Senior Manager Strategy

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic PMO: Run programme governance structures, ensuring delivery excellence, de-risking, and alignment to business value.
• Business Case & Value Management: Support and deliver robust business cases for strategic ERP demands, linking technology outcomes to tangible business benefits covering key value streams (OTC, Manufacturing, AT&NPI, Plan, Source etc.)
• Methodology Leadership: Apply leading methodologies such as SAP Activate, Value Lifycycle Manager, and best practices in template management, release management, and process modelling.
• Understand ERP architecture and landscape models, and pharmaceutical supply chain to support the Technology Leader group.
• Understand the portfolio of IT systems that the business uses across supply chain and continuously support strategic decision making through data, technology, and automation.
• Research technology trends and our competitive landscape and provide benchmark and trend analysis to help support Value Enablement.
• Understand the End-to-End digital health strategy and support the creation of a consistent deployment strategy for digital health capabilities.
• Support the Portfolio investment council and the End-to-End funding process.
• Provide written and verbal communications such as status reports, progress reports, creation of dashboards/ documentation for senior stakeholders.
• Strategic Thinking: Support the Technology Leader group on the creation of the strategic vision, helping to align and prioritize Business and IT strategies for the IM Transcend Program.
• Required Knowledge, Skills, and abilities:
• A minimum of a Batchelor’s Degree is required.
• Minimum 6-8 years of relevant experience in supply chain systems strategy multi-site environments, multi-system environments.
• Experience working at the intersection of IT and supply chain operations, with the ability to connect business requirements to systems strategy and implementation decisions
• Knowledge of tools such as JIRA, Power BI, and productivity tools as well as low code/no code applications
• Ability to manage large amounts of data and knowledge of data modeling and visualization. Preferably using advanced analytics, and AI to support dashboarding and executive summary.
• Knowledge of Signavio and LeanIX preferred.
• High learning agility and comfort with ambiguity
• Deep understanding of ERP and SAP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build business cases, evaluate trade-offs, and present systems strategy recommendations to senior leadership.

Preferred Skills:

• Compliance Frameworks, Consulting, Data Science, Data Structures, Developing Others, Digital Fluency, Digital Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Give Feedback, Global Market, Inclusive Leadership, Information Security Management System (ISMS), Information Technology Strategies, Leadership, Negotiation, Product Development, Strategic Thinking, Team Management