Strategic Alliance Manager Traits and Genomics Morrisville, NC

Strategic Alliance Manager Traits and Genomics

 

Job ID: Job-2551

location:       Morrisville, NC

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $170K - $225K

 

REQUIREMENTS:

 

• Academic degree (MD PhD) in biology, (bio)chemistry, microbiology and outstanding achievements/records in BCS R&D focus areas

• Broad knowledge and longstanding successful experience in Agriculture R&D management (at least 10 years)

• Broad knowledge and overview of Planning and Portfolio management

• Strong strategic thinking and solid understanding of the agriculture R&D and business landscape and adjacent industries (Supply and Food, Healthcare, Machinery, etc)

• Outstanding experience in innovation and partnership management

• Strong team leadership skills and proven experience to work with various stakeholders within an organization

• Excellent oral and written communication, moderation, presentation and influencing skills

• Excellent organizational and portfolio management skills

• Relationship management skills, comfortable around a diverse set of people

 

Performs competitive analyses to identify partnering options and does support open innovation approaches for the assigned R&D function/indication. Manage multiple interfaces and acts as a key point of contact to guide and evaluate the external partnering requests and scouting activities and drives the decision to partner in close contact with the R&D function/indication and Business Development and Licensing.

 

Oversee the portfolio of partnerships, and further develops the partnering portfolio of a function/indication towards defined goals (achievement of milestones and pipeline contributions) along the principles of alliance management excellence and corporate compliance and plans and tracks the function/indication partnering budget.

 

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement partnering and Open Innovation strategy jointly with the respective assigned R&D function/indication and the Business Units

• Identify the key targets for partnerships/alliances and define a tier prioritization for the  portfolio(s)

• Manage multiple interfaces and coordinate tactics for scouting and scientific evaluation of the best opportunities based on defined valuation metrics that can meet technology/product need

• Pro-actively seek the right expertise and R&D portfolio managers to assess new opportunities towards an integrated R&D approach

• Identify the most added value partner options in close cooperation with the respective R&D function/indication and in alignment with the integrated R&D strategy, the key innovation networks and open innovation approaches

• Ensure timely implementation of partnering portfolio according to the tier prioritization. Pro-actively identify gaps and/or pitfalls and identify solutions

• Oversee the partnering portfolio and further develop the portfolio of the respective R&D function/indication to meet R&D targets and technology gaps

• Collaborate to major strategic alliance negotiations together with legal, BD&L provide overall oversight for advisory board meetings of functions

• Implement and further develop excellence in Alliance management and establish trustful relationship to both internal stakeholders and external partners Planning and tracking of function/indication(s) partnering budget and ensure timely reporting to the R&D function/indications and leadership teams

• Present partnering activities of function/indication in management meetings and at external conferences.

 

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PAID RELOCATION. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.

 

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Strategic Alliance Manager Traits and Genomics

Strategic Alliance Manager Traits and Genomics

 

Job ID: Job-2551

location:       Morrisville, NC

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $170K - $225K

 

REQUIREMENTS:

 

• Academic degree (MD PhD) in biology, (bio)chemistry, microbiology and outstanding achievements/records in BCS R&D focus areas

• Broad knowledge and longstanding successful experience in Agriculture R&D management (at least 10 years)

• Broad knowledge and overview of Planning and Portfolio management

• Strong strategic thinking and solid understanding of the agriculture R&D and business landscape and adjacent industries (Supply and Food, Healthcare, Machinery, etc)

• Outstanding experience in innovation and partnership management

• Strong team leadership skills and proven experience to work with various stakeholders within an organization

• Excellent oral and written communication, moderation, presentation and influencing skills

• Excellent organizational and portfolio management skills

• Relationship management skills, comfortable around a diverse set of people

 

Performs competitive analyses to identify partnering options and does support open innovation approaches for the assigned R&D function/indication. Manage multiple interfaces and acts as a key point of contact to guide and evaluate the external partnering requests and scouting activities and drives the decision to partner in close contact with the R&D function/indication and Business Development and Licensing.

