Director, IT SAP Product Lifecycle and Quality

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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Business Partnership

• Own the end-to-end Regulatory-to-Release capability strategy across PLM Quality Management Product Release and related digital platforms.
• Serve as the senior IT partner for Product Development Regulatory Quality Manufacturing Clinical Supply Chain and Kite aligning technology priorities to business outcomes.
• Set the multi-year roadmap and investment priorities for SAP PLM SAP QM Batch Release Global Batch Trace and related quality capabilities.
• Establish enterprise standards and design principles that promote compliant scalable and standardized solutions.
• Partner with business process owners Enterprise Architecture and delivery teams to govern solution decisions investments and lifecycle management.
• Drive measurable outcomes in compliance product quality release cycle time adoption stability and business value realization.

Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Own delivery performance across the Regulatory-to-Release portfolio ensuring scope schedule quality validation deployment sustainment and adoption commitments are met.
• Lead execution across PLM QM Batch Release and related digital initiatives ensuring delivery is predictable compliant and business-aligned.
• Oversee cross-functional teams partners and vendors to resolve issues manage dependencies and drive integrated planning from design through support.
• Govern backlog priorities release plans testing validation deployment readiness and hypercare execution.
• Ensure delivery documentation metrics and governance controls support quality compliance adoption stability and measurable business outcomes.

Leadership

• Lead the Regulatory-to-Release organization across PLM Quality Management project delivery & sustainment operations.
• Set clear ownership priorities execution discipline and talent development expectations for PLM and Quality leaders.
• Build accountable customer-focused teams with strong product architecture delivery quality validation and operations capabilities.
• Manage vendors system integrators AMS partners and co-source teams to ensure delivery performance and accountability.
• Influence senior business and IT leaders on strategy investments roadmap priorities operating model decisions and value realization.
• Communicate priorities risks progress operational health and outcomes to senior leadership and governance forums.

Key Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in IT Engineering Computer Science Business Life Sciences Supply Chain or related field.
• 15 years of SAP ERP digital platform product management solution architecture or enterprise delivery experience in life sciences or regulated manufacturing.
• Deep experience with SAP PLM SAP QM SAP S/4HANA and regulated product lifecycle quality and release processes.
• Strong knowledge of PLM and quality capabilities including specifications recipes BOMs change management inspection batch management release genealogy and related integrations.
• Solid understanding of GxP GMP FDA 21 CFR Part 11 validation data integrity audit readiness and regulated delivery practices.
• Proven ability to lead ERP portfolios across strategy roadmap investment planning delivery sustainment compliance and value realization.
• Demonstrated leadership of global matrix teams vendors system integrators AMS partners business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Strong business partnership executive communication and governance skills with the ability to simplify complex SAP quality regulatory and compliance topics.
• Track record of driving standardization reducing technical debt improving operational resilience and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to present roadmap investment delivery sustainment and value realization recommendations to senior leadership.

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