EMEA MES Lead: IT Leadership for Manufacturing Excellence

Vantive; Castlebar; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Private medical insurance

Company pension

Annual bonus

Job summary

Vantive seeks a Manager, IT – MES EMEA Leader to oversee MES across the region, ensuring reliable, compliant, and scalable solutions that align with manufacturing priorities. You will lead a geographically dispersed team and own the regional MES roadmap and key technology initiatives.

Working with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Automation and IT, you will translate business needs into technology, manage vendor relationships, drive standardisation and lifecycle activities while upholding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Automation or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years' IT experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience leading and developing teams, ideally across multiple locations.
• Experience delivering medium-to-large manufacturing IT projects or programmes.
• Strong knowledge of MES, manufacturing processes, system integrations and application lifecycle management.
• Experience with Electronic Batch Record and/or MES solutions; Siemens Opcenter, Siemens eBR or equivalent platforms would be an advantage.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management and vendor-management skills.
• Excellent communication, influencing, decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience within pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology or another regulated manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Experience with validated/GxP environments, Computer System Validation and data integrity requirements would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the EMEA MES team, building capability, accountability and a high-performing culture.
• Lead delivery of the EMEA MES roadmap, aligned with global IT and manufacturing strategies.
• Ensure MES solutions across EMEA manufacturing sites are stable, reliable, compliant and sustainable.
• Oversee MES implementations, upgrades, enhancements and lifecycle activities.
• Lead technical projects and programmes, managing scope, resources, milestones, risks and delivery.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Automation, Site Leadership and IT to translate business needs into technology solutions.
• Manage relationships with technology vendors, system integrators and service providers.
• Drive standardisation, continuous improvement and effective transition of new solutions into operational support.
• Ensure adherence to relevant IT, cybersecurity, validation, data integrity, quality and governance requirements.

Skills

MES leadership

Team leadership

Project management

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Communication

GxP / validated environments

Education

BSc in IT/Engineering

Tools

Siemens Opcenter

Siemens eBR

Job description

Vantive seeks a Manager, IT – MES EMEA Leader to oversee MES across the region, ensuring reliable, compliant, and scalable solutions that align with manufacturing priorities. You will lead a geographically dispersed team and own the regional MES roadmap and key technology initiatives.

Working with Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Automation and IT, you will translate business needs into technology, manage vendor relationships, drive standardisation and lifecycle activities while upholding