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Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We partner internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
The Site Digital Technology Lead performs the role of overall coordination of IT operations and account management for Site business leadership team, ensuring continuous alignment of IT and business goals, providing business-enabling solutions in line with IT strategy.
The Site Digital Technology Lead ensures compliance of all IT projects & IT activities undertaken in Site, smooth operations of IT systems utilized by Site and provides necessary IT assistance to Site employees.
Having overall accountability of Site IT operations, the Site IT Lead ensures proper cooperation with all IT functional teams that are providing services to the Site in a safe and compliant environment.
Key Tasks:
Ensures and promotes collaboration with other IT divisions as well as parts of our Company's business, both locally and globally, to break-down organizational boundaries in favor of a highly-collaborative and customer-centric culture.
Drives continuous improvement and innovation, develops and outside-in view based on cross-industry networking
Ensures and is able to demonstrate full compliance of functional area IT systems and processes in line with company and applicable regulatory requirements.
Is IT Single Point of Contact/Accountability for the Site, providing business stakeholders necessary feedback and input for business projects and IT operations
Defines IT capabilities and services necessary for enablement of Site operations and ensures their implementation.
Supports site integrated process teams in designing and implementing site production capabilities.
Ensures smooth daily operations of all Site IT systems and infrastructure
Takes ownership of business cases creation, gathering business requirements, Software Development Life Cycle documentation, project management, and incident management
Is responsible for Site IT budget planning and realization
Where necessary leads the validation process of IT systems utilized in Site
Leads IT hardware and systems implementation at the new site, as well as supports projects for the implementation of the different manufacturing platforms.
Manages vendors of the IT solutions and IT infrastructure
Responsible for the compliance and inspection readiness of IT systems at the site.
Ensures Software Development Life Cycle and Computer System Validation compliance according to our Company's guidelines.
Required Qualifications:
High School Diploma required. Advanced degree preferred.
The candidate should have 3+ years experience as a site IT primary contact.
Overall Leadership Behaviors:
Demonstrate ethics and integrity
Drive results
Focus on Customers and patients
Make rapid disciplined decisions
Act with courage and candor
Build talent
Foster teamwork
Overall Professional Competencies:
Working across boundaries: Demonstrates the ability to use knowledge of teams/ functions to help complete tasks and projects.
Strategic thinking: Demonstrates the ability to adapt current work processes to meet emerging needs and changes in job responsibilities. Demonstrates the ability to evaluate new ideas and proposed methods for practicality and ease of implementation.
Project Management: Has overall knowledge of Project Management methodologies and tools
Productive Communication: Demonstrates skill in using an open communication style that actively acknowledges other thoughts and opinions.
Problem Solving: Demonstrates the ability to independently solve problems that arise within job responsibilities and expectations.
Accountability: Demonstrates the ability to be accountable for the area of responsibility while partnering with various teams within the company
Functional & Technical Competencies:
Demonstrated background knowledge of healthcare manufacturing processes preferred.
Comprehension of GxP regulated environment and validation requirements preferred.
Fluent English speaking and writing
Vendor management
Lean/Six Sigma literacy
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