Head Of It Infrastructure

Werfen is a family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. With the headquarter in Barcelona, it operates directly in 30 countries, more than 100 territories through distributors, and with a workforce of 7000 employees. Werfen is a specialized diagnostics company committed to providing innovative solutions to hostipals and laboratories, powering patient care around the world.

The Head of Global IT Infrastructure Foundation is a role reporting to the Director of Global IT Infrastructure and Support in the IT division. He / She is responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of all internal and cloud IT infrastructure services used to support business process across the enterprise. In this role, he / she will drive effective delivery of IT services with people, technology, providers / contractors and processes. Responsible for the global effectiveness and efficiency of all infrastructure foundation which include datacenter & cloud, compute, storage, backup & restore, platforms, network services, SAP Basis and the associated security to ensure high levels of functionality, performance, and business alignment.

Develop strategy and roadmaps, ensure its integration and implementation with the overall IT and enterprise strategic plans.

Responsible for infrastructure reliability, availability, performance, compliance, and IT disaster recovery.

In alignment with the architecture function, develop and implement global standards, procedures, architectural design, configuration and that they are fully documented and maintained.

Develop and control the annual Opex and Capex budgets for Infrastructure Foundation to achieve the annual set targets.

Oversee the purchasing process together with stakeholders ensuring the selection through RFP (if required), contract negotiation and signature of technology and services.

Assess and describe capabilities needs, select, recruit and retain talents based on Infrastructure Foundations and IT division’s strategy and objectives.

Set yearly performance objectives, conduct performance and salary reviews.

• Responsible for the delivery of IT Infrastructure services to deliver services in a cost-effective manner and according to agreed service levels;

ensure proper alerting,monitoring and automation for the services.

Produce timely and relevant status reports including but not limited to time, quality and budget dashboard.Produce Quarterly Review reports for senior management.

Networking / Key relationships

Value driven mindset embedding security, standardization, user experience and continuous improvement disciplines.

Building Talent Planning and supporting the development of individuals’ knowledge, skills, and abilities so that they can fulfill current or future job responsibilities more effectively.

Responsibility for the team´s compliance in terms of training, and fulfilment of their tasks and objectives as well as onboarding of new employees and development of the existing team.