Description

• Full Time

About the Job

The Senior Director of IT Strategy Enablement will serve as the enterprise integrator between IT strategy, financial governance, portfolio execution, and organizational enablement. This leader ensures technology investments are intentional, compliant, measurable, and adopted — while enabling rapid evolution of FMI's IT operating model. The roll will support the implementation of IT's strategy to drive significant enterprise impact, grow our business, and realize operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Enablement
  • Partner with IT Leadership Team to drive multi-year IT strategy and operating model
  • Maintain enterprise architecture alignment across R&D, diagnostics, commercial, and corporate platforms
  • Drive IT-internal cross functional alignment and efficiencies
  • Participate in IT in enterprise-level governance forums and ensure consistent alignment across ET, SLT, and cross-functional bodies
• Portfolio
  • Drive IT portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, and capacity planning
  • Serve and key point of contact for channeling IT projects into the Infrastructure & Operations Portfolio Development Committee
  • Translate business priorities into investment-ready initiatives with clear outcomes
  • Ensure portfolio and execution models align with GxP, data privacy, and SOX IT controls
  • Support audit-ready documentation and decision traceability
  • Oversee portfolio influence at the enterprise level, ensuring prioritization decisions considering cross-functional impacts and overarching business strategy
• Financial Management
  • Partner with Finance and functional stakeholders on IT financial transparency, run/grow/transform views, and vendor optimization
  • Establish investment guardrails within IT regarding (ROI, IRR, NPV, regulatory risk, data impact)
  • Monitor and drive adherence to IT financial commitments and budget
  • Facilitate long term financial planning
• Communications and Change Management
  • Lead enterprise IT change management, communication, and adoption strategies
  • Build leadership-ready narratives for transformation initiatives
  • Ensure organizational readiness across new platforms, processes, and operating models
  • Champion FMI's leadership behaviors and values, reinforcing culture expectations for people managers and senior leaders.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, information security, computer science, a similar related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years in life sciences, biotech, diagnostics, or regulated technology environments
• 5+ years management experience
• Proven leadership across strategy, PMO/portfolio, finance, change, and communication
• Deep understanding of GxP, data privacy, validation, and regulated delivery
• Executive-level communication and storytelling capability
• Experience leading operating model transformations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong leadership and change management history with demonstrated ability to gain trust and support from cross-functional peers and teams and effectively drive organizational change.
• Experience and strong knowledge of IT Service Management processes.
• Experience with building and deploying a secure SDLC program
• Experience defining, implementing, and complying with information security policies, procedures, and standards
• Awareness of regulatory compliance (SOX, FDA) and role of systems in supporting compliance
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and ability to deal with rapidly changing environments
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and contributing to enterprise-level governance structures.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution at scale.
• Understanding of HIPAA and importance of patient safety and data privacy regulations and guidelines
• Commitment to reflect FMI's values: Integrity, Courage, and Passion

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Boston, MA is $253,000 - $298,000 per year. The salary range is commensurate with FMI's compensation practice and considers factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, external market conditions, criticality of role, and internal equity. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for FMI benefits.

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About Foundation Medicine

Confidence, or the belief that we need to check every box before applying for a job, can sometimes hold us back from going after a role that inspires us. At Foundation Medicine there's no such thing as the 'perfect' applicant, and our company is a place where every employee can make an impact and continue to grow whatever background they may have or path they may have taken. So, as long as you meet the basic qualifications for a role, please apply if you see a position that would make you excited to come into Foundation Medicine every day and help us transform precision medicine.

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