The Role: 

Reporting to the Vice President, Information Technology, the Director, IT Business Partner – Commercial & Medical Affairs will be familiar with leading a skilled IT team in implementing IT solutions across the pharmaceutical Commercial and Medical Affairs spaces.  In this hands-on role, you will work closely with the emerging Commercial and Medical Affairs teams to help identify, design, and implement critical business applications in support of Nuvalent’s planned commercial launch.

 Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the support of key IT applications for the Commercial and Medical Affairs organizations.
• Lead project lifecycle activities such as planning, requirement gathering, design, build, testing, implementation and post-implementation support of Commercial and Medical Affairs applications.
• Act as the IT liaison between internal business partners and outside vendors.
• Responsible for all change control activities for Commercial and Medical Affairs
• Lead business stakeholders through the Business Analysis life cycle
• Identify and promote new platform features and drive adoption.
• Provide technical expertise on integration technologies such as APIs, Web Services and ETL to simplify our system landscape and enhance user experience.
• Ensure all service SLAs are met by developing strong partnerships with service providers.
• Assist in development and maintenance of the Nuvalent Project Management and Business Program

 Competencies Include: 

• Excellent problem solving, communication, and organizational skills are required.
• Flexibility with changing priorities, ability to work well under pressure, and ability to assume responsibility for unfamiliar tasks is required.
• Ability to communicate effectively within a context and style that resonates with end users is required.
• Ability to strategically plan, organize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously is required. 
• Strong work ethic with an ability to meet deadlines is required. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or advanced degree in information technology/business solutions or equivalent work experience is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience leading technology driven transformations.
• Experience in the establishment of Commercial and Medical Affairs IT systems for newly formed departments.
• Extensive knowledge of Commercial and Medical Affairs processes and procedures, as well as corresponding regulations.
• A minimum of three (3) years hands-on technical Veeva Commercial and Medical suite experience required. Additionally, experience with the new Veeva CRM product is desirable.
• Experience establishing field sales and MSL team support models and technology packages.
• Experience with SDLC change control processes.
• Experience with the implementation and management of cloud/SaaS systems.
• Experience working with third parties in providing key Commercial and Medical Affairs capabilities.
• Certification in Business Analysis (ex. PMI-PBA) desirable.
• A minimum of three (3) years’ experience with Smartsheet as a project management system. PMP certification desirable
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work effectively in a WFH environment using self-management principles.
• Some off-hours or evening work may be required.