Senior Manager, IT Business Systems - Site Lead

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Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager, IT Business Systems - Site Lead, to join our growing team based at our state-of-the-art Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility, near Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The Site IT Lead is responsible for supporting our Cell Therapy strategies and manufacturing business capabilities.

This leadership role will partner with our local and global manufacturing teams
and respective Tech Ops partners. This will be a critical role within the Kite IT reporting to the Sr. Director, Head of Site Delivery and Solution Engineering, Cell Therapy IT.

It is a highly cross functional role working closely with the leadership team from various business groups, Gilead and Kite IT.

Responsibilities

Strategy and Roadmap

• Lead the Site Technology Council for site technology roadmap and project implementation

• Partner with Site Operational Technology Lead on the IT strategy, local IT architecture design systems, and IT solutions following overall Global System Architecture, and respective business systems roadmap for the site

• Partner with Local Site Process/Systems owners, with input from Global COE’s and Kite IT to prioritize local portfolio and align to above roadmap

• Act as IT Site single point of contact for business systems issues, support, and upgrades

• Act as single point of contact with Global IT Programs and Global IT and support for site applications.

• Lead IT for site specific IT programs partnering with site process, business, and data owners/lead

• Responsible for the successful implementation and deployment of IT systems

• Coordinate with Site Process Lead and with CoE’s, Cell Therapy IT, and Quality on CSV for plant applications using IQ/PQ protocols

• Provide IT Hypercare following deployment of plant applications

• Provide local support and/or first point of contact for Enterprise systems such as ERP, LIMS, PLM, Robar, and G&A applications

• Partner with local Operations lead on supporting plant applications like MES/EBR and

• BMS with super user and system administration training for each release; provide basic maintenance configuration under guidance of Site Process owner• Provide support to local Quality,

• Supply Chain, PD IT systems, and integrations with Manufacturing Vendor Management for Managed Services support partners and/or local IT integrator partners

• Provide IT Project Management for local implementations of Global Programs and/or development, configuration, and implementation for local IT projects System Administration for Enterprise applications at the site

• Communicate and facilitate upgrades and updates to Enterprise systems impacting hardware and software

• Support IT and Systems audits

Manufacturing Automation & Plant Infrastructure

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• Support implementation and deployment of Manufacturing Automation Systems for integration with Enterprise systems

• Implement plant infrastructure for Plant Application and access by end user devices (e.g., laptops, scanners, barcode readers, printers)

• Implement plant infrastructure to support Manufacturing Automation and connect to plant applications

• Provide secure connectivity between process control network and Enterprise systems

• Commission IT rooms, network, and server infrastructure

• Support of GMP and Non-GMP Network connectivity and servers

• Provide local support for on-site desktop, A/V, Help desk, Lab computers, label printers, handheld mobile devices, scanners, etc.

Operational Leadership

• Act as key