Required Qualifications:
- 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.
- Can work independently with minimal supervision, managing & prioritising workload according to business needs.
- Able to challenge respectively and constructively.
- Managing conflicting deadlines and stakeholder expectations
- Impactful, credible with senior stakeholders internally and externally, effectively influencing and delivering results.
- Excellent planning, organisational and problem-solving skills
- 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.
- An excellent communicator who listens to and distils feedback to achieve multi-dimensional agreement.
- Knowledge of Astellas project management policies, procedures, and standards
- High attention to detail and levels of information accuracy
- Able to id entify data and user connectivity and functionality issues and knows when to escalate.
- Able to work comfortably and constructively in a matrix environment,
- Fluent in English
- Team player who enjoys working with people across on different levels of the organization and with colleagues based both locally and in other countries
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-10 years Experience of working in pharma - 3-10 years
- 3-10 years Experience or working in supply chain organisation - 3-10 years
- Evidenced experience of leading a team to deliver shared business objectives
- 3-7 years extensive experience of planning and delivering projects
- Bachelor s degree
Working Environment
Astellas Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.
The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.
Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company s strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.
Purpose and Scope:
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:
- 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.
- Lead specific projects and manage matrix project teams, coaching and developing to increase divisional project/change management capability.
- 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.
- Look for opportunities to streamline reporting and division-wide communication and collaboration to drive value and engagement across the organization.
- Actively identify and pursue optimizations and improvements across the (global) supply chain network.
- Lead strategic 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.
- 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.
- Responsible for the delivery of the assessment and project activities where appropriate (including business case creation and support).
- 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.
- Feed in all suggestions and observations from the project team and key stakeholders regarding the execution of the project.
- 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.
- Make recommendations for additional project team members or a change-over according to the lifecycle of the project, where a need is identified.
- Responsible for delivering key tasks in project activity, as identified by, and agreed with key stakeholders.
- Track any KPIs associated with a project/change and ensure these are included into weekly/monthly reports for leadership review.
- 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.
- 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
