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Job Description

Our Enterprise IT-SAP Platform team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new SAP capabilities and technologies. As the Clinical Manufacturing Delivery Lead for our Research & Development Division, you will be responsible for delivering SAP solutions to our Global Clinical Manufacturing user community.

You will participate in interviews with our company's' stakeholders to capture user requirements and process flows, lead and participate in design, and build solutions with business users and SAP team members to further extend capabilities and functionalities on our existing SAP solution in order to satisfy and deliver on the strategic and tactical priorities of our Global Clinical Manufacturing and Supply business.

Hands on SAP experience coupled with extensive business & technical knowledge in SAP Supply Chain Management areas   is highly desired. Areas of expertise should include but not limited to- PP/PI, EHS, Production Execution, Quality and Logistics.

This role also provides close support to the Process Stewards, Product Owners and Business and IT partners with a focus on Automation, Process Innovation, and Improvements or optimizations of existing processes.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serves as team member in the deployment and support of SAP applications across all functional areas supporting Clinical Manufacturing. This includes leading or contributing to the requirements analysis, use cases, functional and technical design, implementation and testing in line with the SDLC methodologies and the Global SAP template.

• Performs feasibility analysis and assessments for new requirements, including understanding implications on the current and future architecture. This includes developing high level proposal with timelines and tasks.

• Is responsible for drafting / reviewing high-level design and functional requirements for integrating enterprise systems with the enterprise ERP environment, external parties (Contract Manufacturing Organizations, 3PLs). Formulates options including assessing their relative merits and risks and works with clients / business analyst to determine the best solution.

• Communicates and partners broadly with stakeholders at multiple levels across the enterprise and maintains awareness of projects or changes to other systems that may impact enterprise systems to ensure there is no degradation of service. Understands priorities and deadlines and anticipates change and escalates accordingly.

• Advises clients / business analysts on technology-related business problems, leveraging IT colleagues as appropriate.

• Acts as subject matter expert on Supply Chain solutions, primarily responsible for gathering functional / business requirements for solution design for manufacturing, warehouse operations, distribution, and   reporting to ensure compliance   as business strategies and requirements continue to evolve.

• Develops subject matter expertise within functional and technical teams in overall SAP solutions for Clinical and provides direction and guidance to drive ongoing configuration, enhancements, and integration effort.

• Service Management: Manage the total scope of IT delivery (Cost, Quality and Time).

• Smooth transition of projects into production.

•  Managing expectations of business user community in a highly FDA regulated environment.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 7 years overall experience in Supply Chain Management and SAP ERP.

• Experience in SAP Supply Chain areas of Production Execution (PE), Warehousing (MH) and Distribution (SD).   

• Experience implementing and integrating MES- PAS-X solutions with SAP.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and business partnering skills.

• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.

• Ability to translate complex technical issue into business terms.

• Ability to drive continuous improvement across team.

• Ability to operate in a cross-functional / matrix environment.

• Acts as a technology mentor to team member.

 Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Supply chain management knowledge focused in core SAP capabilities that manages day-to-day processes of an enterprise (e.g. order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-product) and knowledge of touch points with MES-PAS-X systems will be highly desirable

• Hands on with full Life Cycle Implementations with emphasis as Subject Matter Expert in SAP 

• Deep understanding of Integration through middleware with other systems.

• Experience with Automation and Digital initiatives.

• Superior communication skills and the ability to interact directly with business users.

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Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computers Science, Life Sciences.

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