About This Role:As the Head of IT, you will play a pivotal role in bridging IT with the manufacturing line of business. Your mission is to ensure stakeholders achieve their goals through the effective use of IT systems. This involves understanding their business strategies, challenges, and opportunities, and ensuring that their automation and information needs are met. You will actively participate in problem-solving, rather than merely channelling issues to system owners. By delivering and customizing IT services effectively, you will represent IT to the stakeholder community, emphasizing stakeholder success over process management.This position is based full time, 5 days per week at our manufacturing site in Athlone, where your outcomes-focused approach will drive stakeholder success.What You'll Do:Efficiently manage day-to-day IT operations at the site and coordinate with global IT teams to ensure stable site operations.Deliver on financial commitments while rigorously prioritizing and using the budget to deliver outcomes.Facilitate dialogues to identify business issues, challenges, and areas of opportunity that can be addressed through technology.Manage business technology priorities for an assigned line of business.Align the IT portfolio and roadmap to the business strategy and objectives.Build a detailed understanding of how business processes and outcomes are operationalized through technology.Lead discovery, assessment, and business case development for technology investments and ensure those investments are delivered within financial targets.Capture basic user and functional requirements and key design considerations.Direct IT delivery based on the IT portfolio and business priorities, ensuring progress is on schedule, within budget, and outcomes are high quality.Ensure smooth execution and clear lines of communication between cross-functional IT teams and business areas impacted.Negotiate and draft effective contracts and agreements with third parties to ensure successful engagement outcomes.Drive adoption of IT standards and solutions.Identify opportunities to innovate.Continually refresh personal knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve solutions.Manage IT projects being delivered to stakeholders (when appropriate based on scale, area, applications involved, and resources deployed).Who You Are:You are an experienced IT professional with strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and expertise in ERP and Manufacturing Execution Systems. With a successful track record of leading manufacturing IT, automation, or quality teams, you thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and continuously seek improvement opportunities. You have extensive experience supporting manufacturing applications in IT or engineering and managing large manufacturing sites, leveraging global IT resources for 24/7 support. Your experience in a Life Sciences regulated environment and command of software validation and GxP processes are crucial. You also excel in managing compliance and audits, and effectively coach and develop IT teams.Required Skills:BS/BA required in Life Sciences, Engineering, or IT-related discipline.Significant and proven years of experience working and supporting manufacturing applications in IT or engineering.Experience in managing a large manufacturing site and collaborating with global IT and geographically dispersed partners.Proven experience in a Life Sciences regulated environment with strong command of software validation and GxP processes.Experience in supporting and managing compliance and internal/external audits.Ability to effectively manage, coach, and develop IT teams. Preferred Skills:IT Performance Reporting and AnalysisProject Quality ManagementData AnalysisSoftware DesignJob Level: Management
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We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.