Demonstrates strong intellectual curiosity; always seeking new approaches and challenging the organization to new levels of success

• Fluency in English required

• Bachelor’s Degree required, MBA a plus

• Flexible, periodic travel for internal meetings

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At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible – to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 67,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com .

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