Description As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees. Directs employees to ensure that global reporting obligations are fulfilled. Provides strategic planning and execution of the design and development of the Global Safety Platform (GSP) and its associated processes and data flow designs. Implement functionality in platform with the vendor and support the implementation of strategic goals of other organizational units such as Global Case Management, Biostatistics and Data Sciences and Medical Information. Conceptually plans the solutions within the system directly with the system vendor and other customers of the vendor. Conceptually plans the architecture of the solutions towards the overall GSP, thereby coordinating information flow and process design. Act as a product owner in the development of a process within one module of the GSP. Represent BI at the broader vendor meetings with executives and ensure flawless delivery and execution of Global Safety Platform processes.Duties & Responsibilities Provide strategic planning and execution of the design and development of the Global Safety Platform (GSP) and its associated processes and data flow designs. Drive the development of the PSPV systems and business processes and their integration and conceptually plan the architecture of the solutions towards the overall GSP, thereby coordinating information flow and process design. Proactively review set up and identify improvement opportunities and functional gaps and contribute to the strategic goals of PSPV. Represent the professional expertise to other companies or at conferences. Conceptually plans the solutions within the system directly with the system vendor and other customers of the vendor. Conceptually plans the architecture of the solutions towards the overall GSP, thereby coordinating information flow and process design. Lead and oversee designing, implementing, validating and training of the GSP. Set up processes for the flawless execution of the GSP as a whole and for all its components of case processing, analytics and signaling with the team of SBS and partnering functions.  Assess changes required to processes for any system update, develop test strategy and test case set up and execute with the team of testers the testing plan. Outline training needs. Perform validation testing and summary and production testing, to ensure correct roll out of new system features with regards to complex case processing processes, distribution to health authorities and partners or aggregate reports for authorities and all other system functionalities.Evaluate impact of changes and running system to interfacing tools and systems and steer modifications as needed.Ensure that the processes are efficient, robust and well documented, implement measures were needed to ensure compliance against world wide regulations. Strategically consider emerging technologies for their application in GSP to make processes more efficient and to increase quality. Keep abreast of emerging technologies as they pertain to the GSP functionalities and artificial intelligence methods to ensure continuous improvement of the GSP and sustainablity of the GSP processes. Lead cross functional internal working groups touching the processes that individual supports and in working groups outside of BI with other system users or regulatory authorities. Guide and/or lead other colleagues, internal and external customer and external providers on Patient Safety and PV operations topics. Full leadership responsibility in terms of administrative and functional reporting. This includes the following: Formulates and is responsible for goals and targets through appropriate resource and budget planning.Disciplinary and/or professional leadership of members of the team. Leads experts of VG 3, 4 and occasionally upper tarif.Carries responsibility for the professional development of the assigned employees.Ensures high quality deliverables according to SOPs and guidelines, implementation and adherence to standards. Performs functional coaching of team members. Performance management, training and mentorship. Ensures that all staff are well trained in the GPV processes, in the system development processes and IT interactions and dependencies.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree, in a computer Science field or other field relating to business systems in a healthcare environment 10+ years of professional experience in a scientific, clinical, and/or medical space 5+ years of leadership experience in a global environment with direct and doted lines (matrix supervisor) Working expertise might be partially compensated by broad and deep topic specific knowledge. Executive presence. Sound Knowledge in Pharmacovigilance. Sound Knowledge of Scrum Methodology and agile working tools and in database design methods and technology. Broad knowledge of project and change management. Ability to make decisions independently. Ability to prioritize workload and perform under stress in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Must be able to communicate and resolve issues effectively with inter/intra departments through strong interpersonal skills. Must have problem solving skills and the ability to organize time effectively Fluency in written and verbal English.

Eligibility Requirements

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.

Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required)

Must be 18 years of age or older Compensation The base salary range for this position is $200,000 to $316,000.   The position may be eligible for a role specific discretionary bonus, relocation, and/or other compensation elements.  We continuously review market data and may adjust salary ranges as needed in the future.  Actual compensation will be based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications, and other factors permitted by law. For an overview of our benefits please click here.