Delivery Lead GDIT R&D

Delivery Lead GDIT R&D – Ipsen

The IT Delivery Lead is responsible for driving high‑quality, consistent, and efficient delivery across R&D and Medical Digital & IT initiatives. This role provides cross‑team leadership to agile delivery squads, oversees Dev Ops practices, and ensures adherence to delivery standards in a regulated (GxP) environment.

Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies Strategic Delivery Enablement

• Translates IT leadership’s strategic vision into actionable roadmaps, aligning teams and resources to short, mid, and long‑term goals.
• Align squads and delivery teams with short‑, mid‑, and long‑term goals.
• Support business agility while ensuring quality, compliance, and transparency.

Agile & Team Leadership

• Lead and coach cross‑functional teams to ensure high performance, focus, and continuous improvement.
• Promote the use of Agile/SAFe methodologies and support consistent delivery practices across teams.
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to drive predictable and transparent delivery.

Dev Ops & Engineering Practices

• Oversee the implementation and maturity of Dev Ops practices (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring).
• Collaborate with infrastructure and development teams to optimize release cycles and system stability.
• Ensure adoption of modern engineering practices and tooling across delivery teams.

Delivery Governance & Standards

• Establish and enforce delivery frameworks, standards, and best practices across the R&D and Medical Digital & IT portfolio.
• Monitor delivery KPIs (e.g., velocity, lead time, defect rate) and drive continuous performance improvements.
• Ensure compliance with quality and regulatory requirements in a GxP or controlled environment.

Operational Planning & Coordination

• Coordinate delivery timelines, dependencies, and resource needs across multiple initiatives and squads.
• Support capacity planning and help resolve delivery blockers and escalations.
• Provide visibility to leadership through regular delivery updates and dashboards.

Process Improvement & Performance

• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or risks in delivery processes and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Foster a culture of learning and operational excellence through retrospectives, metrics, and feedback loops.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and process reuse across the organization.

Key Stakeholders Collaboration

• Work closely with Programme Managers, Business Partners, Product Owners, and Tech Leads to ensure alignment on scope, timing, and quality of deliverables.
• Translate delivery data into actionable insights to support prioritisation and decision‑making.
• Ensure alignment across IT and business teams on scope, timing, and quality expectations.

Knowledge, Abilities & Experience Education / Certifications

• Preferred:
  Master’s degree, 6‑7 years of experience, including at least three years directing projects.
• Minimum:
  Master’s degree, 4‑5 years of experience, including at least one to two years directing projects.
• Project Management training and certification desirable (PMP) but not required.

Experience

• Proven experience leading IT delivery in a matrixed and regulated environment (ideally in pharma or life sciences).
• Solid knowledge of purchasing/legal practices and of the IT management process.
• Strong knowledge of the technology landscape for Medical Affairs and Operations, including IT systems for Pt. Centricity, Promotional & Scientific Material Review, Investigator Sponsored Studies, Medical Information Inquiry, Grants, Portfolio Management and Executive reporting.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Ten or more years of progressively responsible IT experience, with sensitivity and commitment to business problem‑solving or ten years with responsibilities in business department and/or IT projects as project owner.
• Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams and managing several external partners.
• Knowledge of project management methodology and experience or familiarity with major defined PM approaches (e.g., PMI, Prince II or Agile).
• Effective influencing and negotiating skills in an environment where this role may not directly…