ITS Unit Lead, Global Platforms - Mechelen, BE or Leiden, NL

Pleased to meet you, we are Galapagos, a dynamic growing Biotech company with offices across Europe and in US, headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium.

We are in the business of changing lives. Focusing on high unmet medical needs, we synergize compelling science, technology, and collaborative approaches to create a deep pipeline of best-in-class small molecules, CAR-T therapies and biologics in oncology and immunology. With capabilities from lab to patient, including Decentralized Manufacturing Unit(s) of CAR-T, we are committed to challenging the status quo and delivering results for our patients, employees and shareholders.

We pioneer for patients. We need thought leaders and rapid thinkers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters. Collaborative innovators and perseverant idealists. We need the best-in-class. In other words, we need you : The ‘make-it-happener’.

We are expanding our US footprint to set-up our decentralized CAR-T network and further build our research capabilities in the US.

We are currently looking for a ITS Unit Lead, Global Platforms - Mechelen, BE or Leiden, NL

Scope of the job

As a senior ITS leader in Galapagos, you are responsible for the strategy, business partnering, delivery, quality and oversight of Galapagos’ global platforms and Shared Services application portfolio.

Your role

• As a member of the ITS Leadership team, you oversee the identification, prioritization, and delivery of work activities for Galapagos’ global platforms and Shared Services application portfolio.
• You coach and develop your team, you provide thought leadership to business partners, and you shape and execute the technology vision and strategy to maximize business value. Members in your team are the interface between ITS and the Galapagos Shared Services functions, they develop technology strategies and roadmaps for the Galapagos’ global platforms, act as a solution guardian, and ensure technology solution delivery in line with business expectations and industry regulations.
• You oversee a team who holds system and platform management responsibility, which includes overall strategy, architecture, capability delivery, operational and life cycle management.
• You strategically define and steer the operating model for your area of responsibility, coordinate effective collaboration between the various ITS teams and platforms, drive improvements in ways-of-working and are actively involved in sourcing strategies and partnerships.
• You hold budgetary responsibility for your unit.
• You take an active role in leading the digitalization agenda for Galapagos by bringing benchmark technology & services.