As part of the Make-or-Buy team, the Senior Manager of Product Life Cycle Strategy is responsible for the execution of global life cycle management strategy at STADA, maximizing manufacturing network performance, with focus on COGS leadership, supply reliability, and high-quality products.
He / she defines criteria, processes, and governance to ensure the timely delivery of Life Cycle Management initiatives for legacy products under STADA product portfolio. He / she identifies gaps in the current processes via implementation of control systems and suggests actions via established RACI matrix.
Key Responsibilities:
* Pro-activity: Embrace the position from a holistic perspective and need for continuous improvement initiatives.
* Relentless willingness to learn: The complex pharma industry requires working with the best and learning from them. Requires an out of the box thinking mode.
* Resilience: Complex environments and relatively short timelines may elevate the level of stress, which needs to be managed in a healthy way.
* Structured thinking and pragmatism: Analysis and proposals need to be executed and presented with limited information and time. Trade-offs will be continuously required, executed, and demonstrated as part of the daily tasks.
* Communication skills: Life cycle initiatives are to be presented to upper management; training of processes to low-mid management. Versatility and capacity to adapt communication style to the audience is required.
* Emotional intelligence: Despite the aim of supporting decisions with data, the capability to read the audience is seen as a plus. Working with different stakeholders, at multi-level functions and with conflicting priorities requires capacity to influence, gather support, and superior emotional intelligence skills.
* Fluent in English; other languages desirable.
Professional Requirements:
* Bachelor’s degree in business economics, industrial engineering, industrial management, or similar area. Master’s degree seen as a plus.
* More than 5 years of professional experience in the Pharma industry, in the areas of CMO management, direct procurement, portfolio life cycle management, business development.
* Knowledge of the Pharmaceutical Value chain: COGS drivers, production costs.
* Brief exposure and knowledge of manufacturing processes; understanding of EU regulatory rules and requirements, non-EU requirements is a plus.
* Experience in project management activities, with demonstrated track record and results.
* Expert user of SAP; Power BI and Tableau seen as a plus.
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