Lonza · 5 hours ago
IT Infrastructure COE Head
Greenwood, SC
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expLonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. The IT Infrastructure COE Head will manage and optimize IT infrastructure, lead the global IT Infrastructure Team, and set the vision for IT operations, ensuring alignment with business needs and overseeing departmental finances.
BiotechnologyLife SciencePharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Manage a state-of-the-art and robust IT Infrastructure. Define, develop and standardize data center and network services together with Enterprise Architecture. Achieve a cost optimized, flexible and agile IT infrastructure that is strongly aligned with the business needs by leveraging new technologies. Manage outsourced commodity IT-Infrastructure services for Networks and Data Centers and strongly manage the outsourced providers
Lead the global IT Infrastructure Team. Responsible for all staff related activities such as performance qualification, salary review, staff development replacement and recruitment. Coach the team members on a day-to-day basis
Set overall vision and strategy for the delivery of IT operations in terms of data center, network, and disaster recovery. Establish and enforce IT infrastructure standards, procedures and methods, assess and approve IT infrastructure vendors
Oversee departmental finances, including budgeting and forecasting. Ensure tactical capacity planning. Coach the supervised team on a regular basis. Responsible for staff related activities such as recruitment, development, replacement, performance qualification and salary review. Monitor and continuously improve the performance of the assigned teams
Manage contract negotiations with external infrastructure providers in collaboration with procurement and the IT Vendor Management team. Define and monitor service level agreements such as service availability and system performance. Perform level 3 troubleshooting and lead complex problem-solving efforts involving outside vendors and other support personnel from the organization
Ensure comprehensive disaster recovery architecture is maintained. Develop procedures to maintain security and protect systems from unauthorized use, acts of nature and user abuse – together with the IT security team. Lead global, strategic technology initiatives, recommend and plan upgrades, enable innovation and leverage IT trends
Contribute to the overall development and continuous improvement of the IT strategy, organization, framework, processes and tools as member of the global IT leadership team
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
IT-Infrastructure - Highly Experienced 10+ years
IT Security - Advanced Level 5-10 years
Cloud Computing - Highly Experienced - 10+ years
Responsible for 5-7 direct and 20-40 indirect reports
Oversee/collaborate with 100-200 strong partner(s) teams
Preferred
Master's degree in Information Technology
Benefits
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
401(k) with company match
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Paid time off and holidays
Career development opportunities
Inclusive and collaborative work environment
Company
Lonza
Lonza Group supplies products and services to pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$444.8M2023-11-06Post Ipo Debt· $444.8M
2020-12-07IPO
Leadership Team
Wolfgang Wienand
Chief Executive Officer
Alfons Ehinger
Founder
Recent News
2025-12-17
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