Vice President of Business Applications Details

Vice President of Business Applications

CooperSurgical - Trumbull, CT

Employment Type : Full-Time

The Vice President of Business Applications is a senior member of the IT leadership team and reports to the SVP of IT. He or she will be responsible for managing CSI’s enterprise applications such as Dataflow, MS Navision, MS 365, Salesforce, Business Intelligence Reporting and other applications. The successful candidate will have experience working with senior management to collaborate on business objectives and solutions. She or he must have strong leadership skills to build and manage an effective Business Applications team to support systems and reporting requirements for the business. This position will be a key business partner to functions across the organization. The position will lead the development of a strategic vision of our application environment. Her or his team will be responsible for supporting business application users and working with remote support teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic global leadership across the business application function
• Partner with the functional leaders and their organizations to create robust Business Application and Analytics services roadmaps. Ensure these roadmaps are well understood throughout the business functions and meet emerging requirements
• Oversee the success of Business Application projects in alignment with the agreed portfolio roadmap and integrated with CSI's short term and long-term goals
• Collaborate with other teams to understand current and future requirements; suggest solutions and alternatives
• Sets the strategy for “ways of working”, i.e. Agile, DevOps, Digital, Pairing, Test Driven Development, etc
• Transform business processes through technology
• Bring innovative, external leading practice ideas to all areas of CSI’s business
• Organize and lead a highly technical global team for scale and growth
• Specify and implement standards, methods, and procedures for inspecting, testing, and evaluating the quality, efficiency and reliability of business applications
• Establish robust technology risk management framework including Information security, privacy and disaster recovery.
• Foster a culture of trusted partnership, service and continuous improvement
• Establish and meet service level commitments to support reliable and efficient daily operating capabilities
• Managing large capital and operating budgets
• Ensure Business Applications initiatives and projects are well managed and deliver on expectations - functionality, timeliness, and cost
• Cultivate a deep and broad team leadership and technical talent to deliver results and support future growth
• Lead and coach the Business Applications team to their full potential and develop their careers

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and capabilities:

• Excellent leadership, management, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to listen, synthesize, mediate, lead and explain at all levels
• Ability to listen, manage conflicts and achieve compromise while meeting meaningful goals and respecting other parties' perspectives
• Ability to influence others' behavior toward the company goals; high integrity and transparency
• Success managing complex systems implementation projects
• Success as a business focused, change driven, credible leader in a fast-growing technology company
• Strong project management skills with SDLC and Agile development
• Strong work ethic with an internal motivation to lead success
• Project Management knowledge and discipline
• Ability to build strong and sustaining professional relationships at all levels of the organization
• Strong knowledge and experience of BI and other business applications
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Ability to anticipate needs of the business & develop the team to stay ahead of the curve
• Expertise in understanding complex technology & applying it in a practical way to create business solutions

Minimum Experience:

• Bachelors or advanced degree in an analytic discipline such as engineering, economics or information management
• Experience designing and presenting IT solutions
• Senior level application management experience (12+ years)
• In depth knowledge of ERP, CRM, HCM and BI processes
• Experience of managing Dev Ops, QA and Support team
• Merger & Acquisition integration preferred
• SOX, HIPAA & GDPR knowledge preferred
• 12+ years people management
• 3+ years in a large public international company preferred

Our Benefits:

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical/dental/vision insurance coverage, 401(k), paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, paid family leave and many other perks and benefits. Please visit us at www.coopersurgical.com to learn more about CooperSurgical and the benefits of becoming a member of our team.

About CooperSurgical:

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.CooperSurgical is a leader in manufacturing and marketing multiple trusted and innovative brands that assist clinicians in improving the health of women, babies and families worldwide. Through an aggressive growth and diversification strategy, CooperSurgical has evolved its portfolio of over 600 products to include products and services used primarily by obstetricians and gynecologists in surgical and medical procedures wherever they occur: in hospitals, surgical centers, medical offices and fertility clinics