Sr Dir, Digital Strategy & BPO

Company Overview

Our Mission: At Esperion, we are working tirelessly to deliver innovative medicines that help patients reach their goals today, tomorrow, and into the future.  

Esperion is a fully remote based company with a corporate headquarters located in Ann Arbor, MI.  The Company offers a competitive salary including a performance-based bonus program and stock-based compensation, a comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) matching plan and health insurance, and paid time off and holidays.

Position Title: Senior Director, Digital Strategy and Business Process Optimization

The Senior Director, Digital Strategy and Business Process Optimization role is accountable to create and execute a vision for the company’s digital strategy as well as integrate and optimize the business processes that surround the digital strategy.   This role will map current enterprise business processes, evaluate opportunities for efficiencies, develop/recommend automation options, and execute on them.  This position reports to the Chief Financial Officer.  This role is available as a work from home, remote opportunity.

Preferred Location: Remote – US 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities*

The Senior Director, Digital Strategy and Business Process Optimization:

• Create a vision for the company's digital strategy and align it with the organization's overall objectives.
• Champions the development and execution of the digital roadmap and overarching strategic plan for enterprise business processes that includes short- and long-term actions, ensuring effective work intake processes and prioritization based on strategic impact and resource availability.
• Leads the application of data and technologies including but not limited to: ERP systems cloud computing; advanced analytics; machine learning to enhance enterprise business processes; and transaction automation.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders, including business leaders and process owners, external consultants, and enterprise information management provider to align processes with their requirements and execute the digital and data innovation cycle from use cases to deployment.
• Champions the deployment of successful digital or data initiatives on-time, on-budget and ensures value-drivers are delivered and sustained including leading business process impact assessment, end-user training, and coordination of system testing.
• Manage organizational change to support the adoption of new technologies and business process transformations.
• Identifies, designs and generates standards to promote efficiencies and best practices for end-users of enterprise business data and digital technologies.
• Seeks to automate and simplify repetitive tasks, promoting operational excellence, process standardization and harmonization where appropriate with enterprise business processes.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, including process maps and training materials, to facilitate knowledge sharing across regions and business units.
• Create a vision and execute on enterprise KPIs to measure operational performance, ensuring the selection and deployment of a BI solution for quick visibility.
• Monitors emerging systems and data technologies and assesses technical solutions and data architecture. 
• Develop and implement governance frameworks to continuously assess and improve global business processes for operational excellence.
• Establish policies, guidelines, and controls to ensure adherence to business process standards and manage performance, compliance, and risk.
• Executes master data strategies.

* additional duties and responsibilities not listed here may be required

Qualifications (Education & Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, data science or information systems and a minimum of 12 years of experience in strategic development, business processes, ERP, IT, digital / data technologies, in the pharmaceutical industry; or equivalent experience and education.  Master’s or MBA preferred.
• Has a whole-enterprise perspective, and strong understanding of the key business drivers that yield results and proven ability to identify innovative ideas through deployment that optimize processes / create value. 
• Significant track record of process improvements in enterprise business processes through implementation of ERP or other enterprise business systems including developing roadmaps and project management of successful on-time and on-budget project executions that delivered the identified efficiencies.
• Proven ability to navigate organization, and identify, align and integrate cross-functional resources into cohesive teams in a highly matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated supply chain acumen and experience implementing enterprise technology or data system including change management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, organized and able to prioritize program execution activities to meet multiple deadlines.
• Strategic mindset with a deep passion for innovation, digital transformation, and driving business outcomes.
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, written and verbal English communication skills
• Competency in use of business and project management computer software (such as MS Project and MSOffice).
• Approximately 10 – 20 % travel required.