Solutions Designer - Life Sciences

Our vision is clear - our work makes a difference!

Cerner's vision of proactive health care management drives innovation in the development of effective solutions for today's health care challenges, while creating a foundation for tomorrow's healthy populations. We believe that only the most powerful, fully person-centric information technology can transform health care - to make it better, safer and more efficient. Smarter health care - that's Cerner's goal.



Cerner Corporation, (NASDAQ:CERN, www.cerner.com), is the leading supplier of clinical and management information and knowledge systems to more than 1,500 healthcare organizations worldwide.

 

Cerner’s Life Sciences mission is to connect the healthcare provider and non-provider with solutions for identifying and developing medical devices, treatments, and protocols.  Knowledge-Driven Care is implemented with the collection, sharing, monitoring, and study of evidence to create new knowledge.  Life Sciences provides solutions and services for the pharmaceutical industry.

 

Opportunity:  Solutions Designer - Life Sciences

 

Position Location:  Los Angeles or Kansas City Metro

 

Position Overview:

 

The Life Sciences team creates innovations and provides solutions for pharmaceutical and medical device market research and development, clinical development and discovery, regulatory and patient safety requirements, health economics, analytics, and surveillance.  The Solutions Designer - Life Sciences is a key client-interfacing role within the Life Sciences team, and is broadly responsible for developing and communicating requirements for software solutions for internal and external clients.  Specific responsibilities encompass understanding, defining and documenting the vision, functional requirements, and risk analysis of a specific software solution area, and using this knowledge to communicate design parameters to various technical and non-technical team members.  The Solutions Designer - Life Sciences is involved with interpreting regulatory and accrediting agency guidelines for solution requirements.  Additionally, this role participates in the Cerner sales and marketing process by way of demonstration support, RFP questions, functional requirement verification, release approval, and prioritizing solution needs based on client feedback. 



Technical:

 

- Minimum 4 years experience working with healthcare, or science information systems.

- Proven knowledge of/experience with IT software development life cycles.

- Demonstrated aptitude for requirements management, business/technical writing, organizational skills.

- Logic oriented, with meticulous attention to detail. 

 

Non-Technical:

 

- Excellent communication skills with proven abilities in developing and facilitating formal client presentations, managing project team and client expectations, and communicating IT technical concepts to non-IT technical team members and/or clinicians.

- Demonstrated project management knowledge and abilities.

- Self-starter, ability to deliver results with minimal supervision.

 

Educational Requirements:

 

- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience

 

Other:

 

- Ability to travel 10 to 20%.

 

DESIRED SKILLS:

 

- Familiarity with advanced database analysis and reporting tools such as COGNOS, Business Objects, or Crystal Reports.

- Previous experience writing functional specifications for computer systems.

- Previous experience with healthcare organization operations, finance, and quantitative analysis using IT information systems.

 

If you or someone you know is interested in discussing this opportunity in detail, please email resume and contact information in confidence (Word doc only please), to ajordan@cerner.com

 

Cerner is an Equal Opportunity Employer.