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The Life Cycle Manager sets up and leads local cross-functional teams, to ensure optimal realization of site strategies (considering Lean methodology, sourcing strategies, complexity management) and ensure site objectives can be achieved during ongoing life-cycle activities regarding Customer service level, COGS, Inventory, Compliance.
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Set up and lead local cross-functional project teams, to ensure time to market / implementation of all on-going life-cycle activities.
- Drive the Evaluation and support the definition of the project scope.
- Support preparation of business cases incl. financial evaluation (ROI, NPV), provide reports/updates, to facilitate Management decision-making on life cycle activities.
- Define and establish the submission and implementation strategy with all stakeholders in alignment with the site strategy.
- Define and establish the master data strategy together with MDG to ensure an early master data modelling for all Life Cycle Projects.
- Ensure information flows to CPO’s and sites together with the responsible function, e.g. Customer Service Coordinator, to reflect baseline planning and updates to plans in SAP.
- Define & manage project milestones and ensure project implemented follow agreed timelines.
- Leads the implementation of life cycle projects, to ensure compliant drug supplies, on time and in right quality.
- Identify potential risks and elaborate contingency plans as appropriate, communicate project progress and deviations.
- Align inventory levels for launch products with platform and site SCM.
- Align bridging-/contingency- stocks for change projects, transfers, pruning and divestment projects with responsible brand lead and SNP.
- Provide teams with appropriate Site / Platform support or coordination whenever required. And ensure escalation pathway is followed for projects with problem status.
- Provide SCM input to Supply Agreements and Trading Service procedures check for feasibility and completeness if applicable.
- Consolidate and ensure project assessment to IBP Product / Project Review meeting.
- Ensure compliance with GMP and regulatory requirements (including record management) and continuous improvement of quality relevant processes within area of responsibility.
- Carry out ad hoc tasks which are necessary to achieve the business objectives of site. e.g. material risk assessment, bottleneck management etc.
Key performance indicators:
- Project schedule attainment
- Life Cycle Milestone Adherence (LCMA)
- Project Milestone Adherence (PMA)
- Quality / Accuracy / Right First Time
- Customer Service Level: e.g. no Supply disruption, no Stock-out, no Launch delay
- Inventory (MoC): regarding ongoing LC-projects: proper managing of bridging stocks, handling of DS- variant changes
- COGS, minimize write-offs, optimize value chain, priority management
- Regulatory Compliance no compliance issue / recall due to LC-projects
- Project implementation according to agreed timelines and within agreed budget
Minimum Requirements:
Education & Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in science (chemistry, biology, pharmacy or chemical engineering) or a related field.
Work Experience:
- More than 8 years work experience in pharmaceutical industry. Minimum 3 years of product transfer/launch project management experience.
- Knowledge of semi-solid and aseptic process experience is preferred.
- Good understanding of pharmaceutical industry supply chain processes and Lean philosophy.
- Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing business environment.
Skills:
- Cross-Cultural Communication: Excellent communication skills in both Mandarin and English to effectively collaborate with global teams.
- Strong collaborator with ability to create and maintain effective working relationships and willing to challenge behaviors and actions.
- Project management skills and technology knowledge.
- Strong positive “can-do” mind set and team spirit.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot design and production challenges and find creative solutions
Languages :
- Fluent in English (mandatory) and local language.
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