 

Oversee the portfolio of partnerships, and further develops the partnering portfolio of a function/indication towards defined goals (achievement of milestones and pipeline contributions) along the principles of alliance management excellence and corporate compliance and plans and tracks the function/indication partnering budget.

 

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement partnering and Open Innovation strategy jointly with the respective assigned R&D function/indication and the Business Units

• Identify the key targets for partnerships/alliances and define a tier prioritization for the  portfolio(s)

• Manage multiple interfaces and coordinate tactics for scouting and scientific evaluation of the best opportunities based on defined valuation metrics that can meet technology/product need

• Pro-actively seek the right expertise and R&D portfolio managers to assess new opportunities towards an integrated R&D approach

• Identify the most added value partner options in close cooperation with the respective R&D function/indication and in alignment with the integrated R&D strategy, the key innovation networks and open innovation approaches

• Ensure timely implementation of partnering portfolio according to the tier prioritization. Pro-actively identify gaps and/or pitfalls and identify solutions

• Oversee the partnering portfolio and further develop the portfolio of the respective R&D function/indication to meet R&D targets and technology gaps

• Collaborate to major strategic alliance negotiations together with legal, BD&L provide overall oversight for advisory board meetings of functions

• Implement and further develop excellence in Alliance management and establish trustful relationship to both internal stakeholders and external partners Planning and tracking of function/indication(s) partnering budget and ensure timely reporting to the R&D function/indications and leadership teams

• Present partnering activities of function/indication in management meetings and at external conferences.

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

PAID RELOCATION. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.

 

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Strategic Alliance Manager Breeding and Biologics

Strategic Alliance Manager Breeding and Biologics

 

 

Job ID: Job-2550

 

location:       Morrisville, NC

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $170K - $225K +bonus

       

Requirements:

 

• Academic degree (MD PhD) in biology, (bio)chemistry, microbiology and outstanding achievements/records in BCS R&D focus areas

• Broad knowledge and longstanding successful experience in Agriculture R&D management (at least 10 years)

• Broad knowledge and overview of Planning and Portfolio management

• Strong strategic thinking and solid understanding of the agriculture R&D and business landscape and adjacent industries (Supply and Food, Healthcare, Machinery, etc)

• Outstanding experience in innovation and partnership management

• Strong team leadership skills and proven experience to work with various stakeholders within an organization

• Excellent oral and written communication, moderation, presentation and influencing skills

• Excellent organizational and portfolio management skills

• Solution / goal and action oriented

• Relationship management skills, comfortable around a diverse set of people

 

Leverage expertise and deliver R&D pipeline contributions by developing and implementing a worldwide partnering strategy jointly with the R&D function/indication and the business units.

 

 

Perform systematic competitive analyses to identify partnering options and supports open innovation approaches for the assigned R&D function/indication. The position holder manages multiple interfaces and acts as a key point of contact within division to guide and evaluate the external partnering requests and scouting activities and drives the decision to partner in close contact with the R&D function/indication and Business Development and Licensing.

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

PAID RELOCATION. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.

 

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Teamcenter System Admin & Build Support

Teamcenter System Admin & Build Support

 

 

Job ID: Job-2549

location:       Erie, PA

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $48 p/h all inclusiv

 

Description:   

10 month assignment

 

Technical/Functional Skills • C/C++

• Teamcenter ITK

• Teamcenter Style sheets & Transfermodes

• Java/Java Swing

• Java Portal API (TcEng)

• PLMXML

• XML/XSL/XSL-FO

• HTML (for reporting)

• SVN\CVS

 

Experience Required (in Yrs) 2-4 Yrs.

Roles & Responsibilities Teamcenter System administration

• Install and configure Teamcenter (all layers, all modules, and interfaces & integrations, as needed) for all environments: development, QA & Production.

