Associate Director Itot Automation Engineer

**Summary**:
Associate Dir. ITOT Integration

As an Associate Director of ITOT Integration, you will play a crucial role in overseeing the integration of shop floor equipment with IT and OT systems across various domains. Your main responsibility will be to ensure the efficient flow of data from the shop floor to the enterprise level. Working alongside a team of experts, you will be responsible for coordinating and implementing the necessary middleware setup to facilitate data transfer. This will involve defining data points based on specific business requirements and industry best practices. In addition, you will oversee the configuration of end-to-end interfaces and conduct thorough interface qualification processes. Your goal will be to establish and maintain operational stability throughout the integration process.
Your role will be instrumental in enabling the effective integration of shop floor equipment with IT and OT systems, ensuring accurate and reliable data availability at the enterprise level.

**About the Role**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Proactively shape roadmap (3-5y horizon) for the area of given responsibility and ensures that Roadmap is aligned with Business priorities.
- Execute strategy for business systems, platforms and processes for a particular Business domain / Function.
- Accountable for Program, project and product delivery to the business.
- Help business to understand their choices to manage technology cost.
- Partner with Countries or Sites (where applicable) in respect to country/site roadmaps balancing global and local investments and business needs.
- Ensure on time within budget compliant secure and quality delivery of portfolio for responsible area.
- Ensure that governance structure for projects, operations, etc. is in place and followed, with right stakeholder representation.
- Follow industry trends and emerging practices to drive agility, speed, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure the overall user experience is considered when designing deploying new solutions or services and steady state operations.
- Ensure adherence to Security and Compliance policies and procedures.
- Govern underpinning ITOT services in the delivery and support of the ITOT solutions.
- Contribute to transformation initiatives using the latest technology stack
- Ensure that teams Objective are in-place and aligned with the overall DDIT and Business objectives
- Responsible for managing direct reports and overseeing their day-to-day tasks, talent development, resource planning, etc.

**Essential Requirements**:

- 10 years of experience in delivering global solutions to the customers, preferably in the aera of manufacturing
- 5 years of experience in direct and/or indirect people management
- Working experience in a GxP environment
- Relationship Management.
- Leveraging digital technology / big data.
- Influencing without authority.
- Collaborating across boundaries.
- Interactions with senior management.
- Fluent English (written and verbal)

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Division

Operations

Business Unit

Universal Hierarchy Node

Location

Spain

Site

Barcelona Gran Vía

Company / Legal Entity

ES06 (FCRS = ES006) Novartis Farmacéutica, S.A.

Alternative Location 1

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Alternative Location 2

Prague, Czech Republic

Functional Area

Technology Transformation

Job Type

Full time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No