Job Description

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Provides strategic leadership to deliver new capabilities and optimize existing applications, ensuring alignment with the company's mission and core values to effect positive change and create organizational structure.

· Leads complex operational efforts through subordinates to ensure the effective administration of business processes and services, achieving critical goals within the assigned business unit(s).

· Drives continuous improvement to optimize the application development lifecycle through process optimization, and the adoption of innovative technologies such as automation and artificial intelligence.

· Ensures that budgets and schedules are within company requirements, with significant organizational responsibility for planning, staffing, budgeting, expense priority management, and the recommendation and implementation of current practices.

· Directs and oversees the broad activities of the business unit(s) by interpreting, applying, and implementing company-wide policies and procedures relevant to the assigned functional area(s).

· Provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to all direct reports to maintain an engaged and productive workforce, partnering with Human Resources on employee relations issues.

· Collaborates with employees to establish clear and concise development plans, ensuring succession planning and the advancement of future leaders within the organization.

· Acts as a strategic leader with broad-based knowledge of the business and industry, providing strategic solutions to specific business lines and/or divisions, with broad decision-making authority within the functional areas.

· Develops strategic plans to ensure the successful implementation of action plans and objectives, requiring in-depth knowledge of the company, competitive environment, technology, and economic or social implications of organizational activities.

· Establishes protocols for strategic interdepartmental cooperation, motivating the development of new tools and methods for dealing with complex crisis situations.

· Makes critical decisions with significant organizational impact, managerial and budgetary responsibilities, where erroneous decisions could have a serious impact on the overall success of long-term company operations.

· Interacts with all levels of the organization to manage the business, regularly engaging with executives and/or major customers, including SVPs, Presidents, and possibly the CEO.

· Represents the organization to external customers, frequently engaging in highly visible activities such as speaking, negotiating, influencing other executives and/or academics, and representing the organization on matters of great significance.

· Performs other related duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Little to no travel is expected for this position.

SUPERVISION:

· Responsible for the direct supervision of various levels of ITS Application Development staff.

EDUCATION AND REQUIRED CREDENTIALS:

· Bachelor’s Degree; Advanced Degree preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

· 10+ years’ experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

· 5+ years’ experience internal senior management level role (e.g., Director or higher); or 5+ years’ external experience in a senior management level role.

· Demonstrates deep knowledge and extensive experience in the system development life cycle (SDLC), including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of applications.

· Possesses deep technical expertise in design and development in at least one area such as SAP, Workday, Salesforce, Java, data integrations, data analytics, artificial intelligence, or an equivalent technology.

· Demonstrated experience managing one or more departments.

· Strong management skills with the ability to lead cohesive and productive teams.

· Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management through diplomacy and tact.

· Excellent oral and written communication skills.

The rate of pay for this position will depend on the successful candidate’s work location and qualifications, including relevant education, work experience, skills, and competencies.

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Benefit Overview: This position offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, parental leave and potential for performance-based bonuses depending on company and individual performance.

Fresenius Medical Care is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, national origin, age, disability, military service, or other non-merit-based factors