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About the job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as SMS Global Transformation Leader is to lead specific performance initiatives at site by selecting the most appropriate deployment modality (e.g., booster, SMS 2.0, digital) and designing/executing accordingly. He/she acts as a catalyst of change, supporting sites in “making improvement happen”, and ultimately delivering measurable and lasting performance impact. In that way, the main responsibility is to lead SMS2.0 and booster transformations in industrial network sites of all three Manufacturing and Supply GBUs. Orchestrate the deployments and drive the associated performance transformations to maximize impact on performance.

Act as a booster transformation leader and as a SMS2.0 transformation leader for a defined scope of site(s) and ecosystem(s):

• Ensuring the booster related change story is aligned with site’s CBNs and well-communicated to all levels of the organization

• Leading the diagnostic, design, and implementation of boosters by anticipating risks and opportunities, addressing specific performance breakthroughs (e.g., resources, planning, governance, routines, capacity, value analysis, productivity, yield, agility) and coaching local team (e.g. Change Leaders) to ensure sustainability, value capture and scalability

• Monitoring progress vs plan/impact on performance, removing roadblocks and challenging the local transformation team, to make sure the full potential is achieved

• Guiding sites team in the deployment of ecosystems/pillars within SMS 2.0, providing input to the design, refining efforts bases on feedback, ensuring adherence to standard methodology, and transferring capabilities to local teams by trainings

• Addressing specific business needs of the sites, implementing them in practice and ensuring the post-implementation codification

• Supporting the sites to define which digital solutions can be deployed to address the site’s business needs by proposing and developing new approaches for transformation, but also post deployment, to ensure adoption, value realization and continuous improvement by incorporating the digital tool usage into the new business routines

• Ensuring continuous improvement and optimization of standards/playbooks and digital applications by proving detailed action plan but also input in his/her areas of expertise to archetype/ecosystems and digital product owners

• Coaching and mentoring by reinforcing change management capabilities at site

About you

Education and experience:

• Master’s degree (Engineering/Pharmaceutical studies) or similar

• A significative experience in Industrial Operations environment and in Change management methodologies with a good exposure to digital/Factory 4.0 solutions in place/in use and to Manufacturing System

Soft skills:

• Strong leadership: ability to drive initiatives and decision making, to influence in matrix organization, to shape a vision and to disrupt the status quo with innovation and with pragmatism, Capacity to inspire trust and to create powerful relationships

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• People management: ability to develop people, coach, provide structured feedback

• High level of autonomy in execution: capacity to adapt with agility, to take calculated risks and to anticipate potential issues

Technical skills:

• Knowledge of the Lean methodology and a good functional knowledge on industrial business processes

• Knowledge of basic financial analysis and management accounting

Languages:

• English spoken and written fluent

• French is a plus

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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