• Perform tests for environment integrity and performance.

• Package & deploy custom codes and assist various project teams during their solution validation (unit, system, and user acceptance testing)

• Continuously improve and optimize system architectural elements, such as FMS\FSC, Enterprise servers & pool managers, web servers, distribution, clients, translations servers, etc. for enhanced performance and scalability.

• Act as Level 3 Teamcenter Expert to resolve key systemic production issues sent from application support team (Level 2 & 1). Off-business hours involvement is often required for urgent production systemic issue, and deploying system changes.

• Monitor system regularly; ensure that the Teamcenter services & automated scripts scheduled on the server machines are properly running,

• Create and develop scripts or 3rd party solutions to enable effective system health monitoring.

• Ensuring that the QTP script in place for tracking Teamcenter PROD instance availability shows good metrics on availability.

• Perform Teamcenter system administrator activities, such as removing process & data locks,

• Be a part of IM team, and co-ordinate directly with different IM support teams (e.g. DBA team, JBoss team) to ensure that all the environments are running.

 

Teamcenter Build Administration

• Build administrator resources will also be responsible for maintaining source code & system configuration, and will be required to provide code quality checks against coding standards and architecture standards.

• Own designed system to manage all custom codes delivered by various project development teams.

• Provide guidance to teams and set rules to maintain full controllership of the custom codes. (Included in the scope, but limited, are BMIDE templates, ACL, Workflows, Organizations, Preferences, & any other Teamcenter configuration elements)

• Create tags & branches for different environments on a daily basis submitted by the developers.

• Communicate to the System administration & deployment team with all details for them to compile and deploy the code libraries in the respective environment.

• Track Changes Requests submitted by various project teams; assist IM teams in reviewing Change Request, and advise about the short & long term impacts of Change Requests; test & demonstrate potential impacts, when requested.

• Perform regular code reviews & advise developers, as needed.

• Perform BMIDE changes in different environments, on needed.

• Maintain the controllership of the master codes, templates, etc. for all environments.

 

Generic Managerial Skills • Ability to work independently; lead small teams focused on specific work streams of larger projects

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Good Analytical skill, Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment

• Eagerness to mentor junior team members

• Proficient use of Power Point presentation tool, and MS office tools. Proven writing skills for mass communication. Ability to document use cases, requirements and relevant technical documentation.

• Demonstrated leadership and team-building skills

• Knowledge of six sigma is added advantage

 

PLEASE QUOTE YOUR BEST RATE

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JDA/Manugistics Lead Engineer w/Websphere Commerce Pittsburgh, PA

 

JDA/Manugistics Lead Engineer w/Websphere Commerce

 

 

Job ID: Job-2548

location:       Pittsburgh, PA

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $60K - $90K

 

Description:   

Fortune 500 company located outside of Pittsburgh, PA has excellent opportunity for career minded individual with expertise in JDA Manugistics/Demand.

 

 

Responsibilities include

Installation and configuration of IBM WebSphere Commerce v6 – 7 on Linux, AIX and Windows

Maintain environments by applying necessary fixpacks/feature packs

Define and maintain architecture and technology standards and best practices for applications, middleware, and databases

Configure IBM WebSphere BANDDS build & deployment tool for Commerce applications or WCBD

Installation and configuration of DB2 for WebSphere Commerce

Proactively monitor and maintain the commerce sites and related systems, including monitoring, capacity planning, operational services, integration of enhancements, and other administrative efforts that pertain to the environment

 

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree

5-7 years' experience to include some Project Management

Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio

General understanding of Network technologies (i.e. OSI Layer), Application security, DB2

Databases, Websphere MQ Messaging, JMS Messaging, AIX and Linux OS

Experience building solutions in a distributed architecture and ability to understand the interactions from end to end

Able to analyze and troubleshoot issues in WebSphere Commerce at the jvm level

Thorough understanding of IBM Websphere commerce and IBM http

Strong scripting skills and the ability to create complex SQL statements

 

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Project Manager/eBusiness/Digital Design Harrisburg, PA

Project Manager/eBusiness/Digital Design

 

 

Job ID: Job-2546

location:       Harrisburg, PA

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $110K - $125K

Description:   

 

This Project Manager of eBusiness/Digital Design role is newly created as well as very high profile role with a great career trajectory.

