Job Title: Senior Director/Director, Corporate IT Business Partner Location: San Diego, CA / Hybrid / Remote Position type: FLSA: Full time Exempt Department: Information Technology Strive to Bring a Profound Difference to our Patients At Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients. Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and Twitter. The Opportunity The Senior Director/Director, Information Technology (IT) Business Partner for Corporate is part of the IT Leadership Team and serves as a strategic partner and trusted advisor to Corporate teams globally. He or she creates and maintains a Corporate IT strategy and roadmap, aligned to business goals and identifies opportunities where IT can bring about efficiencies, embed quality, and drive business innovation. As a business partner, he or she leads the delivery of the Corporate technology and data roadmap and ensures effective adoption of new solutions. Through the roadmap, maintains a sharp focus on delivering operational efficiencies across the enterprise and promotes the best possible customer experience. Business partners include, but are not limited to Human Resources, Finance, and Legal. What You Will Contribute * This position ensures the strategic use of technology and data capabilities and business process improvements to drive business growth. * Serves as a visible transformational leader who builds and manages strategic and trust-based relationships with Corporate teams globally. * Develops a detailed understanding of Corporate business processes to serve as subject matter expert on behalf of business stakeholders as new technology solutions and enhancements are implemented. * Partners with business functions to develop, maintain, and communicate aligned IT strategies while overseeing implementation of IT projects in support of the strategy. * Participates in the prioritization of the Corporate systems and data portfolio and represents the portfolio to stakeholders. * Accountable for enterprise resource planning transformation (ERP) and evolving support and maintenance operations. * Partnering with functional leaders, further define the enterprise master data management strategy and operations which will be critical to ERP and other critical business operations. * Serves as a change agent who helps the IT Team and supported stakeholders transform by focusing organizational effectiveness, improvement, and development. * Provides oversight and hands-on portfolio/project management for Corporate IT initiatives. * Manages internal/external team members in executing the project management & software development lifecycles, driving adoption, and measuring the value / effectiveness of implemented systems & processes. * Develops his or her team with the right leadership traits to become impactful business partners, ensuring teams engage their internal customers in the language of the business. * Ensures teams embrace GxP, IT Compliance, IT Security, SOX, data privacy, and other risk management considerations, and that they are embedded in projects and operations. * Instils a strong focus on Agile service delivery while maintaining high quality and compliant solutions. Integrating Agile with the ERP transformation is a critical part of the program's success. * Proactively identifies and champions the adoption of emerging technologies that can drive innovation and competitive advantage within the corporate functions. * Applies knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, maintains awareness of the competitive environment, and exhibits knowledge seeking and sharing best practices. * Earns a seat at stakeholder meetings, serving as a contributing member beyond representing IT. What We Seek * Bachelor's degree in a related technical or business discipline required. Advanced degree is preferred. * 10+ years of related experience in the pharmaceutical/medical device industry required. * Served as a business relationship manager or consultant to Corporate functions within a global organization with a proven track record of delivering business and technical solutions. This includes leading business process improvement initiatives and leading the selection and deployment of new technologies. Demonstrated experience in supporting corporate teams such as Human Resources, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and/or Compliance. * Recognized as a business leader first who is leading a technology function. * Demonstrable experience overseeing the strategic planning for a technology services function aligning objectives to functional strategic imperatives. Responsible for the annual budget and recurring forecasts. * Service delivery experience using direct, contract, and matrixed resources. * Strong experience in ERP strategy, mobilization, and operations. Critical experience includes business transformation leadership, functional change management, enterprise master data management, and value stream dependencies across functional areas. * Managed projects and services in areas such as human capital management, enterprise resources planning (D365), financial planning and analysis, expense management, contract management, and/or healthcare practitioner transparency reporting. * Robust program and project management experience in an international, team-oriented cross-functional environment. Managed project teams of varying size and resource mix / skill sets. * Organizational change management experience, leveraging key change management principals and tools for the rollout of new capabilities and introduction of change to the business. In addition, monitored and drove the adoption of new business processes and IT capabilities with a strong focus on user experience. * Experience managing internal and external teams to deliver solutions leveraging AI and other emerging technologies. * Experience in both structured and agile SDLC methodologies. Instills an agile and continuous improvement culture. * Vendor management experience including vendor due diligence, contracting, and performance management. Fosters partnerships and contracts which result in competitive investment for Avidity and maximizes the efficiency of vendor performance. * Ability to creatively influence global stakeholders and IT colleagues to achieve objectives and realize business value. * Strong leadership and decision-making skills, able to develop positive coaching/mentoring relationships with direct reports and global matrixed team members. * Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Able to understand and absorb complex information and requirements. * Ability to effectively facilitate meetings (e.g., status meetings, functional requirements gathering, process flow development workshops, end user training, etc.) * Excellent organisational skills, meticulous and methodical. Good at prioritising and flexible enough to adapt plans. Comfortable working to tight deadlines and within constraints. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead change management initiatives and communicate complex information in simple terms. * Forms trusting, collaborative and strategic relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners with skills in assertion, negotiation, influencing, tact and diplomacy. What We will Provide to You: * The base salary range for this role is $200,600 - $221,800. The final compensation will be commensurate with such factors as relevant experience, skillset, internal equity and market factors. * Avidity offers competitive compensation and benefits which includes the opportunity for annual and spot bonuses, stock options and RSUs, as well as a 401(k) with an employer match. In addition, the comprehensive wellness program includes coverage for medical, dental, vision, and LTD, and four weeks of time off. * A commitment to learning and development which includes a variety of programming internally developed by and for Avidity employees, opportunities for job-specific training offered by industry, and an education reimbursement program. Avidity Biosciences 10578 Science Center Dr. Suite 125 San Diego, CA 92121 O: 858-401-7900 F: 858-401-7901