Director, IT Service Delivery and Operations

Full Time
Rockville, MD 20850
Posted
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Description

Our Mission

Aurinia exists to make a difference in transforming people's lives by delivering innovative treatments to patients living with serious, rare autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. From the earliest days of the company, we've applied an inventive, thoughtful, and responsible approach to developing therapies for people in need. Through our dedication, we relentlessly preserve and execute with integrity to reach our main objective, to improve patients' health. In addition to driving adoption of our approved therapy, LUPKYNIS™, for appropriate people with lupus nephritis, we are also actively pursuing a broader portfolio of innovative drugs for autoimmune disease.

Our strategy leverages the skills and knowledge of our incredible team and our deep experience in principled drug development and commercialization. Aurinia provides a working environment where individuals can thrive in a professional, creative, and inspirational atmosphere. Together, we are driven to make an impact for our patient communities as advocates and partners in innovation.

Overview

The Director of IT Service Delivery will report to the Vice President of Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer. The position provides leadership for a central department within the Division of Information Technology Services.

This position will be responsible for championing best practices and managing a team for the development of service management processes based on ITSM constructs. The Director is responsible for driving the following initiatives:

  • Define and implement a strategy to drive adoption of service management and operational best practices relevant for Aurinia information and technology services.
  • Evolve the maturity of the IT Service Delivery function.
  • Ensure all service management processes enable IT service agility.
  • Create an environment that supports customer self-service and automation of routine service requests.
  • Foster continuous service delivery optimization and improvement.
  • Identify resources and sourcing of service management operations support.
  • Develop self-auditing and compliance capabilities around ITSM procedures.
  • Develop and implement a strategy and roadmap for organizational excellence in the application of ITSM services, procedures and tools.

Responsibilities:

  • Directs the IT Operations and IT Service Desk functions.
  • Oversees strategic sourcing, partnerships and vendor performance management
  • Defines enterprise architecture and standards
  • Plans, manages, and directs the budget process for new technology initiatives
  • Acts as an escalation point for the IT Operations and IT Service Desk functions
  • Represents IT Service Delivery on the IT Leadership team
  • Represents IT Service Delivery on Security and Risk Management team
  • Oversees and supports the cross functional product/program management teams
  • Manages the definition and monitoring of KPIs related to IT business value and IT performance related to IT Service Delivery functions.
  • Conducts workforce planning and development for responsible functions
  • Coaches, mentors and develops direct reports and high potential staff
  • Oversees regulatory compliance within the scope of IT Service Delivery

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
  • 5 years + experience in a management/leadership role
  • 10 years + experience working in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Understanding of a commercial organizations’ needs
  • Proven experience in consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
  • Strong interpersonal skills to balance expectations with business requirements
  • Demonstrated leadership, supervisory, planning and change management skills
  • Leads with an innovative and continuous improvement mindset; able to call on business sense and analytical skills to develop new ideas and solutions
  • Comfort in working with senior management and employees at all levels
  • Able to consistently live Aurinia’s core We Care values of creating opportunity, acting responsibly, relentlessly persevering and executing with integrity.

Additional Information
All candidate information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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