Director of Digital Innovation and Immersive Technologies at Thermo Fisher Scientific, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer• Championing Tech Innovation: Leading initiatives to map internal technology projects and scout external trends, driving synergies that maximize business value and competitive edge.• Driving Research and Development: Spearheading the discovery, incubation, and maturation of emerging technologies through dynamic collaborations with in-house teams, industry partners, and academic institutions.• Fostering an Innovation Community: Building and nurturing a vibrant, inclusive innovation community that promotes cross-divisional collaboration and collective learning.• Strategic Technology Insights: Providing strategic recommendations based on comprehensive tech scouting and trend analysis to align with business goals and market demands.• Accelerating Innovation: Implementing agile methodologies and facilitating hackathons and sprints to rapidly prototype and test new ideas and solutions.• Optimizing Innovation Processes: Overseeing and refining innovation processes to ensure focused, optimized value generation aligned with our technology strategy.• Enhancing Knowledge Sharing: Promoting best practices and knowledge sharing across divisions to enhance innovation synergy and execution alignment.• Cultivating Strategic Partnerships: Building and managing strategic partnerships with startups, academia, and industry innovators to leverage external expertise and accelerate technology adoption.• Driving Cultural Transformation: Encouraging a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and proactive experimentation to stay ahead in the evolving tech landscape.

• Interface with internal business leaders, drive towards the inclusion of immersive technologies in their roadmaps, make recommendations for adoption of new strategies that utilize immersive technologies, and work with various businesses to build internal teams and capabilities to design and deploy these new customer experiences.• Build relationships and collaborate with senior leaders and executives, including Product Management, IT, R&D, Quality, and Sales and Marketing, to build a global immersive digital capability strategy and roadmap.• Directly implement cross-business unit solutions as well as the acceleration of product development to shorten time to market. • Drives strategy to action, executes roadmap to deliver product capabilities and features tied to acceleration of Business Unit product time to market and revenue targets.• Coordinate with each business unit to understand their technology roadmap and the role of augmented reality technologies.• Identify businesses engaging with immersive technologies that provide a high level of business value and fills a major strategic gap.• Continuous mapping of the internal and external use of AR/MR technologies to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive view to senior leadership.• Identify areas of improvement and champion process and skill improvements, measure outcomes, and report findings. • Attend relevant conferences and other digital innovation events, summarize events and disseminate across the company• Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand complex problems and resolve them efficiently, use prior knowledge and experience to support and coach peers.• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected along with a reliance on extensive experiences in life sciences and immersive technologies.

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