Director, Delivery Excellence & Governance (fmd)
Job Summary
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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology
At Cytiva one ofDanahers15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.
Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines new medicines and cell and gene therapies.
At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other our customers and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.
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The Director Delivery Excellence & Governance is accountable for strengthening standardising and evolving the existing delivery system that enables IT to deliver reliably predictably and compliantly at scale. Building on existing delivery practices frameworks and tooling this role focuses on bringing greater clarity consistency and control to how delivery is executed today.
The role evolves the current delivery framework while progressively introducing more adaptive and agile practices in targeted areas where they materially improve team effectiveness and delivery outcomes. It establishes clear usable standards and governance ensuring expectations are explicit compliance is embedded into ways of working and teams are supported to deliver with confidence.
This is a transformation role requiring the ability to bring theorganisationon the journey - shaping mindsets improving ways of working and driving measurable improvements in delivery predictability quality and transparency.
This position reports to the Senior Director IT Delivery & Governance and is part of the Information Technology team and will be an on-site role in Kraków.
What you will do
Assess the current delivery framework tooling and standards to identify gaps inconsistencies and areas of ambiguity establishing a clear baseline and prioritised improvement roadmap
Evolve and strengthen the existing delivery framework to enable predictable consistent high-quality execution across a complex portfolio through clearer standard work artefacts and lifecycle expectations that are practical and outcome-focused
Embed compliance by design into delivery ways of working ensuring the framework standard work and artefacts are consistently applied and clearly evidenced
Ensure consistent adherence to delivery standards and the framework across all initiatives through active governance assessing quality compliance and readiness
Shape and enhance the delivery tooling ecosystem to reinforce consistent ways of working for planning and execution and provide transparent trusted portfolio insight
Design and deliver targeted training to ensure the framework tools and standards are consistently understood adopted and applied across the organisation building a high level of proficiency within the delivery community
Drive continuous improvement across delivery by identifying framework and systemic constraints executing targeted improvement initiatives and embedding a culture of learning and transparency that delivers measurable gains in performance
Build and embed a pragmatic hybrid delivery capability introducing and scaling agile practices selectively where they deliver measurable improvement
Lead and develop a team of delivery transformation practitioners to strengthen execution capability across the organisation including the targeted introduction of agile practices where they improve team effectiveness
Who you are
Bachelors degree in Business Administration Information Technology or related field
10 years experience in PMO leadership or delivery governance within complex enterprise-scale IT environments
Proven track record of establishing and leading Delivery Excellenceor similar functions implementing governance frameworks across global complex organisations
Strong understanding of governance risk and compliance with hands-on experience operating within SOX and GxP environments
Demonstrated experience designing and evolving hybrid delivery models at scale with a proven track record of introducing and scaling agile practicesacross multiple teams or programmes
Deep experience across delivery methodologies including structured (waterfall) agile and hybrid approaches
Strong leadership communication and stakeholder management skills andexperienced in driving adoption and behavioural change
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in
Hands-on program and project management experience with a strong understanding of planning execution and the delivery challenges inherent in complex large-scale initiatives.
Life sciences healthcare or other regulated industries.
Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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