Why SimoTech

What is it like to work at SimoTech? With a strong collaborative teamwork culture based on respect, trust, and excellence, we play a critical partnering role to our clients’ life-changing supply of products to patients. In return, there is excellent salary, benefits, career progression, educational support and much more.

Managed Services Manager

SimoTech are looking to hire a Managed Services Manager to work from our company HQ. This is an excellent opportunity to step into a senior leadership role, reporting to our Director of Managed Services. The successful candidate will oversee high impact engineering services and projects across leading pharmaceutical client sites. Candidates will ideally have 10+ years’ experience in the Life Sciences sector or similar. This role offers the opportunity to influence service delivery at scale, collaborating cross functionally with internal teams to drive business success. This role is suited to a commercially astute leader with deep automation or validation expertise and a passion for delivering results in complex environments.

Key Responsibilities

Provide oversight for the delivery of services and projects on our client sites, whilst also contributing from a Technical or Project Management perspective to specific key projects.
Oversee full project lifecycle delivery including:
Development and management of scope, schedules, and budgets.
Setting standards to ensure high quality output. o Reporting against agreed performance indicators. o Interface with clients and resolve any concerns raised.
Act as project sponsor for site projects by supporting project teams, making data-driven decisions, and driving continuous improvement through innovation.
Focus on stakeholder management across our client sites, ensuring all clients are engaged and supported at all times.
Build and sustain key relationships with new and existing clients.
Partner proactively with clients to develop innovative solutions to their challenges, shaping projects and services that deliver meaningful and lasting impact.
Mentorship of team members including: o Supporting project managers, engineers and technical leads in project execution. o Provide leadership, guidance and advice in own field of expertise. o Participate in performance evaluation & management process for site-based resources.
Drive high performance across SimoTech projects and services by disseminating lessons learned and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Resource management for projects and services with emphasis on building and maintaining skilled engineering teams.
Collaborate effectively with internal teams, (HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Business Development), to support organisational objectives and drive continued success.
Frequent travel to client sites for client and project meetings.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

Minimum of 10 years project experience in Life Science manufacturing environments.
Technical Qualifications to 3rd level or equivalent in Engineering or Science with a focus towards automation and validation.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading teams or suppliers in automation project delivery.
Ability to demonstrate technical, project and interpersonal skills. • Experience in change management best practices.
Ability to work independently with limited supervision on a variety of technologies and project lifecycles.
In depth knowledge of Process Automation (DCS, PLC and SCADA), Labs and Process systems.
Strong understanding of project finances coupled with a commercial acumen.
Excellent communications with a strong customer focus.
Ability to work autonomously, with minimal oversight, to tight timelines.
Strong attention to detail.
Familiarity with GMP, GAMP, Safety and Environmental Regulatory requirements.

Benefits

What SimoTech Can Offer

Role provides a high degree of autonomy to allow the successful candidate to reach their full potential.
Develop new skills and enhance technical ability by working with innovative technologies in a multi- disciplined environment.
Opportunity to work with large corporate clients

Managed Services Manager

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