R&D IT Business Partner - Global Biologics

The organisation

Our client is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech polymer materials. As an innovation company, it sets trends in research-intensive areas. With more than 30.000 employees in more than 100 countries our client attains a turnover of EUR 10 billion per year.

We are looking for a R&D IT Business Partner- Global Biologics (m/f) for the headquarter near Düsseldorf.

The position

• Act as IT business partner and relationship manager (m/f) to the function Global Biologics
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with scientists, internal IT specialists, quality assurance representatives and Global Biologics management
• Work closely with neighboring business functions e.g. chemical and pharmaceutical development, commercial production as well as with functional borders to oversee implications of changes in other areas for global biologics
• Lead IT/system-related business process improvements by identifying opportunities and developing initiatives that enable business innovation and efficacy improvement
• Manage IT project portfolio
• Drive the definition of the IT project’s scope, business case development and identification of required resources in collaboration with Global Biologics
• Ensure prioritization and strategic fit with business goals and objectives as well as IT strategy
• Maintain short and long-term project portfolio and oversee implementation projects
• Responsible for steering Global Biologics IT projects to deliver valued solutions

Candidate profile

• PhD in biological sciences, bioinformatics or equivalent degree
• Long-term work experience in pharmaceutical, bio-technology, or health care industry
• Long-term work experience in drug discovery and/or drug development environment preferably with a focus on biologics and informatics
• Domain expertise in cell line development, upstream and downstream processes, clinical manufacturing processes and GMP
• Domain expertise in information architecture, data integration and knowledge engineering (master/meta data, ontologies)
• Several years of experience in leading organizations and/or large teams
• Strong teamwork, self-management and advanced problem-solving abilities
• A high level of intellectual curiosity, external perspective and innovation interest
• Business fluent in English and German, both verbal and written

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