Director of Technology

Morgan Healey Retained Assignment
Location: London / Hybrid
Salary: Excellent

Our client is a leading pharmaceutical society publisher. They support health professionals globally to make quick and confident decisions about the safe and effective use of medicines to reduce risk and improve patient outcomes. As a not-for-profit, their resources are invested into creating independent evidence-based content and essential tools that promote best practice in medicine use.

As Director of Technology, you will oversee a cross-functional team of engineers, data specialists, and operations staff with 2 direct and c.21 indirect reports. A central requirement of the role is to partner closely with editorial, product, marketing, and sales to ensure that technology enhances publishing efficiency, discoverability, user experience and engagement, and supports sustainable revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership and accountability for the design, delivery and support of PHP's technology infrastructure.

• Support the Managing Director and Publishing Executive in implementing PHP business strategy.

• Manage technology budgets, suppliers, and deliver against business objectives.

• Maintain and evolve technology and data strategies for the business; including our internal publishing systems, and products such as BNF and MedicinesComplete.

• Revise and maintain a successful data delivery strategy to meet business needs and develop a strategy for building platforms

• Build strong links within the wider technology community and attend appropriate conferences to keep up to date with technology advances and product trends and uses.

• Provide project leadership and implementation management of the investment project program to facilitate each project to deliver its revenue and product targets.

Skills & Experience

• Previous management experience within Technology, ideally related to the provision of content and data to customers with a digital-first strategy, preferably gained within a medical or science data provider.

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and DevOps practices.

• Excellent communication, presentation and ambassadorial skills, with the ability to present complex information with lucidity.

• Ability to develop and maintain a strong collaborative relationship between other directorates and other functional departments.

• Demonstrable skills of the ability to negotiate effectively with suppliers and partners.

• Implementation experience with AI / machine learning / generative models.

• Implementation experience with Cloud-native architectures and scalable infrastructure.

• Skilled in change management, especially when shifting legacy systems or migrating to new architectures.

• Strong leadership, management and team building skills - must be able to lead, inspire and motivate a large and complex team of professional staff, including those on projects.

• Project leadership and implementation.

• Demonstrable experience of innovation and product development.

• Highly motivated, with good commercial awareness, financial planning and management skills.

• Understanding of the advancements in digital discovery and metadata enrichment in data publishing.

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