I&T Infrastructure Director, Global Network & Connectivity Services

The Director, Global Network & Connectivity Services is responsible for defining, evolving, and operationalizing the enterprise strategy for global network and connectivity services in a mission critical, multinational biotech environment. This role owns the vision, operating model, and outcomes for global connectivity platforms—including LAN, WAN, cloud and hybrid networking, firewall, network access control, and voice—ensuring services are secure, resilient, scalable, and tightly aligned to business priorities across R&D, manufacturing, corporate, and commercial environments.

As the enterprise leader for global connectivity, this role ensures consistent service delivery, observability, and operational resilience across regions, sites, cloud platforms, and managed service providers. The Director sets standards, establishes governance, builds organizational capability, and partners across Infrastructure, Security, Cloud, and Application teams to reduce risk, simplify the environment, and enable business transformation.

Reporting to this position: 5-6 direct reports; network and connectivity technical professionals and an offshore managed services team. Key Relationships:
Close relationship with Managed Services Providers and Technology Providers.

Define and own the global network and connectivity services strategy and operating model, ensuring consistent capabilities, standards, and outcomes across regions. Establish enterprise and regional reference architectures and technology roadmaps that support site operations, cloud platforms, partner connectivity, and mergers and acquisitions. Reduce complexity and technical debt through standardization, simplification, and rationalization of legacy technologies and balance global standardization with regional and regulatory requirement.

Ensure end-to-end availability, performance, and resilience of global connectivity services supporting regulated manufacturing, R&D, and corporate operations. Own service-level expectations (availability, latency, incident trends) and drive proactive risk mitigation, capacity planning, and failure prevention across all regions. Act as the senior escalation and decision authority for global connectivity incidents impacting business operations.

Define and own the global network monitoring and observability strategy, ensuring consistent visibility across on‑prem, cloud, hybrid, and managed service environments. Ensure network telemetry (metrics, logs, events, flows) is integrated with the enterprise monitoring and observability platforms to enable correlated, service-level insights. Use observability to drive proactive detection, faster root cause analysis, and preventative improvement, not just reactive incident response.

Partner closely with Information Security to ensure network platforms are secure by design, incorporating zero‑trust principles, segmentation, and strong access controls. Ensure connectivity services support regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., GxP, SOX), including audit readiness and traceability. Balance risk tolerance, resiliency, and usability in architectural and operational decisions.

Drive the managed service strategy and operating model for network services, including clear accountability, performance measures, and escalation paths. Provide governance and oversight of managed service providers and key technology vendors, ensuring service quality, cost efficiency, and alignment to enterprise standards.