IT Foundational Data Management Lead

Job Description

Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.

The IT Foundational Data Management Lead is charged with ensuring that the data associated with our Applications, Infrastructure, and their meta data is maintained in a controlled and accurate state.

This role is directly reporting into the Director of Foundational Services in GAHM IT and would be an extended member of the GAHM IT extended leadership team.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Accountable to ensure that IT master data associated with our products, applications, infrastructure, etc. is managed and maintained in a controlled state
• Creates & maintains IT operations and lifecycle management plans for infrastructure, application, and automation components, including support of manufacturing and lab operations, to keep our digital solutions and platforms stable, compliant, secure, and predictable, and demonstrates continuous improvement in the associated operational metrics, capabilities, and processes.
• Responsible to proposes enhancements to current systems and where required works to implement new solutions to maintain data.
• Applies a structured approach to discover, document, and manage business process, user and stakeholder needs, including opportunity statements, use cases, insights, and requirements
• Partner with cross-functional groups within IT and to mature or current operating methods to ensure simplified and consistent operations.
• Provides subject matter expertise, independent perspectives, new ideas, thought partnership, education, upskilling, tools, and execution support to new opportunities. Collaborates with VT stakeholders and operates as a trusted advisor and partner to drive successful identification of opportunities and associated business cases.
• Maintain a strong leadership presence, demonstrating thought leadership and educating/coaching team members to develop and hone their skills.  
• Demonstrate excellent stewardship of our resources (both people and financial), support the building of financial plans that deliver on our objectives and implement a culture of strong financial accountability across Digital Solutions, Architecture & Engineering
• Leverages business and user insight to help inform solutioning ideas and prioritization decisions to deliver valuable products. Has knowledge of and leverages existing solutions to benefit their stakeholders through using IT communities. Introduces and inspires change at all stages of product development
• Develop a visible and authentic external presence, and strong internal networks, to recruit highly skilled and diverse talent, stay current with industry trends, and establish effective vendor partnerships. Maintain development plans and regularly update skillsets through a commitment to life-long learning.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Position Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Regulatory compliance or a related study

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years working as a member of a lean / Six Sigma / data management team with a 3 minimum of years working in an operational capacity in an IT or manufacturing environment.
• Experience with ITSM tools and CMDB data structures.
• Demonstrated experience of how to communicate with data in digital forms such as dashboards.
• Well organized and adaptable to unstructured situations.  Comfortable in all SDLC phases where projects are conceptualized, issues discussed/ resolved, and business cases are developed for a global launch
• Good understanding of end-to-end Manufacturing business processes and value streams inclusive of Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply chain
• Demonstrated ability to partner with stakeholders and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills – able to effectively communicate complex concepts in simple ways.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with a variety of audiences and stakeholders including executive management, business leaders, IT peers, and colleagues worldwide.
• Strategic thinker, with demonstrated ability to work in a broad and top-down manner with a fair amount of ambiguity.
• Results-orientation with the proven ability and reputation for developing plans and implementing them successfully.
• Self-directed, self-motivated, focused leader who with little direction can fill in the gaps as to what is needed, and drive expected results.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Post Graduate Qualification in Business Strategy or IT architecture.
• Expertise in data visualization platforms
• Demonstrated knowledge of regulatory requirements (21CFR part 11, Annex 11, etc) that apply to computerized systems validation and compliance for site based as well as divisional and enterprise systems. 
• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with specific experience in the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing Quality areas – ideally involving cross industry collaboration to drive best practices.
• Experience in integrating real time shopfloor and lab systems, at an enterprise level, with appropriate levels of resiliency and performance.
• Experience in manufacturing analytics systems, including supply and demand forecasting, biologics process modelling and advanced image analysis.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.
• Strong understanding of application development methodologies.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment,
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally,
• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases),
• Pension and health insurance contributions,
• Internal reward system plus referral program,
• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution,
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card,
• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programs,
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone,
• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner,
• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more. 

 
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(The primary location is Czechia, benefits in other country may vary)

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