Director, Digital Plant Lead

Digital is the multiplier that will allow Development Sciences and Clinical Supply (DSCS) to deliver better experiments faster, efficient filing and launch, more robust supply chains and higher-confidence decisions across the portfolio. The DSCS Digital Technologies (DDT) organization is tasked with the mission to pioneer and deploy innovative digital technologies that drive the acquisition, automation and utilization of data to enhance insights, efficiency, and quality of DSCS processes and methods.

Digital is the multiplier that will allow Development Sciences and Clinical Supply (DSCS) to deliver better experiments faster, efficient filing and launch, more robust supply chains and higher-confidence decisions across the portfolio. The DSCS Digital Technologies (DDT) organization is tasked with the mission to pioneer and deploy innovative digital technologies that drive the acquisition, automation and utilization of data to enhance insights, efficiency, and quality of DSCS processes and methods.

The DSCS Digital Technologies (DDT) organization within our Research Laboratories is accountable for driving the digital transformation, data architecture, and technology solutions that enable execution and operations within the DSCS organization. The Director, Digital Plant Lead is responsible for developing an integrated strategy for digital capabilities across our Research facilities, including but not limited to manufacturing execution systems (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, planning and finite scheduling capabilities and inventory management systems.

This role will focus on digital plant design, with the goal of ensuring that information and materials can be shared seamlessly across the research laboratories network.

The Director, Digital Plant Lead will

• Define business requirements for the successful design and implementation of digital manufacturing and supply chain capabilities, in collaboration with site leaders and Research Laboratories IT.
• Proactively identify opportunities to harmonize system implementation across sites to maximize interoperability and streamline the flow of information and materials across sites.
• Drive cross-site and cross-divisional alignment on systems implementation, including MES and ERP.
• In collaboration with CMC Data Governance, ensure a consistent approach to enterprise data creation and management that is aligned with FAIR principles across the Research laboratories network.
• Support the design and implementation of digital tools that streamline master data management within manufacturing and inventory management systems, including but not limited to MES and ERP.
• Work strategically with Change Management and DSCS functional area SMEs to design business processes that effectively leverage digital capabilities for master and transactional data generation and management, minimizing work that occurs outside of enterprise systems.
• Contribute to the advancement of the DSCS Digital Technologies Strategic Roadmap, aligning system implementation with business process execution and data management requirements to create a digitally enabled network across our Research laboratories.

• Requirements Translation Translate business process needs into system implementation requirements for digital manufacturing and supply chain capabilities, including MES and ERP.
• Digital plant design Provide expertise in virtual plant design across enterprise systems, leveraging industry best practices and learnings from across the company manufacturing and supply chain network.
• System integration Align enterprise system implementation across sites and divisions, facilitating interoperability and enabling the seamless flow of information and materials between facilities.
• Business process transformation Drive business process harmonization across the Research Laboratories network, ensuring that business processes are executed in the appropriate enterprise systems to ensure contemporaneous and comprehensive knowledge capture.
• Performance monitoring Define and track KPIs to monitor enterprise system adoption and value realized through digital transformation within our Research laboratories.
• Systems architecture Work closely with system architects and end-users to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient implementation of enterprise systems.
• Documentation & Enablement Document system requirements, business processes and system architecture. Support the development of…