Major accountabilities:

• Collates inputs to cross-functional vision, strategy, metrics of success, long and short-term objectives
• Owns the coordination and quality control of portfolio reporting, partnering with Innovation and Product Managers and line function AI points of accountability to enable up to date status review of active programs, updates, issues, risks
• Create transparency of Drug Development AI portfolio & metrics ensuring alignment with overall innovation strategy while proactively performing portfolio analysis to generate strategic insights to inform decision making
• Proactively identify opportunities to increase service levels and mitigate any risks or issues
• Manages governance, preparation and coordination of portfolio decision-making, including funding, of executive reporting
• Maintain real-time visibility of vendor and partnership operations
• Oversee overall compliance of the portfolio
• Collect and respond to feedback and improvement suggestions and drive continuous improvement opportunities
• Proactively identify operating model improvement areas
• Creates, evolves and maintains portfolio dashboards to ensure transparency of the portfolio progress, risks, impact etc.

Experience/Professional requirement:

• Education Minimum: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Education Desirable: Master's degree in a relevant field.
• 5 + years of experience in major IT transformation project and portfolio management, preferably in the technology innovation context
• Financial management
• Demonstrated complex program risk management skills
• Experience of collaborating across boundaries, interacting with senior stakeholders
• Outstanding analytical and communication skills, verbal and written

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