Director Operations IT Frederick Supply Site

Introduction to the role

The role holder will act as the Director Operations IT for the Frederick, US site, covering customers, business processes and systems relating to the delivery of global and local business process and systems. The key stakeholders for this role are the site/function leads and their leadership teams. The role will be located in Frederick, US.

The IT Site Lead will be a part of the Site Leadership team as an integral team member. This ensures the role is truly part of delivering business and IT strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for an IT leader to engage with key business stakeholders at Frederick site in the development and delivery of the IT strategy and roadmap for the site, which will accelerate the transformation outcomes and align with our Operations Digital Transformation strategy, supporting growth through innovation at AstraZeneca.

This role has the responsibility to develop strategic and operational relationships within the Frederick site, providing IT leadership, external perspectives and true business partnership to the critical functions within these Operations sites. The IT Site Lead establishes and promotes the overall vision for how IT can support our business partners.

This resource will have a deep understanding of the Business area and IT industry, and the implications of emerging technologies especially AI for the wider business environment. This will enable the role to proactively identify opportunities for IT to deliver innovative solutions to customer issues/challenges and situations where leading-edge technological innovations can be deployed to business advantage

Working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, this is a hands-on role, requiring an individual who is driven to achieve clear, measurable results. You will constantly strive to improve key processes and simplify our ways of working. This will require a high level of collaborative working across functions.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Single point of contact supporting key business areas at the Frederick site, representing Global IT functions. Accountable for all IT services delivered on the site. This includes BAU and / or project services, delivered through local IT resources or global AZ IT teams.
• Build strong strategic relationships with large and complex customer groups and senior partners, developing a deep understanding of short-term and long-term business direction, changes and needs, lead key engagement initiatives to understand demand.
• Collaborate with Operations IT Functions to align on the strategic IT solution roadmap for Operations sites and deployment to the Frederick site.
• Facilitate focus groups, business partner meetings, and other ‘idea generators’ to stimulate the creation of ideas among colleagues and staff, as well as gain feedback regarding IT services.

• Present and gain commitment to IT initiatives through informing and presenting established, changed, or new IT services to customer groups.
• Propose and deliver solutions to achieve agreed outcomes, ensure that solutions fulfil the future strategic needs and challenges of the business. Shape and define business cases, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.
• Work with colleagues across the BTG and C4
  
  Es, (e.g., architects and engineers) across functions or internationally to identify the capabilities required to ensure outcomes/requirements are clearly understood and can be delivered.
• Ensure business partners are fully engaged in IT Capability initiatives and future business trends, as well as the implications of IT enabled change on the business, processes and customers.

• Accountable for the IT demand portfolio and lifecycle management of IT Assets for the sites. Manage associated budgets, ensuring business value, fit for purpose, and costs balanced for the Frederick site.
• Lead high-level investigations on requirements specifications, ensuring alignment with Business and IT strategy, and advise on practical alternatives when necessary.
• Lead business impact assessments, identifying risks and issues that may affect current and future business…