Enterprise Architecture Director jobs in Lowell, MA

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio.

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone's health is in our hands. We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team.

Summary of Role:

The Enterprise Risk Management Director will play a critical role in driving a proactive and coordinated approach to risk management, helping the Company's long-term growth by assessing and prioritizing risks and aligning management programs to mitigate risks that may impact the enterprise's ability to achieve strategic objectives. This role will support the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Enterprise Risk Management program. The Enterprise Risk Management Director will report to the VP of Enterprise Risk Management. The role will help lead an effective team of enterprise risk and compliance professional(s) and interact extensively with executives and personnel at all levels of the Company.

Areas of Enterprise Risk Management oversight and responsibility will include Enterprise Risk Management and providing programmatic assistance for cross-functional coordination of risks being monitored by individual functions, to actualize a connected risk management approach response aligning with the needs of the business. Areas of support will also include Business Resiliency measures such as business continuity planning and third-party risk management.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

A successful candidate has experience supporting the build and operation of fit-for-purpose Enterprise Risk Management program(s) and has a passion for acting as a change agent to champion risk management considerations across the organization. This individual has a demonstrated ability to manage an effective team of professionals, break down organizational silos by working across functions and experience prioritizing risk outcomes in the context of enterprise performance to align risks to strategy and strategy to risk.

• Support development of a proactive and coordinated approach to risk management, aligning governance, risk and compliance priorities with enterprise strategic goals to proactively identify, mitigate, and monitor risk. Assist in the achievement of goals for the ERM program including:
• • Embedding risk management practices into the organization's culture
  • Defining accountability for risk management activities
  • Enabling informed risk management decision-making on an enterprise-wide basis
  • Ensuring ongoing risk monitoring and risk reporting
  • Driving consistency and alignment across all Company divisions
• Monitor external risk landscape and be apprised of and evaluate existing and evolving compliance, ethics, privacy and related legislation, regulations, frameworks, and other marketplace/industry dynamics relevant to Lantheus and its industry, business, and operations to determine the practical effects on and requirements for Lantheus programs, policies, communications, and training needs.
• Maintain risk universe and lead annual risk assessment driving consistent risk categorization, treatment, and communication across all functions.
• Facilitate the delivery of high-quality, relevant, and actionable risk information to stakeholders.
• Identify risk owners for key risks and partner to build action items/accountability.
• Formalize risk reporting/dashboard in alignment with stakeholder needs.
• Support other areas requiring cross-functional alignment to develop consistent and repeatable frameworks for risk mitigation, including development of processes for business continuity planning, disaster recovery and third-party risk management.
• Build, manage, mentor and lead a team of enterprise risk professionals whose roles as collaborative, pragmatic business partners instill a strong culture of risk management enterprise wide.
• Coordinate with other teams that perform governance, risk, control, and monitoring activities to identify gaps or redundancies and ensure efficient realization of plans through a collaborative approach.
• Act as a change agent encouraging an environment that employs accountability, collaboration and trust while fostering teamwork and execution.
• Actively demonstrate the Lantheus values of helping people be their best; respecting one another and acting as one; owning the solution and making it happen; learning, adapting, and winning; knowing someone's health is in our hands.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree with twelve plus (12 ) years of Enterprise Risk Management or related experience, with an impressive academic and professional record; Master's degree preferred and CRMP or ARM certification highly valued.
• At least 3 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Substantial business and regulatory knowledge, and experience in Life Sciences and/or Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical industry preferred.
• Project management skills are required to complete multiple projects and accomplish the annual plan.
• Knowledge of applicable regulatory and compliance requirements with an understanding of how these requirements apply to the organization's daily operations.
• Experience in building and implementing key components of an effective Enterprise Risk Management program.
• The ability to provide timely, well-informed, "practical risk"-based advice that facilitates business decision-making in alignment with strategic objectives.

CAPABILIITIES / COMPETENCIES:

Lantheus is also looking for the right fit for its Management team and the Company, which means the successful candidate must also have:

• A passion for performing meaningful work that impacts patients' lives;
• The highest integrity and sound judgment;
• Sophisticated emotional intelligence, strong interpersonal skills, a collaborative style and an ability to exert "soft influence" and build consensus;
• An ability to manage differing opinions, ambiguity and conflict effectively and to escalate issues appropriately;
• Confidence navigating a highly regulated, public company environment;
• Exceptional reasoning skills and a creative, pragmatic, solution-oriented and cross-functional problem-solving approach;
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills;
• An innate and unshakable sense of ownership;
• Proactive and effective project planning skills;
• An ability to work independently with minimal supervision;
• An astute resourcefulness with which to attack unfamiliar legal and regulatory frameworks and business problems efficiently and effectively;
• A comfort operating and making sound judgment calls in gray areas;
• A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and a willingness to "roll up your sleeves" to get the job done;
• A serious interest in developing and implementing cross-functional process improvement initiatives;
• A serious passion, curiosity, receptiveness and capacity to learn about the Company, its complex and evolving businesses and industry, the underlying clinical use of its products, and the sale, delivery and use of its products within the healthcare system;
• An ability to set and manage multiple, constantly-changing, sometimes conflicting priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; and
• A dedication to the highest level of customer service.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

This position is intended to be hybrid, with an expectation of working out of the Company's Bedford, Massachusetts executive office one to two days per week (or more) and as otherwise necessary. Periodic (though infrequent) travel to other Company sites and events may be required.

Core Values:

The ideal candidate will embody Lantheus core values:

• Let people be their best
• Respect one another and act as one
• Learn, adapt, and win
• Know someone's health is in our hands
• Own the solution and make it happen

For more information, please visit www.lantheus.com.

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