Director, Culture

Medidata: Conquering Diseases Together

Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of patients. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 1,400 customers and partners access the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

Your Mission:

This role will set the foundation and strategy for the CSR and Engagement functions to ensure that we are building out an employee centric program that is also creating a return on investment.  This position will look to embed our culture within Medidata, providing amazing employee experiences, resources/support for leaders and drive strategy.

• Design the mission and vision for the department

• Drive and embed actions from our Engagement Survey

• Create future ways of working in a Hybrid world

• Evaluate our values and EVP to embed deeper into the organization

• Co create resources, tools, and training for leaders to drive their own engagement

• Build out the Engagement and CSR strategy for Medidata

• Work with our values to embed and align to our culture

• Provide new recommendations to improve the current CSR Strategy and continue to build an innovative program

• Manage a high performing team

• Work with SLT stakeholders to get their buy in for engagement and CSR programs

• Manage the team to ensure that the employee experience and social impact programs create a more engaged workforce

• Manage overall budget

• Work closely with the DEI team to engage our BRGs in social impact programs

• Work with Talent Development to utilize our CSR and Engagement programs as experiential learning

• Work within the regions to design innovative programs that drive social impact

• Support and partner with our parent organization Dassault Systemes on Sustainability initiatives

Your Competencies:

• Detail oriented
• Well versed in maintaining and managing a budget
• Collaborative & Flexible
• Relationship oriented
• Innovative

Your Education & Experience:

• Requires a minimum of 10 years of related work experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years with a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience

• A Master’s degree in Human Resources or Organizational Psychology preferred

• Minimum of 7 years of experience within Human Resources with overall experience in Organizational Development, Employee Engagement or CSR, will be important for this role

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Covid Statement:
Medidata requires all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide documentation of full vaccination, unless qualified for an accommodation as determined by Medidata, consistent with applicable law.  Although accommodation requests will be considered (and granted where appropriate/possible), it may be determined that a candidate is unable to adequately perform the essential functions of the position without imposing an undue hardship on Medidata due to customer requirements, staffing needs, or other business reasons.

Medidata is making a real difference in the lives of patients everywhere by accelerating critical drug and medical device development, enabling life-saving drugs and medical devices to get to market faster. Our products sit at the convergence of the Technology and Life Sciences industries, one of most exciting areas for global innovation. Nine of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2017 were developed on the Medidata platform.

Medidata’s solutions have powered over 14,000 clinical trials giving us the largest collection of clinical trial data in the world. With this asset, we pioneer innovative, advanced applications and intelligent data analytics, bringing an unmatched level of quality and efficiency to clinical trials enabling treatments to reach waiting patients sooner.

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