Location: Indianapolis, IN
Job Summary
The Assoc. Director, IT Digital Plant & Projects is an integral part of bringing RayzeBio’s innovative drug products to patients in need. In this role, you will report directly to the Exec. Director, IT and be primarily responsible implementing RayzeBio’s vision for growth and leading efforts to enable digital processes to achieve commercialization objectives at the site. The role will ensure the digital systems roadmap is enabled and maintained to successfully deliver novel Radiopharmaceutical technologies. You will work with lab & process automation, large corporate systems, small biotech systems, across all functions for the Indianapolis site(s). Additional responsibilities will include setting and managing budgets and working with architectural and IT partners and specialty equipment manufacturers to achieve our technology and commercialization goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Accountable for continuous operation and maintenance of IT, lab & process automation systems (including MES, LIMS, local manufacturing, quality control and quality management site IT systems) as well as associated site infrastructure.
- Lead site service level management scope and process with IT groups and/or vendor managed services, i.e. Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), Disaster Recovery/Service Continuity, etc.
- Ensure Digital Roadmap leveraged and aligned to business outcomes. Drive for value realization.
- Lead a group of indirect reports and service providers to deliver effective, innovative and stable solutions that meet the needs of the site.
- Active partner with the site functional leaders. Collaborate with site leadership to develop, support, and align strategies for business process improvements through information systems automation.
- Provide IT leadership to site regulatory inspection readiness and data integrity initiatives.
- Participate in high-level strategic communications with the business and site leadership teams.
- Manage new demand from the various site functions (Manufacturing Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Science & Technology)
- Identify key technology trends and how new technologies might be leveraged to provide better solutions to the manufacturing site
- Responsible for the development of long-term (3 year) roadmaps identifying capabilities that have the greatest impact on business capabilities for the organization. Partnering and benchmarking with external sources.
Education & Experience:
- 10+ years’ IT experience in a cGMP injectable or Radiopharmaceutical environment.
- Proven technical leadership and management experience.
- Demonstrated experience implementing automation and digitization projects.
- BS/MS Information Technology or similar degree or equivalent experience
Skills:
- The role includes making resource allocation decisions, setting objectives, and driving priorities within a large team, particularly in high-risk areas with frequent external oversight.
- Leads complex, multi-disciplinary projects including resource and budget allocation and operational leadership.
- Oversees deliverable product, sets vision and standards for work products, challenges teams.
- It requires strong influence and trust, resilience in difficult situations, and the ability to encourage calm and rational behavior in teams.
- The leader identifies multiple solutions and recommendations for senior leaders, structures communications to achieve organizational goals, and tailors communication content and style for stakeholder understanding.
- The role also involves providing strategic feedback to vendors, synthesizing multiple analyses to solve broader business issues, and representing the discipline or function on program/project teams.
- Additionally, the leader identifies gaps in capabilities, ensures developmental opportunities for colleagues, sets direction with little guidance, contributes to multiple topic areas, and drives functional direction.
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