At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!
As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.
At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.
Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!
Purpose:
As a leading global animal health company, Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) delivers innovative products and services to improve the health of pets and farm animals around the world because we believe making animals' lives better, makes life better. Since 1954, we have provided solutions that support veterinarians, farmers and pet owners to advance our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life. Elanco's promise to employees: Together, we foster an inclusive culture where everyone can make a difference, encouraging ownership, growth and well-being.
Elanco Knowledge Solutions (EKS) is dedicated to empowering our global customers by transforming raw data into valuable information and insightful knowledge with digital solutions. EKS’s focus spans across a diverse spectrum of food animal sectors namely Beef, Dairy, Poultry, Protein Processing, and Swine.
The IT Associate Manager will be responsible for consulting, development, implementation and maintenance of digital products, tools and technologies to support these initiatives.
Role & Responsibilities
- Develop a clear understanding of the existing infrastructure and application environments and provide support directly or through third-party partners
- Willing to be hands-on with project deliverables and able to demonstrate a pattern of success in using analytic methods to solve business problems.
- Work closely with development partners and lead technical aspects of projects related to digital product development, infrastructure environment, devices/equipments, security/validation, 3rd party software tools
- Serve as point of contact for team members for general technical questions and maintain a line of site into enterprise teams to support the rollout of corporate IT initiatives.
- Possess awareness and knowledge of regulatory, legal or quality requirements impacting the business areas, and ensures solution requirements comply.
- Ability to clearly communicate with and persuasively present technical and non-technical information to a wide variety of audiences.
- Develop and evolve new or existing processes, procedures to create possible alternative, agile, efficient solutions to moderately complex problems as well optimizing the costs
- Work collaboratively and use sound judgment in developing robust solutions while seeking guidance on complex problems.
- Bring forward ideas and opportunities to improve technical viability and modernization of all EKS related tools.
Basic Qualifications (Must have)
- Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Knowledge of relational database concepts, information integration, virtualization, and application interfaces
- Experience in Cloud computing on Azure and/or GCP
- Experience in the creation data pipelines of queries and reports using SQL and/or reporting tools, i.e PowerBI, DataBricks
- IT infrastructure experience/knowledge both legacy (server based) and cloud.
- ITSM and/or ITIL knowledge
- Experience in both waterfall and agile delivery.
- Demonstrated learning agility and desire to continue to acquire expertise in area of focus.
- Flexibility and ability to manage multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment.
IT Experience Minimum 4 – 7
Good to Have Skills:
- Understanding or interest of the animal health industry.
- Past experience with IoT projects.
- Experience with mobile platforms (iOS, Android) and advanced Excel capabilities
- Proven ability to work independently.
- Proven ability to work in a team-oriented environment and work collaboratively in a problem-solving environment.
- Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational and multi-tasking.
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status
