**Work mode**:Hybrid**Onsite Location(s)**:Heredia, H, CR**Additional Locations**: Costa Rica-Heredia**Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance**
- At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and has been recognized with the Catalyst Award in 2022, a prestigious recognition of diversity, equity and inclusion excellence. Also, we have a Gender Equality Policy to support our compromise.- Hybrid Roles:
- Boston Scientific's hybrid workplace includes WFH and onsite. You will have the opportunity to discuss details in the interview.**About the role**:
This role is responsible for our SAP Commerce Cloud platform strategy, delivery, execution, governance, and operations. In addition, this role will manage the IT Digital Commerce product team as a people leader, and support vendor relationships, contracting, and budgeting processes.
**Your responsibilities include**:
- Establish and maintain a strategic IT solution vision, technology roadmap, and principles for our Digital Commerce platforms, aligned to business priorities and value goals.
- Supports delivery of multiple large, complex, cross-functional divisional and global projects, and product releases. Manages tasks, issues, risks, and action items. Ensures the proper use of collaborative, agile processes and removes impediments for the product team.
- Leads across cross-functional teams to ensure data quality, overall end-to-end process, and positive streamlined user experience. Ensures deliverables meet or exceed service-level expectations for quality, timeliness, performance and budget.
- Works collaboratively, effectively, and efficiently with stakeholders to ensure alignment and prioritization of goals and resources across multiple stakeholders, project priorities, and organizational initiatives.
- Requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance of, others in sensitive situations.
- Manages platform demand, prioritization and governance. Maintains a validated systems operations state in accordance with internal Software Validation procedures.
- Responsible for ongoing support and delivering on future enhancements, monitoring progress and performance, and helping the product team make improvements.
- Maintains high level of awareness and understanding of existing and emerging Digital Commerce technologies.
- Responsible for providing regular updates to IT and business executives regarding the strategic vision and execution status.
- Responsible for staffing and developing high performing product teams comprised of scrum masters, analysts, architects, and developers. Devotes a significant portion of time to managerial, leadership and employee development responsibilities.
- Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
- Manages relationships with software vendors, and influences their product roadmap. Manages relationships with software implementation and staffing vendors. Negotiates and executes contracts with vendors. Develops and manages to budgets, schedules and performance standards, and tracking accountability of team to objectives. Develops business cases and funding requests for new investments to support business and IT vision and objectives. **What we're looking for**:
**Basic Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of experience in IT
- Proven ability to deliver IT solutions in a regulated environment, with experience leading large-scale initiatives
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle and methodologies. Experience with **Agile / Scrum delivery practices**:
- **Experience with eCommerce**:
- Well organized and capable of managing multiple priorities
- Strong **people management experience leading global teams**:
- **Mentors team members in technology, architecture, and delivery of solutions**
- Proven experience developing and maintaining a strong relationship with IT partners, and software vendors
- Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership
- Ability to work in a fast paced, self-directed, action-oriented environment
- Self-starter with strong, proactive work ethic and fast learner
- Able to work on a team, in person, and in a collaborative virtual setting
- Desired English level 80% or above
- Please submit Resume in English.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Master's degree
- Experien