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Global Sales and Operations Planning Lead Pharmaceuticals

October 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Global Sales and Operations Planning Lead Pharmaceuticals

Global S&OP Lead

Sales and Operations Planning, Pharmaceuticals

Full time, permanent position based in Basildon.

Attractive salary and benefits.

Pharmanovia are looking for a Global S&OP Lead to join their Supply Chain team.

Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain you will lead and manage our sales and operations planning process to ensure alignment of functions and senior management to delivery of business goals for medium to long term. You will provide leadership and strategic direction for management of planning activities, business planning processes, and data/systems. This includes identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives that support business goals & objectives in the short-term & long term. You will also build and maintain communication channels between the Commercial, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Quality, Projects and Finance units in terms of managing supply/demand execution dynamics, understanding demand requirements, and ensuring plans are in place to meet service level performance requirements.

About Pharmanovia

Pharmanovia is a fast-growing pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across 140+ markets. Our team of over 200 employees are based globally across offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, U.A.E., India, Australia, Singapore, Italy, South Korea and many more.

Since we first opened our doors in 2013, we have focused on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers and healthcare providers across the globe.

Our purpose is to reinvigorate and innovate iconic medicines for the benefit of patient health globally. We aspire to be an agile and imaginative specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies. Our Therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Women's Health & Endocrinology, Neurology & Pain and Gastroenterology and Oncology.

Key responsibilities:

  • Implementation of an effective S&OP process with cross-functional participation to facilitate discussion and decision-making focused on achieving business goals and objectives. This includes highlighting business-critical issues to Senior Leadership team, development/maintenance of Supply Chain dashboards, and improvement plans where necessary.
  • Resolving complex supply situations by partnering with internal and external partners: Demand Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, Marketing, Procurement, Finance, Customer Order Management, and Distribution. Communicate supply risks and recovery actions to support customer service.
  • Developing and maintaining a commercial supply chain dashboard to monitor the key performance indicators for the business and identify appropriate actions to achieve targeted results.
  • Ensuring quality and completeness of demand signal and align with regional to global level leads to ensure the successful lifecycle maintenance of the product.
  • Leading the site S&OP cycle including running of pre S&OP and monthly S&OP meetings.
  • Oversight of all on site medium to long term planning systems (not ownership of operational teams).
  • Ensuring data generated by functions and programmes is suitable for Pharmanovia's S&OP.
  • Coaching, mentoring and initiation of improvement projects, where required.
  • Ensuring identification, monitoring and reporting of assumptions, risks and opportunities relating to the medium and long term business goals. Escalate to Head of Supply Chain as appropriate.
  • Holding appropriate personnel, including operational, tactical & strategic leadership, to account for agreed actions for mitigation of risk or realisation of opportunities as identified via S&OP. Escalate to Heads of departments as appropriate.
  • Ensuring all data generated via S&OP is accurate and timely for monthly, quarterly & yearly reporting.
  • Continuous interaction with operational heads of the business and provide appropriate data to support decision making or escalate to the line manager as appropriate.

What we are looking for:

  • BSc./BA Business in a relevant field. MBA or MCIPS preferred.
  • Significant knowledge of the working of contract manufacturing, procurement, supply chain, distribution and commercialisation globally, both under consignment and export models.
  • Extensive planning experience ideally gained within the Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Industry.
  • A deep understanding of S&OP current best practice.
  • Strong managerial and leadership skills.
  • Proven strategic influencing skills.
  • Experience in business analytics systems and tools such as Power BI as well as strong user skills in Microsoft Office, and other software ideally SAP IBP, Kinaxis.
  • Proven commercial sense combined with storytelling abilities to easily communicate this to other teams.
  • Entrepreneurial and self-motivated, with true passion for demand planning and forecasting, coupled with a strong commercial acumen.

Reference ID: Pharmanovia

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

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