IT Business Partner (m/f), Loiret

Merck - avec plus de 300 ans de progrès et plus de 38000 employés dans le monde, se positionne en leader sur le marché Pharmaceutique, Chimique, et des Sciences de la vie. Avec passion, engagement et innovation, nous poursuivons un objectif commun : améliorer la qualité de vie. C'est pourquoi nous avons besoin de vous!

Your role

• You will serve as the business relationship link between business units and IT within our manufacturing team. You will act as the key liaison across all functional areas, including business units, the information technology department, and outside vendors.
• You will proactively share knowledge of technology risks and opportunities to build competitive advantage and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business units. You partner with business leadership and other key stakeholders to define opportunities and identify and prioritize projects based on predefined criteria.
• In this key role, you will manage Business demands including prioritization, managing the local IT & Digital Project Portfolio, managing IT & Digital roadmaps, heatmaps and IT Strategy.
• You will perform as a business subject matter expert and technology advisor, specifying business requirements incl. prioritization and support for the development of business cases. You will be representing IT & Digital in promoting IT & Digital services & capabilities. You will handle smaller projects & studies; leading Business changes for IT-related initiatives. You will lead business change management for IT related initiatives.
• You will perform financial planning and budgeting for the area of responsibility as well as forecasting the capacity of required resources to deliver on a portfolio as part of the planning process. Regularly, you will perform Service Review with business and escalation instances.
• In this role, you will manage of medium to large projects or programs according to our internal governance and PMO guidelines. This includes but not limited to manage of technical implementation (i.e development, testing, etc.) or handover to operations & support. You will manage resource planning and staffing. You will ensure security & quality of delivered solutions.

Who you are

• Master's degree in IT or related discipline (including data science, data engineering, MIS, analytics).
• In depth knowledge and curiosity of new technologies and digital trends.
• Fluent in written and verbal communication in English and French
• 8+ years of experience in a large industry working on IT Industry and a demonstrable experience as an IT Business Partner.
• At least 4 years on analytics and digitalization projects. Such as big data and/or with cloud data warehousing
• Proven record of leading cross-functional & multi-sites projects in Manufacturing working in a sophisticated project environment, ideally with an Agile and Scrum methodology
• Proven organizational, prioritization, and value driven mindset skills.
• Able to inspire and influence stakeholders in a matrix organization with diverse & different cultures across the globe.
• Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Result Oriented
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Strong communication skills and management of stakeholders
• Knowledge of project management (PMP, ITIL) and agile methodology (Scrum)