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Salary: USD 260,000 - 290,000 / annual
Asahi Kasei Therapeutics, the global specialty pharmaceutical business of Asahi Kasei Group, seeks an Executive Director of IT Business Systems to lead enterprise digital transformation and business systems strategy. This is a strategic leadership role managing a global, geographically distributed team across Europe and North America.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Digital Transformation: Develop and execute enterprise Business Systems strategy aligned with organizational objectives and digital transformation initiatives. Lead cloud-based adoption of enterprise systems, automation, analytics, and digital business processes. Build and maintain a multi-year system and transformation roadmap. Drive organizational change management to ensure successful adoption of new systems and processes.
Global Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global team supporting business systems across virtual and geographically distributed environments. Foster a coaching-based leadership culture emphasizing accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
Business Relationship Management: Build strong relationships with functional business leaders across Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, Medical, Quality, Clinical, Regulatory Affairs, and Corporate Functions. Act as trusted advisor translating business strategy into system capabilities. Improve the Business IT Operating model and facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Enterprise Systems & Process Excellence: Provide leadership and governance for ERP platforms, financial systems, CRM platforms, commercial applications, data and analytics solutions, and integration platforms. Manage the business system project portfolio covering implementation, optimization, and lifecycle management. Drive standardization and continuous improvement across global business processes.
Data Management & Analytics: Establish and drive data governance, master data management, and information management practices. Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and compliance. Promote data-driven decision making through dashboards and executive reporting. Enable advanced analytics and AI-ready data capabilities.
Performance Management: Define system and service performance metrics. Establish KPI frameworks and dashboard reporting. Lead benefits realization and communicate portfolio status, risks, and outcomes to IT PMO and CIO.
Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, and quality requirements. Support validation and lifecycle management of regulated systems. Manage vendor relationships and third-party service providers.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 15 years of progressive IT leadership experience
- 10+ years of people management in a global and virtual environment
- ITIL Foundation Certification
- PMP, PgMP, Agile, or equivalent project management certification
- Experience with ERP, EPM, and data platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle EPM, Power Platform (preferred)
- Strong enterprise system experience in a global life-science pharmaceutical business
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications and collaboration tools
- Experience building global data management and governance frameworks
- Experience building global system teams with focus on performance and business value creation
- Executive presence and influence while driving organizational change
- Strategic thinking and life science business acumen
- Strong presentation and executive storytelling skills
