Director, Senior Product Owner

Description

The company is hiring a Director, Senior Product Owner for its Quality IT team in Södertälje, Sweden. You will apply your IT skills and biopharma background to help change how life-changing medicines are developed and delivered.

The Operations IT group is a global IT function serving the Global Operations organisation. It works with business areas including pharmaceutical technology development, manufacturing and global engineering, Quality, sustainability, supply chain, logistics, and global external sourcing and procurement. Operations hubs are in the UK, Sweden, the US and China, and global technology centres are in India and Mexico.

The work affects patients directly. The team helps the business perform at its best by combining scientific research with digital platforms and data, with a focus on data, analytics, AI and machine learning.

The environment is demanding and changes often. Learning opportunities include hackathons and reshaping how colleagues work.

Responsibilities

• Shape and own the IT and digital strategy for the function, including investment planning and delivery.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior Quality leaders and global business process owners, including OSLT-1 or similar, and join the functional leadership team where relevant.
• Focus on Global Quality Control and key Quality processes, starting with Quality Control and laboratory processes and systems, though the portfolio focus may shift. Cover all supporting technology, both foundational and transformational.
• Own the global capability roadmap, sequencing, prioritisation and backlogs, aiming for maximum competitive advantage.
• Lead the IT side of corporate quality assurance (PQS, QMS) and laboratory systems such as LIMS, LES, CDS, EM and SDMS.
• Make sure IT services meet agreed performance outcomes, and drive continuous improvement with the relevant IT teams.
• Improve IT satisfaction, return on investment and total cost of ownership for the function.
• Act as the main contact for the function on significant service issues, incidents and problems.
• Work with the business to build clear business cases tied to business and IT outcomes.
• Set portfolio priorities, balancing business needs with IT and operations strategy and governance.
• Lead ideation, innovation and MVPs, including use cases with the Data, Analytics and AI team.
• Set priorities for platform and product feature backlogs with scaled delivery teams and external partners.
• Gather information from relevant sources and analyse trends to support decisions, drawing on deep domain knowledge.
• Communicate with and advise stakeholders to move strategy and projects forward.
• Lead a cross-functional matrix team, setting direction and clearing obstacles.
• Build relationships with the company's IT business technology groups, centres for enablement and external partners to deliver solutions that meet business goals.
• Lead planning, coordination and delivery of projects using both traditional and agile methods.
• Own delivery of the Quality IT portfolio, including resolving issues and escalations and mitigating risk.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in biopharma, with solid knowledge of quality assurance, quality control and laboratory systems.
• Strong record of building trust with IT and business stakeholders and agreeing shared goals.
• Strong experience delivering IT solutions to global functions that support GxP processes.
• Experience identifying and rolling out innovative technology solutions.
• Proven record of delivering results.
• Experience building high-value business cases and securing significant investment.
• Experience leading teams with motivating, achievement-focused leadership.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers, with strong networking and consulting skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong influencing, networking and teamwork skills.
• Good awareness of developments in the IT market.
• Skilled at building relationships and influencing people to reach objectives.
• Proficient in planning, change management and problem solving, including highly complex, strategic issues.
• Able to respond to business needs within an IT setting.
• Able to manage negotiations, expectations and solutions across complex groups.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Conditions

Based in Södertälje, Sweden. This role is not available for remote work.

Work from the office at least three days per week on average.

Travel or commuting support is not available for this role.

The role was posted on 29 October 2026 and applications close on 15 November 2026.

The company welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and offers reasonable adjustments during the process.