Requirements: English
Company: Almirall
Region: Sant Feliu de Llobregat , Catalonia
Main Mission
Contribute to digitalization in the R&D Laboratory Area holding the responsibility of IT Applications and partnering with Data Science Team. Maximize the value of the IT solutions provided to the business, defining the best practices and ensuring they are correctly adopted. Responsible for the implementation of new lab software solutions and its maintenance including GxP environments in coordination with vendors, meeting performance expectations. Support the design of Lab business models and strategic business needs.
Main tasks & Responsibilities
Operational:
- IT service delivery and IT project manager responsible for Lab systems in R&D.
- Identify areas of improvement and increase efficiency of implemented Lab processes and systems.
- Translate business requirements to technical and functional requirements and organize them into value streams.
- Analyze laboratories and design the technical systems and processes according to strategic R&D needs.
- Maximize the value of IT solutions, defining best approaches and practices, ensuring an appropriate adoption, homogeneity, and maximizing efficiency.
- Review, simplify and verify requirements at regular intervals in the project/enhancement lifecycle to safeguard the business and the users needs, emphasizing user adoption and ease of use
- Coordinate and work with service support teams and Lab Vendors to ensure applications meet functional and performance expectations.
- Ensure documentation and knowledge transfer to service and lab support teams.
- Accountable for the update of system maps and data flows within internal IT inventories.
- Ensure appropriate function of instrumental software (including backups), complying with security requirements, data integrity, requirements and system risk assessment, compliance normative (GxP), and contributing to reduce obsolescence.
- Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Test is performed periodically and decide whether or not to initiate the recovery plan.
- Lead Operational Digital Lab meetings. And execute action plans to cover key functional enhancements on existing lab softwares.
- SPOC (Single point of contact) of users for coordinating/supporting issues and demand redirecting to the right teams
- Ensure new acquisitions and upgrades are cost efficient and compatible with long term business goals
- Establish effective and meaningful KPIs to measure area performance
- Project management and agile mindset for the implementation of new solutions and coordination with cross functional teams
- Coordinate the implementation of a laboratory data platform
Communication:
- Active listening to R&D Laboratory stakeholders to understand the business requirements
- Provide Lab support teams the technical requirements in line with business objectives
- Lead R&D lab meetings and workshops to enable proper requirement gathering and reach agreements between different R&D departments about software usage.
- Lead design and implementation of the Lab business process under the area of responsibility, adding value and ensuring proper integration
- Proactive collaboration with required work teams (Data Science, Data Analytics, Laboratory technical support)
- Maintain proper relationships with Lab Vendors (Mettler, Waters, Agilent, etc.)
Business:
- Strategic contact for IT Business Partners to properly translate Business Requirements into improved processes or implementation projects with the focus on R&D Labs.
- Works with Business Process Owners and key users to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve the strategic vision and operating laboratory data platform
- Establish and support governance for lab topics, ensuring coordination between the different IT teams. This might include support for helping to design a global framework for Master Data in collaboration with the Data Science team and data stewards so instrument data can be exploited easily to get more insights
- Inform the BPOs of any events that compromise the continuity for the business systems under their responsibility
- Change Management with Business counterparts to ensure proper adoption of new processes
Education
- Bachelors degree in computer science, chemistry, biology, physics, engineering or closely related discipline to management of laboratory systems.
Experience
- At least 5 years of Lab Software Management experience in:
- Lead Digital Lab implementation projects in pharma or chemical industry from design to deployment
- Lab application development, process design, and system validation practices
- Demonstrated experience in Laboratory