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Senior Director, Head of ERP DevOps
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
2024-11-15 02:53:26
San Mateo,
California,
United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Consulting & Corporate Strategy
Job description
Senior Director, Head of ERP DevOps
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead's therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.
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Job Description
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company founded in 1987. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the workplace every day, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Our worldwide staff is a close community where you can see the tangible results of your contributions, where every individual matters, and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through ongoing development. Our scientific focus has resulted in marketed products that are benefiting hundreds of thousands of people, a pipeline of late-stage drug candidates, and unmatched patient access programs to ensure medications are available to those who could otherwise not afford them. By joining Gilead, you will further our mission to address unmet medical needs and improve life by advancing the care of patients with life-threatening diseases.
The Senior Director, Head of ERP DevOps will be responsible for overseeing Global ERP DevOps - The function that (in conjunction with other IT functions including those aligned to business functions) defines, delivers, and supports business solutions enabled by the core ERP system. This role is charged with building and running a DevOps team. Gilead IT operates in a vertically integrated DevOps model, and as such the leader of this function will oversee and manage end-to-end solution architecture, solution delivery, solution test, and solution operations for ERP.
This role will work closely with the leaders in charge of delivery for Releases 2 and 3 of Gilead's current ERP transformation program shifting from Oracle to SAP S4/HANA. In Release 2, we are shifting Global Manufacturing and Direct Procurement Commercial Order to Cash and Indirect Procurement for Europe, Mexico, and Israel with Go-Live in August 2024. For Release 3, we are shifting Clinical Commercial Order to Cash and Indirect Procurement for Rest of World as well as Gilead Clinical Distribution Manufacturing and Secondary Packaging. Release 3's target completion date is .
The Senior Director, Head of ERP DevOps will support business strategy. To be effective in this role, he/she must partner with functional IT capability leaders and counterparts across business-facing IT verticals like PDM, Commercial, Finance, Procurement etc. to understand functional demands and drivers, and then translate these requirements into solutions and ensure delivery. This leader should have the business acumen, domain expertise and communication skills to shape, articulate and execute a cohesive development and operations strategy.
Essential Duties and Job Functions
General responsibilities for this position will include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Lead the ERP DevOps team to ensure efficient and effective development and deployment of ERP solutions, enabling the conversion from Oracle to SAP. Leads a highly complex and wide-ranging portfolio of projects that significantly influences and impacts the short- and long-range direction of multiple business groups and teams.
- Independently determines how to structure and approach multiple complex, large-scale assignments or projects to achieve or exceed strategic objectives within the targeted timelines and resource parameters. Leverages synergies and resources across assignments to maximize efficiencies and achieve consistencies where appropriate.
- Plays a key role in the strategic and long-range planning and innovation across a broad portfolio of large-scale, highly complex assignments and projects. Conceives new and novel approaches and ideas that significantly advance business and team outcomes.
- Ensure all ERP delivery and operations meet Quality/GXP/Validation standards
- Ensure thoughtful performance management of individuals within the ERP DevOps team and individualized career development plans based on individual needs and corporate strategy
- Develop and implement DevOps best practices for ERP system development, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and agile methodologies
- Enhance business value through collaborative identification and delivery of business needs. Deliver on portfolio investments and ensure Business Value/Outcomes are realized based on prioritized business needs, and ensure governance of demands across business units and business processes
- Change management employed at this level significantly influences multiple projects and/or our largest-scale and highest- profile projects.
- Ensure necessary ERP solutions are documented, and solution ownership is available for projects and ongoing compliance activities
- Manage cost center and innovation investments and drive for "cost to serve" efficiencies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into effective ERP solutions
- Oversee the management of ERP systems, ensuring they are up-to-date, secure, and meeting the needs of the business
- Develop and manage the ERP DevOps budget, ensuring resources are used effectively
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the ERP DevOps team, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations related to ERP systems
- Support ERP Transformation: Support the in-flight Enterprise SAP S/4 HANA program covering the scope of Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Plan to Deliver, Record to Report, Project Accounting, etc. that is expected to complete in the next two years
- Cross Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders within business facing IT verticals and support their mission. Partner with senior leadership to create technology strategies that support the objects of their functions. Understand the value drivers of the business and ensure IT solutions are scalable and can expand to support new therapeutic areas while considering innovation and cost to serve
- Domain Expertise: Partner with business facing IT vertical teams to create technology strategy that optimizes operational processes. Provides insight into business processes that advance user adoption, improve customer satisfaction, and refine management reports such as those used for financial oversight based on the use of day-to-day transactional systems.
- Quality/GXP/Validation expertise in the context of life sciences industry requirements and technology enablement practices
- Hands on SAP S4/HANA Expertise within the ERP landscape and understanding of upcoming technical capabilities and trends in the SAP S4 domain
- Strategic mindset with the ability to execute: Define and deliver against strategy, implement automation . click apply for full job details