Senior IT Manager - Digital Strategy, AI Innovation & Data Enablement

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role:
Boston Scientific is hiring an experienced digital leader to bridge business goals with transformative technology outcomes. Join us in a newly created role: Senior IT Manager - Digital Strategy, AI Innovation & Data Enablement to lead digital transformation across our Urology and Endoscopy divisions. This high-impact position focuses on two key areas:

• Serving as the strategic technology leader for Endoscopy’s Digital Strategy
• Driving AI Innovation and Data Enablement capabilities across MedSurg, which includes both the Urology and Endoscopy divisions

Reporting to the Senior Director of MedSurg IT, you will act as the primary technology partner for Endoscopy, owning its digital roadmap and aligning initiatives with business goals. You’ll also collaborate across divisions and enterprise platform teams to define and scale AI-driven and data-enabled capabilities that fuel operational excellence, elevate customer experience, and unlock new commercial value.

This is a highly collaborative role that combines business strategy, emerging technology, and cross-functional leadership. You’ll work closely with enterprise AI and data teams, commercial leaders, and IT partners to deliver impactful digital solutions.

Work Mode:
At Boston Scientific, we value in-person connection as a driver of innovation and teamwork. This role follows a hybrid work model and includes on-site time at our Marlborough, MA office (3 days per week) to support collaboration and team synergy.

Visa Sponsorship:
Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

Endoscopy Digital Strategy:

• Provide strategic IT leadership for Endoscopy, with ownership of the digital roadmap and alignment to business goals.
• Act as the primary liaison between enterprise platform teams and divisions to drive prioritized, high-impact initiatives.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to scale digital and data solutions that elevate commercial impact. 

MedSurg AI Innovation & Data Enablement:

• Lead the development and execution of a unified AI roadmap across Urology and Endoscopy divisions, aligned with business strategy and enterprise AI investments. Identify, prioritize, and scale high-impact AI use cases across MedSurg commercial functions, including:
  • Operational Efficiency: Streamlining business processes
  • Customer Experience: Enhancing personalization and engagement
  • Revenue Enablement: Powering data-driven sales strategies
  • Product Innovation: Enabling intelligent, connected devices
  • Change Management: Driving adoption through communication and training

• Collaborate with the enterprise AI team to adopt shared governance, leverage new AI capabilities, and support long-term maintenance of MedSurg-specific use cases. 
• Partner with the enterprise data team to drive standards and best practices in data strategy, governance, quality, and accessibility across MedSurg.
• Champion a data-driven culture and lead efforts to elevate analytics maturity across Urology and Endoscopy.
• Support implementation of key data initiatives to accelerate strategic business programs 

Program Delivery & Governance:

• Oversee the delivery and value measurement of IT programs supporting MedSurg strategic goals.
• Establish scalable processes, frameworks, and governance for digital delivery.
• Define and track key outcome metrics (e.g., VIPs, KPIs, ROI) to measure value delivery and continuously optimize project portfolios.
• Ensure programs comply with relevant regulatory, privacy, and security standards across data and AI-enabled initiatives.
• Monitor and communicate program status, risks, and ROI to stakeholders.

Team & Vendor Management:

• Lead cross-functional teams, including internal staff and external partners.
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and service-level agreements.
• Mentor and coach talent to build future-ready digital capabilities within the organization.

What we’re looking for in you:

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT leadership roles, including periods of formal people management.
• Direct experience driving digital transformation, AI initiatives, or enterprise data strategy.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver complex enterprise technology programs with defined KPIs, ROI tracking, and measurable value outcomes.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to define and execute long-term digital strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Hands-on experience with AI technologies, data architecture, cloud platforms (e.g., AWS or Azure), and connected digital ecosystems.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to present to and engage effectively with diverse stakeholders across all levels of the organization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Data Science, or a related field.
• Experience scaling AI-powered and data-enabled initiatives across multiple business units in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated success in developing and operationalizing enterprise-wide data strategies, including governance and stewardship frameworks.
• Industry experience in medical technology, healthcare, or other closely related health-regulated fields.

Requisition ID: 608471

Minimum Salary: $127900 

Maximum Salary: $243000 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com--will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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