Industrial Network Capacity Planning Specialty Care and Business Process Owner

Industrial Network Capacity Planning Specialty Care and Business Process Owner

Requirements

• MSc/PhD level education in Supply Chain, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biology or Engineering
• Broad experience with biomolecular pharmaceutical entities (e.g. Monoclonal Antibodies or Antibody-Derivatives, Gene Therapy, Peptides, Fusion-Proteins, Vaccines) and Sterile Filling
• 10+ years of experience in Business Operations (i.e. Supply Chain) with a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical environment
• 3+ years of experience in Business Process Excellence
• Proven leadership and management skills in matrix environments
• Track record of change management and improvements
• Digital experience and familiarity with planning tools and systems (fast learner of new tools)

Responsibilities

• Manages strategic demand plan (commercial and non-commercial) for a portfolio of brands and launches (time horizon 3+ years)
• Partners with Commercial/IFLs, GBU and Supply Chain on annual Strat Plan to understand and consolidate strategic demand plan and assumptions, including seamless integration of the data between the IBP and the Strategic Horizon
• Collaborates with Commercial and Global Supply Chain on commercial demand updates and / or new scenario for assigned product portfolio, ensuring demand and capacity plans are updated and communicated to impacted teams (eg. Product Teams)
• Lead capacity modeling and scenario planning exercises to enable strategic and operational decision making for all platforms current and future portfolio and optimize network facilities long term allocations. Contribute to the financial impact assessment.
• Provides recommendations for network capacity balancing in the mid to long-term
• Provides recommendations of shift patterns, OEE improvement, strategic inventories, investments or any other industrial need to optimize network capacity
• Establish the long-range capacity and resource utilization plan recommendations, working closely with sites and cluster heads
• Focal point for all questions and changes related to Long-Term Capacity modeling
• Provides supply plan scenario input to Strategic capacity decisions, through the operational and long-range plan horizons
• Maintains Industrial Network Long Term Industrial Capacity Plans together with GBU StratPlan Leaders, GBU Network Strategy SPOC & GBU IFLs
• Together with the Techno Platform Strategy Owners (Global or GBU) contributes to investment decision recommendations.
• Supports the elaboration and alignment with the various functions and get endorsed the long term (3-10 years) Industrial Network strategy for the products across platforms.
• Lead the design of all processes and ways of working related to Network Capacity Planning mid to long-term (time horizon 3+ years) for DS, DP, and FP
• Define the relevant governance to support the successful completion of the processes
• Design the relevant KPIs for each process and analytics needed (e.g. process efficiency improvements, alignment across stakeholders, change management success, Data quality improvements, system adoption rates, etc..)
• Define and own the capacity data requirements and be part of the data governance model (drive data quality in alignment with all stakeholders)
• Define system(s) requirements with associated data and rules
• Ensure alignment of the LTIP digital solution with the Network Capacity Planning processes
• Ensure the smooth integration of capacity data between the long-term planning horizon and the tactical horizon (e.g., IBP)
• Responsible for the documentation related to Network Capacity Planning processes and ways of working (incl. Playbook)
• Responsible for the periodic communication (e.g. specific network and global platform capacity overviews)
• Drive the implementation of a core model based on the standardization of the Network Capacity Planning processes
• Ensure process execution is harmonized and aligned across the organization. Monitor E2E process KPIs through associated reporting. Partner with stakeholders and senior management to identify processes, system, performance indicators, or data concerns and define mitigation actions
• Responsible for innovation and continuous improvement of process performance and ways of working related to Network Capacity

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Project Management and Communication skills
• Pragmatic, efficient, innovative
• Strives for continuous improvement; “can do differently” attitude
• Contributes to an environment of strong team spirit and transparency
• Ability to engage others and to influence at all levels and across functions
• Ability to drive alignment within groups with different perspectives, cultures, technical competencies, and organizational levels
• Ability to prioritize and facilitate decision-making
• Active and visible change agent, promoting experimentation and learning, flexible and open mindset to new opportunities
• Takes accountability for actions, drives results
• Superior problem-solving skills; ability to anticipate issues and propose solutions
• Passion for collaboration and customer service mentality