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Job Title: Digital Strategy and Knowledge Management Strategy Consultant
Location: South San Francisco, CA - 94080
Duration: 06 months
Pay rate: $125 - $130 hr. on W2 AI
Job Description:
- The Digital Strategy & Execution (DSE) is a business function within Product Development (PD), client's late-stage clinical development organization. DSE offers business services to PD to sustainably enhance business performance through the development or extension of critical business capabilities (e.g. content & knowledge management, digital transformation of specific business processes)
- As a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy consultant to the PD Knowledge Management Team, you will help PD express its longer-term business needs on KM initiatives in close collaboration with teams in PD and outside of it.
- You will be responsible for developing the strategic vision for KM capabilities in Product Development and implementing solutions in partnership with the business, covering both tech- and non-technology elements in your planning and roadmapping.
- In close alignment with your business partners and client organisations, you will lead business assessments for new capabilities and, as appropriate, the piloting and/or roll-out of new (sub-)capabilities.
Job Responsibilities:
- Thought partner to the PD KM Leader, being the liaison between business and IT on behalf of the PD KM team.
- Provide business consulting on cross-functional capability development initiatives in close collaboration with teams within PD and outside of it
- Partner and collaborate globally with functional leaders across PD to drive and refine the strategic planning for capability expansion.
- Assist the development of cross-functional capability roadmap(s) through workshops and extensive coordination of business leaders and subject matter experts (SMEs).
- Solicit cross-functional and senior leader input into business opportunity definition and projects to meet design, scope and desired outcomes.
- Support the annual strategic planning process, including coordinating roadmap updates (ad-hoc as well as planned) and inputs from the functions.
- Identify, select, and partner with IT, external contractors and vendors to enhance client's digital capabilities; lead projects to bring these capabilities on board.
- Manage a portfolio of digital capabilities and systematically prioritize the opportunities.
Job Requirements:
- To be successful in this role, you will have
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in directly-related field (e.g. Natural Sciences, Computer Science/Engineering, or Medicine)
- At least 15 yrs of industry experience, ideally including operational management or strategy consulting experience.
- Combined with the ability to work in unstructured environments, you will be comfortable with strategy work (incl. business case development, proposal documents/white papers), capable of spanning multiple levels of detail/analysis and used to thinking in a structured way to decompose problems to generate new solutions to old problems
In addition you have/are:
- Experience in Operational Strategy (non-IT), Senior Project Management and/or Functional / Operational roles preferred
- Strong organizational knowledge, leadership and active facilitation to enable effective meetings, productive workshops and strong working relationships
- Enjoy interacting with (and directing) other people in workshop environments and outside
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to connect with (and influence) variety of stakeholders across multiple functions and geographies
About ASK: ASK Consulting is an award-winning technology and professional services recruiting firm servicing Fortune 500 organizations nationally. With 5 nationwide offices, two global delivery centers, and employees in 42 states-ASK Consulting connects people with amazing opportunities
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