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Associate Director, IT SCM

Illumina, Inc.

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based on 12 Reviews

15-20 years

Bangalore / Bengaluru

1 vacancy

Associate Director, IT SCM

ILLUMINZ

posted 8hr ago

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Job Description

Summary

The Information Technology (IT) Associate Director, accountable for Global Supply Chain and Operations, is a High Impact, High Value role for Illumina Global Information Services (GIS). The ideal candidate will possess strong transformational leadership, exceptional management skills, and a diverse deep technology background. Are you ready for an opportunity to thrive in a challenging, innovative, and fast paced environment that strives to improve human health by unlocking the power of the genome?

This leader will be accountable for the end-to-end partnership, relationship management, and technology lifecycle for the Supply Chain Value Streams focused on Global planning and supporting Global Procurement, Global Logitics, EAM and EHS functions.

The incumbent will lead India GIS SCM team of business savvy technology professionals that actively engage with GIS function leadership and business partners to develop IT Business technology strategies, capability roadmaps, continuous improvement, AMS monitoring, and associated portfolios. The team is accountable for full technology lifecycle from demand ideation, scoping, requirements, solution architecture, development, test, operations, sustaining, CI, and retirement.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning

Actively communicates with business, IT, vendors, and other stakeholders, to ensure awareness of vision, strategy, roadmap, portfolios, progress, risks, and results associated with critical business capabilities and technologies.
Collaborates with business stakeholders to proactively identify and evaluate risks associated with business decisions that may impact a capability technology.
Facilitate the design, implementation, management, and communication of customer focused strategic business plans and capabilities.
Develop and maintain a three-year roadmap strategy in partnership with key business leaders and stakeholders.

Leadership and Management

Establishes Engineering Forward Centers of Excellence for development and configuration of technology platforms.
Ensure effective leadership, teamwork and collaboration with directors, managers, and staff across GIS to achieve a unified and responsive IT services approach to the Business.
Manage internal personnel, external partners and departmental budgets for on-time and on-budget delivery.
Develops the team to minimize single point of failures for critical resources and skills. Fosters a team environment in alignment with core values, and provides coaching, mentorship, and development opportunities for team members.
Communicates across GIS for awareness of critical business capabilities.

Business Partnership & Relationship Management

Develop and sustain effective relationships and partnerships with stakeholders, providing insights and advice on opportunities to leverage technology for business outcomes.
Develop deep and broad business, functional and domain expertise to enhance GIS business knowledge base.
Serves as a trusted advisor for business partners and key stakeholders. Establish strategic partnership with stakeholders while ensuring business continuity and operations.
Single Point of Accountability for business partners to simplify the IT Organization and deliver results. Ensure effective consultation with business partners in exploring and applying innovative outside-in solution ideas to address business opportunities and challenges.
Cultivates and demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of integrated business planning, manufacturing, procurement, facilities, warehouse management, transport management and supplier collaboration.

Technology

Evaluate current and future technology trends to determine impact of technology on business capabilities and operations
Develop domain architecture expertise and ensure the proper architecture and design of business-enabling solutions; that are consistent with enterprise standards, principles, and design guidelines.
Partner effectively with IT leaders to identify potential shared platform solutions that can be leveraged across other business areas to minimize redundant solutions.
Ensure that technology solutions meet business expectations and delivers value.
Implements processes and technology to ensure business operations and continuity.

Solution Architecture and Delivery

Partner with functional groups and development team to deliver on product and service goals and business requirements.
Collaborate with business customers to define project scope, identify, and prioritize requirements.
Report against service levels by measuring how successful the team performs against key performance metrics.
Ensure the on-time, on-budget, and quality development of fit-for-purpose business-enabling solutions through internal development, alternative delivery capabilities or managed service providers.

Requirements/Education

Typically requires 15 years of relevant experience with a bachelor s degree or 12 years with an advanced degree.
Requires 15-20 years of experience as a Technologist engaging with and delivering for SAP Global Planning (PP, APO (gATP/aATP/SNP), IBP (SOP/DP/ IO/R&S), PPDS), and working knowledge of SAP WM/EWM, SAP Ariba and SAP MM, 5 years of management experience is preferred.
Deep knowledge and understanding of Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing in Life-Sciences, Medical Devices, or High-Tech industries.
Experience architecting and delivering business enabling technologies supporting ERP, preferably with SAP ECC and/or S/4.
Ability to travel onsite as needed. Availability to work west coast and international time zones.
Working experience and knowledge in IT solution delivery using delivery approaches including engineering forward in-house and external development via managed services providers.
Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated experience establishing and fostering relationships with business partners and teams, as well as supporting informational technology organizations.
Demonstrated relationship savvy in building effective trusted advisor relationships with business partners and IT, leveraging effective relationship-building, negotiation, mediation and influencing skills.
Understanding and experience with IT Operating models including product and capability centric.
Strong financial, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to evolve with a rapidly changing environment and anticipate changes in technology.
Experience summarizing and presenting findings and challenges to senior level executives.
Able to negotiate demand with business partners.
Results focused with a track record of delivery across simultaneous projects and teams.
Demonstrated ability to lead through uncertainty, show flexibility and adapt to change. Demonstrated agility in resolving conflict and helping bring issues to positive and impactful.

Position Summary:

Provides leadership for those involved in the development, design and optimization of one or more information technology and systems functions supporting company business processes and technical information systems platforms. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, analysis, selection and modification of enterprise systems, application software, installation of network hardware/software and database management. Provides direction for the effort required to protect the company s data, tools and information systems. Ensures infrastructure architecture standards maximize efficiency and support platform compatibility. Usually requires subject matter knowledge of user group for practical application of system characteristics. Coordinates delivery of services to user groups and ensures IT service is uninterrupted. Typically focused on internal IT service delivery for employees, but may have an external client focus if involved with company-hosted, web-enabled, or outsourced solutions delivery.

Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs and other related duties may be assigned.

Scope of Responsibilities:

Participates with other senior leaders to establish strategic plans and objectives for a functional area or integrated department.
Makes final decisions on functional matters and ensures operational effectiveness.
Develops, modifies, and executes company policies that have enterprise-wide effect.
Works on highly complex assignments where problems are not clearly defined, and fundamental principles do not fully apply.
Erroneous decisions may cause critical delay in accomplishing long-term goals and directly impact the success of a function or multiple departments.
Regularly interacts with senior management, executives and/or major customers.
Reconciles multiple stakeholder views to drive business results.
Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating matters of significance to the organization.
Directs the activities of a functional area or integrated department through lower management.
Leads team(s) to develop new methods and solve complex matters and has overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, and managing expense priorities.

Experience/Education: