Head of IT Strategy & Architecture (80-100%) (f/m/d)

Location: Basel
Workload: 80-100%

Your tasks:

Major accountabilities within the domains of responsibility (Plant Operations, Manufacturing Operations, Product Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Laboratory Management, Regulatory, EHS and Learning)

Strategy development:
Analyzes wider industry trends, best practice and provides outside and market perspectives. Leads the smart manufacturing strategy definition and vision.
Domain architecture and Technology Road mapping:
Elaborates the domain architecture baseline, target and roadmap, covering capabilities, applications and platforms, services, information and data, technologies and architecture-relevant relations among these
Defines technology standards by business capability and ensures the right design across products, projects and programs. Lead technology identification and evaluations studies.
Acts as single point of contact for the Enterprise Architecture team for the CoE Operations (around 800 IT/OT technologies in scope)

Continuous improvement:

Assess current state of technologies and capabilities, identify risks and gaps and drives continuous improvement and effective governance processes (e.g. opportunities to reduce redundancy, consolidate applications and platforms, improve operational deficiencies, close existing capability gaps, recover technology depth, etc.)

Leadership:

Develops strong credibility and manage relationships with senior stakeholders
Leadership, mentorship, and guidance to a team of direct/indirect internal and/or external solution architects

Key requirements:

Domain skills and experience:

Bachelor in the field of Engineering or Technology management
Deep knowledge in the main IT solution domains, such as business applications. Extensive background in several of the IT and OT technologies in scope and significant functional and end to end process knowledge of the major operations domains (Manufacturing Execution, Shop floor scheduling, facility, utilities and plant maintenance, plant constructions and engineering, product life cycle management and manufacturing science, Laboratory management and operations, Quality Management, GxP Learning, Regulatory).
Experience in business teams in roles like product owner, business solution manager, process owner, others

Experience with Heath&Life Science/Pharmaceutical/Consumer sector
Sound knowledge of IT innovation approaches and digital solution development approaches. Strong knowledge and experience with smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0
Must be business fluent in English
Strong financial background and experience in business case creation, capital investment preparation
Good knowledge of frameworks like ITIL, SAFe, TOGAF is recommended
Extensive experience in working in regulated/GxP environments

Other skills:

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
Influencing and negotiating skills to align executives and senior stakeholders to a shared vision and roadmap
Entrepreneurial mindset
Experience with a demonstrable record of delivering impactful results within large and complex organizations. Comfortable operating in a complex, matrix, fast pace and ambiguous environment
Experienced business partner, ability to work across boundaries and creating trusting relationships, demonstrating active listening skills
External Perspectives / Business Acumen, understanding of pharmaceutical and consumer industry sector

• Englisch
• Industrie
• Pharma
• ITIL
• Management / Führung
• Qualitätssicherung
• Senior
• Strategie
• Bachelor