Executive Director, Digital and Autonomous Labs

## Executive Director, Digital and Autonomous Labs Apply remote type:
Hybrid locations:
USA
- Pennsylvania
- West Point:
IRL
- Dublin
- Leopardstown (Red Oak):
USA
- New Jersey
- Rahwaytime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
August 10, 2026 (13 days left to apply) job requisition :
R408714
** Job Description
** Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and implementing innovative solutions that enable organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable scientific innovation.

Our Digital Manufacturing team is a trusted business partner that enables purposeful innovation and sustainable value, through the delivery and support of seamless digital capabilities that assure safe, compliant, and reliable supply. Digital Manufacturing strives to be the digital force that drives the our manufacturing division to be the best at supplying innovative and affordable medicines and vaccines.

The leader of our Digital and Autonomous Labs is a key role for Digital Manufacturing; this leader has overall accountability for incorporating new technologies, ensuring our laboratories evolve to become more efficient and effective through digitization, automation, robotics, advanced real-time data analytics and ongoing process verification to track trends, prevent deviations or out-of-specifications, and optimize scheduling. Our Digitally Enabled Labs leader will be highly aware of current technological best practices across the bio-pharmaceutical and will work with the leaders of our quality function to design, implement and support best-in-class platforms that will accelerate our digital transformation across our laboratories.

The role reports to the Digital Manufacturing Leader and works in close partnership with other Quality Leaders and key business stakeholders to deliver sustainable value through seamless and standardized digital capabilities across the full manufacturing network.

The responsibilities of the Digital and Autonomous Laboratories leader include, but are not limited to the following:
* Manage a group of about 65 professionals, across several geographies, promoting career development and continuous upskilling of talent to build incredible teams and the ecosystem to empower them.
* Work with the Digital Manufacturing Leader in defining the digital business platforms that are most relevant to our laboratories and work with the relevant teams to set the supporting technology strategy, including: technology standards, value creation targets, implementation plans and the associated delivery and support organizational requirements.
* Work with the Digital Manufacturing Leader in developing and implementing next-generation laboratory digital strategies that leverage cloud, intelligent automation and advanced data/analytics capabilities. Build the talent and capability of our manufacturing digital teams to lead across these emerging spaces.
* Deliver on the Digitally Enabled Labs capabilities of connected instruments, digital method execution, integrated planning & scheduling, digital integration, digital analytics, and future technologies (AI & Augmented Reality).
* Facilitate the delivery and transition from the current systems model/ architecture/ business process to an enhanced model enabling data structure, business process, and systems architecture prerequisites for the strategic, cloud-based architecture supporting Quality Control.
* Work with business stakeholders to deliver a new operating model and business processes that take advantage of digital solutions, robotics, autonomous operations and drive efficiency across Quality.
* Support the DEQ Value Team Leader in working in partnership with key quality stakeholders to prioritize the relevant investment portfolio and share accountability with those stakeholders for the maximization of the value realized from all investments, including from existing assets. Continuously work to improve the efficiency of our delivery and support processes and assume responsibility for driving down the total cost of ownership of our Digitally Enabled Labs.
* Keep the operation of our laboratory digital platforms stable, compliant, secure and predictable, and demonstrate continuous improvement in our operational metrics, capabilities and processes. Maintain an excellent track record for regulatory inspections and internal audits.
* Maintain a strong leadership presence, demonstrating thought leadership and educating/ coaching manufacturing digital leaders on areas of opportunity, while driving mindset and the positive adoption of a new digital savvy culture within manufacturing quality.
* Support the DEQ Value Team Leader in leading our organization in the adoption of new agile, risk-based validation approaches and accelerate our adoption of Computer Systems Assurance approaches, that will drive improved levels of protection for patient safety, product quality and…