M&S-Manager of Site OPEX-Beijing

Job title: Manager of Site OPEX

• Location: Beijing Site

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 Sr Manager of Site OpEx within our M&S China-BEI Site, will be to making best class medicines with excellent strategies and tools and delivering them to our patients.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities

Please indicate here the main job responsibilities

Developing, owning, and maintaining the Site Performance Roadmap by:

•      Leading the Strategy Cascading process by working closely with internal (i.e., SLT) and external (i.e., Global Functions) stakeholders, defining site CBN’s

•      Drive internal/external benchmarking & analyses to identify performance gaps/opportunities vs. best in class, socializing it internally and externally with key stakeholders

•      Leading the performance piece during Strat Plan and Budget, defining performance ambition (aligned with CBN’s and GBU objectives), cascaded into financial/operational targets across all performance dimension (e.g., +QDCI, scorecard)    

•      Developing a prioritized portfolio of initiatives (i.e., performance + modernization) to deliver site ambition, and related: impact, resourcing and timelines

Delivering performance ambition by leading the execution of the Site Performance Roadmap through:

•      Focused transformation initiatives (e.g., performance boosters), when fast-paced performance breakthroughs are required

•      Standardization through SMS 2.0 ecosystem deployments enabling continuous improvement (incl.  execution support, CI standard deployment, problem solving, OpEx method, etc.)

•      Partnership with Smart Factory to promote adoption (in place, in use) of Smart Factory solutions and value capture in form of performance gains

•      Supplier Excellence: Own the Material & Supplier improvement initiatives (i.e., Supplier Excellence) & business interface of the procurement on site

Leading site performance governance by:

•      Manage operational KPI management (i.e., +QDCI) including cascaded reviews from shopfloor to SLT to track performance evolution vs. ambition

•      Drive financial impact of performance actions (e.g., 3P, Sievo) ensuring value is maximized and captured in alignment with Finance, Procurement, Operations

•      Monitor overall performance trajectory vs. ambition, spot early on (risk of) deviations and decide appropriate corrective actions 

•      Represent the site in above site performance reviews and forums (e.g., L4-L5)

Leading Site SMS team and developing OpEx & Digital capabilities & performance culture:

•      Implement Site OpEx & Smart Factory team in alignment with standard organization

•      Drive OpEx training in alignment with the learning administrator

•      Develop strong relationships with the global OpEx community and the Global Functions (e.g., Quality, Engineering, etc) for best practices sharing

•      Drive appropriate communication at all levels to promote performance mindset & behaviour

About you

List here ideally the must-haves criteria to be successful on the role.

• Experience: At least five years pharmaceutical industrial managerial experience with knowledge of main Operational Excellence techniques (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, CI, etc.)
• Soft skills: Good commination; results driven; self-motivation; learning agility; ownership
• Technical Skills: Experience in transformation and change management Basics of finance and strategy
• Education: Bachelor degree above in Pharmaceutics or other related field
• Languages: Fluent English in listening, speaking, reading and writing

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.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

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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