 

 

The position will provide leadership and manage high-impact global IT projects that transform the company's Digital Experience. Experience should include implementing external website technologies including search, content management systems, eCatalogs, SEO/SEM, social communities, mobile web and 3rd party packages - products like Endeca, Hybris, Adobe CQ5, etc...

 

 

A strong understanding of Digital Experience, Content Management, & eMarketing strategies is essential as well as the ability to review Site Analytics and Business Models to gain strategic insights as well as to develop recommendations to optimize Customer Experience and Generate Demand.

 

 

Your IT PM background should included managing multiple, complex projects - leading cross functional teams that deliver quality solutions.

 

 

Experience with established project management methodologies is key as well as a solid uunderstanding of IT systems : system design, databases and programming concepts especially HTML, browsers, Javascript, Web Services and AJAX.

 

This role will work closely with the business and the IT teams globally and combine someone's design, implementation, web, project leadership and business acumen experience. You will:

 

Be the strategic leader managing high impact Digital IT projects; responsible for delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

Demonstrate thought leadership in Digital and internet technology trends to lead the definition and implementation of programs supporting Digital strategy.

Lead all phases of IT project including problem definition, analysis, solution conceptualization, requirement definition, development and implementation including authoring related documents such as business and functional requirements.

 

 

 

 

ETL Developer

ETL Developer

 

 

Job ID: Job-2547

location:       Chicago, IL

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $90K - $120K

Primary Skills:

Description:   

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or related field

3+ years hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying and supporting ETL solutions utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) on SQL Server 2008 R2 or later version

3+ years of experience design, developing, supporting and troubleshooting medium to large sized solutions utilizing ETL tools

Proficiency with Informatica Tools

Design and develop or modify ETL processes that load data for the data warehouse users or for web applications using Informatica

Take ownership for issues to reach resolutions to prevent recurrences

Provide assistance with ETL design, development, and performance tuning

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

NO PAID RELOCATION. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship from the employer for a visa.

 

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Project Manager/eBusiness/Digital Design Harrisburg, PA

Project Manager/eBusiness/Digital Design

 

 

Job ID: Job-2546

location:       Harrisburg, PA

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $110K - $125K

Description:   

 

This Project Manager of eBusiness/Digital Design role is newly created as well as very high profile role with a great career trajectory.

 

 

The position will provide leadership and manage high-impact global IT projects that transform the company's Digital Experience. Experience should include implementing external website technologies including search, content management systems, eCatalogs, SEO/SEM, social communities, mobile web and 3rd party packages - products like Endeca, Hybris, Adobe CQ5, etc...

 

 

A strong understanding of Digital Experience, Content Management, & eMarketing strategies is essential as well as the ability to review Site Analytics and Business Models to gain strategic insights as well as to develop recommendations to optimize Customer Experience and Generate Demand.

 

 

Your IT PM background should included managing multiple, complex projects - leading cross functional teams that deliver quality solutions.

 

 

Experience with established project management methodologies is key as well as a solid uunderstanding of IT systems : system design, databases and programming concepts especially HTML, browsers, Javascript, Web Services and AJAX.

 

This role will work closely with the business and the IT teams globally and combine someone's design, implementation, web, project leadership and business acumen experience. You will:

 

Be the strategic leader managing high impact Digital IT projects; responsible for delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

Demonstrate thought leadership in Digital and internet technology trends to lead the definition and implementation of programs supporting Digital strategy.

Lead all phases of IT project including problem definition, analysis, solution conceptualization, requirement definition, development and implementation including authoring related documents such as business and functional requirements.