Director, IT SAP Product Lifecycle and Quality
$226,185–$292,710 year
On-siteFoster City, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end Regulatory-to-Release capability strategy across PLM, Quality Management, Product Release, and related digital platforms. Serve as the senior IT partner for Product Development, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, Clinical, Supply Chain, and Kite, aligning technology priorities to business outcomes. Set the multi-year roadmap and investment priorities for SAP PLM, SAP QM, Batch Release, and related quality capabilities. Lead execution across PLM, QM, Batch Release, and related digital initiatives, ensuring delivery is predictable, compliant, and business-aligned. Oversee cross-functional teams, partners, and vendors to resolve issues, manage dependencies, and drive integrated planning from design through support. Govern backlog priorities, release plans, testing, validation, deployment readiness, and hypercare execution. Establish enterprise standards and design principles that promote compliant, scalable, and standardized solutions. Drive measurable outcomes in compliance, product quality, release cycle time, adoption, stability, and business value realization.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Life Sciences, Supply Chain, or related field
- 15+ years of SAP, ERP, digital platform, product management, solution architecture, or enterprise delivery experience in life sciences or regulated manufacturing
- Deep experience with SAP PLM, SAP QM, SAP S/4HANA, and regulated product lifecycle, quality, and release processes
- Strong knowledge of PLM and quality capabilities, including specifications, recipes, BOMs, change management, inspection, batch management, release, genealogy, and related integrations
- Solid understanding of GxP, GMP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, validation, data integrity, audit readiness, and regulated delivery practices
- Proven ability to lead ERP portfolios across strategy, roadmap, investment planning, delivery, sustainment, compliance, and value realization
- Demonstrated leadership of global matrix teams, vendors, system integrators, AMS partners, business stakeholders, and technical teams
- Strong business partnership, executive communication, and governance skills with the ability to simplify complex SAP, quality, regulatory, and compliance topics
- Track record of driving standardization, reducing technical debt, improving operational resilience, and delivering measurable business outcomes
- Ability to present roadmap, investment, delivery, sustainment, and value realization recommendations to senior leadership
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