Great Care, Delivered™ is the promise that we make to our customers. If you have a passion for helping animals, and a love for serving others – we want you to help us deliver on that promise by joining our IT Applications Team.

The Director, Commercial Applications is responsible for the business' marketing and commercial application ecosystem, including related strategies, architectures, and operations elements. The Director ensures all applications needed to support the enterprise’s mission, goals, and operational needs are provided in a timely, accurate, creative, and cost-effective manner.

Where will you work?

• This is a full-time position working a hybrid schedule seated in our Swedesboro, NJ office.

What you’ll do:

• Provide and sustain technology and architecture leadership of the next gen customer experience and e-commerce platform(s), including strategies, technology selection, roadmaps, and operating models in partnership with the marketing and commercial teams.
• Evaluate, benchmark, implement, and evolve scalable application frameworks, platforms, technologies that enable engaging and positive customer experiences.
• Introduce thoughtful technology transformation opportunities that balance deployment speed and investment effectiveness.
• Define, implement, and maintain software development standards and best practices for robust, secure, scalable, highly performance, and supportable applications.
• Instill the culture and processes necessary to effectively collaborate with leadership and functional partners as a ‘digital envoy.’
• Maintain a complete set of architectural artifacts that accurately reflect the systems, all interactions and data flows, and the underlying infrastructure, as well as the business capabilities and user roles, supported or impacted by the solutions and their implementation.
• Promote and oversee strategic and operational relationships between IT and external entities, including application vendors and service providers.
• Devise and manage relevant OPEX and CAPEX annual and project budgets that support the essential responsibilities of the position.
• Author and implement relevant technical policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensure successful completion of all enterprise projects by managing scope, budget, resource plans, approach, work plans, internal and third-party resources, technology vendors, and risks.
• Build team and develop staff members in accordance with the company's intellectual capital processes. Set objectives, coach, deliver performance reviews, and provide support in discussions involving staff compensation.

Who you are:

• Highly self-motivated and outcome-oriented leader capable of driving urgency in a thoughtful way.
• Leader with strong communication, consulting, leadership and influencing skills.
• Communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Have a high level of interpersonal communication skills and an exceptional ability to effectively interact and influence.
• Knowledgeable in reporting and data analytics (Google Analytics, Tableau, etc.)
• Skilled in DevOps and Agile and have a balance perspective of their value and applicability in a rapid evolving environment to deliver high quality software prototypes with the least technical debt possible.
• Have a technical background involving broad exposure and / or technical depth involving: web front-end development (javascript/ES6, CSS (SASS/SCSS, next.js), mobile app development, UX/CX design, AWS/Azure, .net Core, C#, SQL, Angular, CRM (SF.COM preferred), environment monitoring and analytics tools (Datadog or comparable), API frameworks (building RESTful APIs and applications that consume them for a real-time customer experience), data architecture(s), and others.
• You’re comfortable dealing with the challenges of an evolving technical product roadmap where decisions around technology choices may be based on evolving business strategy.
• Committed to continual learning in varied technology related fields and ability to translate that knowledge into solutions that increase business value.

What you’ve done:

• Obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science, business administration, engineering, or related discipline. Masters degree preferred.
• Have 7+ years’ experience conceiving, building, and sustaining modern applications in rapidly evolving B2B and B2C ad, marketing, and e-commerce environments / platforms and leading a team of software grade and highly scalable.
• Developed a strong background in creating secure cloud architectures for customer facing applications that are enterprise grade and highly scalable.
• Worked with digital marketing teams on developing customer journey experiences.
• Navigated a matrixed organization and encouraged stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitated the delivery of strategic project initiatives by partnering with assigned project leaders/managers as well as being comfortable leading the same from inception through delivery, as required.
• Experienced in leading cross functional team in the evaluation, planning and successful execution of major initiatives in complex environments, in both operational and project settings, that significantly improve business operations and offer competitive advantage.
• Managed dispersed application teams including offshore.
• Become seasoned at evaluating and prioritizing build vs. buy decisions in a manner that brings features, services, and capabilities to market consistent with business expectations
• Gained a practical understanding of traditional digital marketing channels, market e-commerce platforms and leaders in the same. Critical thinking skills range from strategy development to problem solving.
• Skilled with micro-services architecture, design patterns, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale, automation, resiliency, high availability, and user experience.
• Experienced with the phases of standard software development lifecycles (Agile / Scrum / XP / Waterfall) and leading teams through the same.

What’s in it for you:

• A comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, and flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) retirement plan with a generous company contribution to help you save for the future
• Company Paid Life and disability insurance
• Access to voluntary insurance options
• A generous paid time off program that increases every year
• Tuition reimbursement
• Opportunity for growth - We believe in promoting from within and do so through our internal job posting program!

About Us

For over 40 years, Wedgewood Pharmacy has been trusted to deliver high-quality compounded medications, now reaching over 40,000 people and the animals they love. Our company has grown dramatically from our humble beginnings in 1980 because we never stop asking how we can improve patient care while serving our customers better, smarter, and faster.

To keep growing, we depend on people who thrive on pushing the envelope of innovation in everything we do while keeping a laser focus on patient care. We trust our employees to deliver unique medications to the hundreds of thousands of people and animals whose health is our only business.

Wedgewood Pharmacy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you require an accommodation due to a special need or disability, please let your recruiter know what accommodations you will need.