Executive Director, IT Business Partner Commercial & Medical - Hampton, NJ

Overview

Celldex is pioneering new horizons in immunology to deliver life-changing therapies. We are relentless in our pursuit of novel antibody-based treatments that engage the human immune system and directly affect critical pathways to improve the lives of patients with allergic, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. We have built a culture where innovative and talented people thrive—focusing a significant effort on attracting and retaining passionate and motivated employees who want to play a role in helping people with serious health conditions and who see this effort as personally rewarding.

In our highly entrepreneurial environment, employees are empowered and the opportunity for professional development occurs every day.

The Executive Director, IT Business Partner, Commercial & Medical will serve as a senior IT leader responsible for partnering with Commercial, Medical Affairs, and related business functions to define and execute technology strategies that enable commercial launch readiness, scalable growth, compliant operations, and long-term business value.

This role will act as the primary strategic IT partner to Commercial and Medical leadership, translating business priorities into integrated technology roadmaps, investment plans, and have lead IT accountability for timely implementations required to support a successful barzolvolimab launch. The Executive Director will be accountable for ensuring that technology capabilities, data platforms, business applications, vendor partnerships, and delivery models are aligned with launch objectives, enterprise standards, regulatory expectations, and future growth needs.

As a senior member of the IT leadership team, this role will also play a critical role building IT leadership depth, strengthening business partner capabilities within IT, mentoring emerging leaders, and ensuring continuity of knowledge, relationships, and strategic execution across key technology domains.

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as the senior IT business partner and trusted advisor to Commercial, Medical Affairs, and other launch-related business functions.
• Develop a deep understanding of business strategies, launch priorities, operating models, external customer engagement needs, and functional growth plans.
• Translate business priorities into clear IT strategies, roadmaps, investment plans, and delivery commitments.
• Partner with business leadership to identify technology opportunities that improve launch readiness, operational effectiveness, customer engagement, data-driven decision-making, and scalability.
• Influence and align stakeholders across IT, Commercial, Medical, Legal, Compliance, Quality, Finance, and external partners.

Technology Roadmap & Portfolio Accountability

• Own and maintain the Commercial and Medical IT roadmap, ensuring alignment with launch milestones, business priorities, enterprise platforms, and budget planning.
• Lead prioritization of technology initiatives across Commercial and Medical functions, balancing business demand, regulatory requirements, resource capacity, vendor dependencies, and enterprise standards.
• Develop business cases for major technology investments, including expected value, risks of non-delivery, implementation approach, dependencies, and ongoing support considerations.
• Partner with internal Infrastructure & Operations team for architecture, data, infrastructure, security, and application delivery to ensure solutions are scalable, integrated, secure, and supportable.
• Ensure the roadmap supports key commercial and medical capabilities, including CRM, field enablement, omnichannel engagement, content management, medical information, market access, payer data, patient services, analytics, reporting, and compliant customer engagement.

Commercial & Medical Technology Enablement

• Provide strategic leadership and operational accountability for implementation of integrated systems across the Commercial and Medical technology ecosystem, including platforms and capabilities supporting:
• CRM and field force enablement
• Omnichannel and digital engagement
• Promotional and medical content management
• Medical information and inquiry management
• Market access and payer data platforms
• Patient services and hub-related capabilities
• Price reporting and spend transparency
• Commercial data, analytics, reporting, and insights
• Field compliance, MLR processes, and regulated workflows
• Integration with enterprise systems, data platforms, and security capabilities
• Ensure platforms are designed and implemented to support compliant, efficient, and scalable commercial and medical operations.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to enable trusted, governed, and actionable insights for Commercial and Medical stakeholders.
• Promote standardization, simplification, and reuse of enterprise capabilities where appropriate.

Vendor, Partner & Ecosystem Management

• Lead strategic engagement with key technology vendors, implementation partners, managed service providers, and external…