GlobalITSBusinessPartner(CEManufacturing)

**_PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:_** * Provides **strategic leadership** in shaping and delivering short- and long-term global manufacturing objectives through the effective and innovative use of technology, ensuring alignment to enterprise priorities. * Serves as the **primary IT partner to the Global Manufacturing Leadership Team** , influencing strategic direction and ensuring technology is positioned as a core enabler of manufacturing performance, efficiency, quality, and reliability. * **Owns and maintains a multi‑year global manufacturing technology roadmap** , ensuring alignment across sites, regions, and enterprise priorities, and enabling a clear path from strategic intent through to execution. * Leads the **global demand management and portfolio shaping process** for Manufacturing, ensuring that initiatives are clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned to business value, operational impact, and regulatory requirements. * Works in close partnership with Global ITS delivery and PPM teams to **prioritize and sequence demand** , ensuring solutions are scalable, executable, and aligned to the broader enterprise architecture. * Drives **standardization and scalability of manufacturing technology solutions** across the global network, reducing fragmentation and enabling global consistency while allowing for appropriate regional flexibility. * Promotes the development of an **integrated manufacturing technology and data landscape** , enabling end‑to‑end visibility and connectivity across ERP, MES, shopfloor systems, and quality platforms. * Drives alignment between technology strategy and **regulated manufacturing requirements** , including GxP compliance, validation expectations, and quality management system standards. * Identifies and advances opportunities to leverage **emerging technologies within manufacturing** , including AI/ML, industrial IoT (IIoT), advanced analytics, smart factory / Industry 4.0 solutions, digital twins, and automation, ensurin