vp/avp - Digital Enterprise & Automation (DEA)

DEA Job Descriptions

Digital Enterprise & Automation (DEA)

Grade: Vice President | Reports to (TBD): Managing Director / Executive Director

Direct reports: GM Level (GM/DGM/AGM) for IT, Automation and AI/ML; Senior Manager- BMS/IoT, Business Process Mapping & Analytics

Role purpose

Own the strategy, execution, governance, and performance of BBIL group's converged digital and automation estate, preserving the GxP rigor, segregation of duties, and patient-safety assurance a vaccine manufacturer requires.

Core competencies (Includes strategy & governance)

• IT infrastructure
• Enterprise applications
• Automation / OT integration
• Building monitoring systems & IoT
• Business process mapping & analytics
• AI/ML strategy & governance
• GxP/regulatory compliance & audit readiness
• People leadership & stakeholder management

Key responsibilities

• Own DEA's strategy, roadmap, and budget [PR1] across the five verticals, prioritizing by value delivery to the enterprise, digitalization impact, regulatory necessity, and ROI
• Drive Harmonization Council: standardize vendors and technology stacks to build specialist depth and cross-facility interoperability
• Own converged IT/OT cybersecurity governance- micro-segmentation, RTO/RPO, east-west and north-south risk without flattening IT and OT networks into one.
• Ensure GxP risk classification is co-evaluated with Quality and the User Department and built into every URS/DQ; protect/ preserve the independent reporting line of the consolidated Quality & User oversight group
• Lead, develop multi-level resources under the five vertical heads; mitigate key-person risk in a specialist-based model
• Represent DEA at regulatory inspections with audit-read strategies, checks and balances in controls, review and approval authorities including RACI, and independence documentation .
• Sponsor i.DEA Labs and report digital/cyber/OT risk to the Top Management on a defined cadence

Qualifications

• 20+ years in IT and/or automation leadership, including 10+ years in regulated manufacturing (pharma/biologics/vaccines preferred)
• Experience leading both enterprise IT and industrial automation/OT, or direct accountability for both
• Working knowledge of 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, GAMP 5, WHO TRS, ICH, and CDSCO Schedule M
• Experience with IT/OT cybersecurity architecture and multi-site vendor/technology standardization

Key relationships

Quality & Regulatory (independent oversight), Manufacturing/Engineering, Finance, the five vertical heads/ leads, automation/IT vendors, and Top Management.