Astellas Pharma

Lead the planning and execution of Supply process development strategic projects. Actively identify and pursue optimizations and improvements across the (global) supply chain network.Responsibilities and Accountabilities:<ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Lead the planning and execution of Supply process development strategic projects through to completion and/or hand-off to BAU, following Astellas processes, methodologies, and templates.</li><li>Lead specific projects and manage matrix project teams, coaching and developing to increase divisional project/change management capability.</li><li>Take a project portfolio view on all projects/changes in the pipeline, liaising with key stakeholders, identifying resource requirement and business impact, and preparing a projects roadmap for the Head of SPD and SCM Leadership team to review.</li><li>Look for opportunities to streamline reporting and division-wide communication and collaboration to drive value and engagement across the organization.</li><li>Actively identify and pursue optimizations and improvements across the (global) supply chain network.</li><li>Leadstrategic network projects, sharing best practice and delivering an industry-leading service to the business, managing local activities, roles, and responsibilities, driving efficient communication between the project team members, and ensuring monitoring and reporting on project progress is delivered in a timely and efficient manner – with a lead focus on compliance and global standardization.</li><li>Monitor all SPD project-related threats and risks, proposing recommendations on early corrective actions to mitigate those threats and planned or unplanned risk and escalating where appropriate.</li><li>Responsible for the delivery of the assessment and project activities where appropriate (including business case creation and support).</li><li>Responsible for the timely flow of information from the project owner/s to the teams regarding the project and ensure all project members are aware of the rules and standards.</li><li>Feed in all suggestions and observations from the project team and key stakeholders regarding the execution of the project.</li><li>Follow the appropriate procedure for project completion and ensure, where the activity is transitioning to business-as-usual, the appropriate hand-over and all documentation are completed.</li><li>Make recommendations for additional project team members or a change-over according to the lifecycle of the project, where a need is identified.</li><li>Responsible for delivering key tasks in project activity, as identified by, and agreed with key stakeholders.</li><li>Track any KPIs associated with a project/change and ensure these are included into weekly/monthly reports for leadership review.</li><li>Capture actions identified throughout the lifecycle of the project and ensure these are completed in a timely manner, escalating to the steering committee where there is a concern around delivery.</li><li>SCM lead in new product launch projects: Manage the planning, design and approval of the product flow and lead the set-up of the supply chain infrastructure. Co-ordinate other Supply chain functions to ensure launch activities are met. Represent Supply Chain in product related projects</li></ul>Required Qualifications:<ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>A sound understanding of industry and regulatory requirements for Pharma sector (e.g. cGMP, Serialization) Adept at project administration, co-ordination and management including business case preparation and presentation.</li><li>Can work independently with minimal supervision, managing & prioritising workload according to business needs.</li><li>Able to challenge respectively and constructively.</li><li>Managing conflicting deadlines and stakeholder expectations</li><li>Impactful, credible with senior stakeholders internally and externally, effectively influencing and delivering results.</li><li>Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving skills</li><li>Proficient user of MS Office and can quickly learn how to use a wider range of bespoke and standard new platforms and systems, like SAP, Business process mapping and workflow systems.</li><li>An excellent communicator who listens to and distils feedback to achieve multi-dimensional agreement.</li><li>Knowledge of Astellas project management policies, procedures, and standards</li><li>High attention to detail and levels of information accuracy</li><li>Able to identify data and user connectivity and functionality issues and knows when to escalate.</li><li>Able to work comfortably and constructively in a matrix environment,</li><li>Fluent in English</li><li>Team player who enjoys working with people across on different levels of the organizationand with colleagues based both locally and in other countries </li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li style="text-align: justify;">3-10 years Experience of working in pharma - 3-10 years</li><li style="text-align: justify;">3-10 years Experience or working in supply chain organisation - 3-10 years</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Evidenced experience of leading a team to deliver shared business objectives</li><li style="text-align: justify;">3-7 years extensive experience of planning and delivering projects</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Bachelor’s degree</li></ul>

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