Sr. Director IT, Business Solutions & Data - BCD
About The Position
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Within the BioProduction Group (BPG), we are evolving how we leverage data, technology, and business insight to accelerate innovation, improve operational performance, and better serve our customers. The Sr. Director, Business Solutions & Data – BCD will play a critical role in this transformation. This leader will partner closely with business leaders across operations and commercial functions to define complex business problems, shape data-driven solutions, and enable scalable capabilities across BPG. This is not a traditional IT delivery role. Instead, it is a strategic role focused on problem definition, value creation, and enterprise scalability, working in close partnership with centralized technology and data teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in IT, data, or business transformation roles, demonstrated experience leading teams
- Experience partnering with business leaders in operations and/or commercial environments
- Strong understanding of data, analytics, and digital technologies
- Strong business acumen and ability to connect technology to business outcomes
- Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and define structured approaches
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Strategic thinking with a focus on scalability and reuse
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to engage senior leadership
Nice To Haves
- Experience in product- or platform-oriented operating models
- Familiarity with AI/ML applications in manufacturing, supply chain, or life sciences
- Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations
- Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent)
Responsibilities
- Partner with BCD leadership to understand strategic priorities and operational challenges
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear, structured problem statements
- Identify opportunities to improve outcomes such as SIOP effectiveness, inventory optimization, and cycle time reduction
- Define data requirements across commercial, operational, and process domains
- Identify gaps in current data availability, quality, and integration
- Collaborate with enterprise data teams to enable analytics and AI-driven use cases
- Define scalable solutions leveraging enterprise platforms and emerging technologies
- Ensure solutions are designed for reuse across BPG (BCD, SUD, PPA, FSD)
- Partner with centralized engineering and delivery teams to execute solutions
- Engage across operations, commercial, and finance functions
- Identify opportunities to scale solutions beyond BCD into other BPG divisions
- Drive alignment and adoption of standardized approaches
- Define and track business outcomes and success metrics
- Ensure solutions move from concept to adoption and scale
- Continuously refine solutions based on business feedback and performance
Benefits
- health, dental, vision, 401(k)
- career development opportunities
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
