Site IT Lead & Technology Business Partner

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Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat.

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Job Description

With the merger of BD Biosciences and Diagnostic Solutions’ businesses with Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), applications for this position should now be submitted directly to Waters.

Waters is a global leader in life sciences.

The company supports research and diagnostics by providing advanced analytical instruments, software solutions, and comprehensive services.

Particularly in regulated, high-volume laboratory environments, Waters offers technologies grounded in sound knowledge of biology, chemistry, and physics.

Working with laboratories worldwide, Waters is dedicated to accelerating the availability of safe and effective medicines, ensuring the quality of food and water, and improving healthcare—for example, through earlier disease diagnosis, monitoring of everyday infections, or combating antibiotic resistance.

Approximately 16,000 employees worldwide are committed to transforming scientific challenges into practical solutions that sustainably improve people’s lives.

The role of the

Site IT Lead & Technology Business Partner is to serve as the TGS representative responsible for partnering with local Plant Managers and their site leadership teams to drive and shape demand for new requests and to ensure day to day manufacturing and quality operations at a site level are enabled through the continued availability of TGS supported technologies for the Manufacturing, Plant Maintenance, Quality control and Quality engineering functions.

The role is also accountable for ensuring that the full portfolio of manufacturing-specific TGS work for the plants is delivered as planned and budgeted and includes ensuring corresponding projects, plans, status reports, compliance and regulatory measures, resources, etc. are in place for the manufacturing locations.

This is a great opportunity for someone to facilitate building a strong, collaborative, trusted partnership between the Site IT and Plant Management teams.

This role needs to bring together the appropriate technology, process and workplace solutions so they contribute to the overall Operations (Manufacturing, Plant Maintenance, Smart Factory and Quality) agenda of the region.

This position reports directly to the TGS Central Teams Site IT Regional BU Lead and keeps a dotted line to the plant.

The objective of this role is to actively partner with the plant Operations teams to ensure their day to day operational technology challenges are addressed and that their strategic priorities are understood, including defining ways on how TGS can support and advance those objectives.

Primary responsibilities will include

• Developing a deep knowledge of the local Manufacturing environment, including the key driver goals, short and long-term roadmaps, business processes and key personnel.
• Establish and earn a value-adding, strategic partner relationship with the Plant management team, the regional Plant IT and the entire TGS function.
• Partner with the Plant leadership to plan new joint initiatives, evaluate proposals, and determine how they fit into roadmaps and priorities.
• Partner with site management to measure benefits of TGS investments at the site, measure and communicate value realized on a periodic basis through defined and agreed metrics and supporting analysis, own SLAs and report out to site management.
• Integrated Partnership with site leadership, TGS corporate, Info Sec and TGS managed vendors.

Single focal point for site leadership.

• Identify and define new opportunities to leverage technology and/or process re-design to advance business strategies that directly contribute to cost optimization and/or risk mitigation and compliance.
• Lead, guide and use the local IT team to support the plant operations and outsourced support staff.
• Ensure delivery provides the desired outcomes as well as work with other TGS Business Partners and Core Areas of Delivery to ensure that solutions are not siloed and that they are informed by and aligned to BD’s enterprise roadmaps.
• Ensure projects and initiatives are delivered, providing consistent and effective communication on status, managing escalation and avoiding risk.
• Build Knowledge and capability in Manufacturing technologies and processes in emerging technologies as well as improvements to existing investments by keeping abreast of industry trends and subject matter expertise in usage of new trends.
• Accountable for the TGS services at the site and support the ISC teams when rolling out new solutions to help create a long‑term sustainable IT‑OT ecosystem.
• Accountable for the lifecycle management of infrastructure, applications & services. Formulate a strategy for retain, retire and replace local applications.
• Serve as a continuous connector.

Your Profile

Education and Experience

The ideal candidate will bring a combination of operational understanding and strategic thinking, have both business and technology experience and have exceptional relationship building skills with a solution oriented mindset.

In addition, this person should also possess

• Minimum of 10 years' technical background – infrastructure, PC server, firewall, network, development, or manufacturing execution systems in Manufacturing Setup
• Bachelor’s degree in technology, business or a related field is strongly preferred.
• Accomplished in multiple process and technology capabilities across Manufacturing ideally in the Med device sector.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and lead service providers, remotely.
• Ability to influence and break down silos within an organization as well across organizations.
• Ability to communicate complex business / technical challenges in a simplified manner.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement and project management approaches, tools, and phases.
• Exceptional ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods.
• Highly collaborative work style which includes working effectively across all organizational levels.
• Strong ability to work collaboratively the BD Way, as part of a team and on own initiative and comfortable dealing with various stakeholders across all areas of the business – internal and external.
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization and in overcoming ambiguity, comfortable in dealing with different parallel priorities.
• Leading by example, mentoring, and motivating others around them.
• Analytical, evaluative, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Excellent judgment and decision‑making.
• Able to align and work with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong humility, listening, creativity, and negotiation skills.
• Accept ownership.
• Knowledge & Skills
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and persuasively at all levels, both verbally and in writing.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do.

We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare.

At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture.

Join us and enjoy a culture where face‑to‑face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

To learn more about BD visit https://bd. com/careers ( opens in new window).

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