Senior Manager/Associate Director IT Service Delivery IOPS

Known for its scientific and operational excellence, Regeneron is a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron commercializes medicines for eye diseases, high LDL-cholesterol, atopic dermatitis and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, pain, cancer and infectious diseases . SUMMARY . The IT Service Delivery role oversees several key functions within the IT department that enable the delivery of a high-quality service to end users, and to ensure Service Support and Service Delivery processes are in place to meet business needs. This position is a stakeholder facing role and requires that you establish and manage expectations within the business and drive the IT team to achieve those expectations to a high standard. Position is responsible to ensure that value is achieved as anticipated from the outsourced relationships under management, typically within a domain or service area. To ensure that the overall services as expressed in the Statement of Work and related exhibits, and the service levels for outsourced services/functions are maintained and continually improved, and that any problems with the day-to-day delivery of services provided by the Service Provider are minimized . JOB RESPONSIBILITIES . Responsible for the Management of Service Providers, for quality of Service, . Responsible for ensuring the highest level of service availability and efficiency as benchmarked against industry standards and consistent with enterprise goals and constraints . Maintain high performing operational service support functions for support of operational "Run" activities for the IOPS business . Responsible for compliance, security and effective delivery of Services throughout the business . As owner of the escalation process the Service Delivery Manager will take ownership of major incidents to ensure coordination of resolving parties, effective communication to stakeholders and post incident review . Monitor, control and support service delivery . ensuring systems, methodologies and procedures are in place and followed . Champion Service and Support in Operational projects and develop a strong understanding of projects impacting your service area and ensuring service impact is minimized and agreed . Be accountable for the quality of the end to end service and performance . ensuring future demand from growth and projects is understood and factored into capacity plans for all associated systems . Drive internal and third-party service review meetings covering performance, service improvements, quality and processes . Make recommendations for Service Improvement Plans and ensure actions are followed through to completion in a timely manner . Work with internal and third-party teams to ensure actions are taken and completed to protect and improve services . Provide regular and accurate management reporting on IT Service performance . Staff Management including recruitment, mentoring, training, target setting and performance assessment . Be an ambassador for IT, working across the business to provide effective communication on IT matters and build relationships with other teams to ensure effective dialogue between department . Experience . 8-10 years in the role of delivering IT services to business or consumers with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience of large scale outsourced managed services . Experience of managing service contracts, from a service and financial perspective . Strong GxP experience and proven experience of managing in highly regulated environments required . Strong experience in Infrastructure Engineering in manufacturing and automation environments . Service Management or Support in a large-scale and diverse environment of incident management, escalation procedures and related disciplines . Deep experience of ITIL disciplines, Capacity Management, Reporting and Infrastructure Monitoring . Excellent knowledge of the specific Service discipline i.e. Data center, Cloud, Network, Client Services etc . Experience with operating system Microsoft Windows & Linux Citrix, Data Domain, VMAX . Experience with monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Splunk, etc . Problem determination experience in root cause analysis and problem resolution skills . Hands-on experience of formal outsourcing processes and methodologies . Ability to work with Service Providers to ensure effective operations and agreed upon service levels . Demonstrated experience in Transition Management of services to Operations . Experience of managing 3rd parties and 3rd party delivered services . Experience in managing staff as related to the delivery of the service . Good leadership and people management skills . Good written and verbal communication skills . Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide and influence appropriate courses of action . Excellent customer facing/customer service skills . Ability to work with global team and utilize global best practices for service delivery . Able to demonstrate a high degree of flexibility including shift and out of hours working . Excellent organizational skills . Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities . Education . Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or computer engineering . Bachelor's degree in technology management field . This is an opportunity to join our select team that is already leading the way in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. Apply today and learn more about Regeneron's unwavering commitment to combining good science & good business . To all agencies . 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