Supply Chain Project manager

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

The Company

We are looking for a Supply Chain professional with proven track record in leading cross functional projects with impact on European wide Supply Chain processes, preferably in the Order-to-Cash space. This Project manager will be leading multiple efforts for the European Supply Chain Organization (as part of Global Supply Chain Operations) related to reconfiguration of our OTC ERP (sub)processes, related systems, documentation/reporting and potentially functional structures, all with both regional and/or local (country) impact. These cross-functional projects are to be managed in close collaboration with other functions such as Regulatory, Distribution, Logistics, Quality, Tax, Finance, Legal, Commercial and Information Systems

Role Description

The position will report into Senior Manager Supply Chain.

- Manage cross functional projects and drive to successful completion:
Manage of and/or participating in projects for the Customer Service group
Manage Order-to-Cash SAP enhancement projects

- Manage and carry accountability for key project deliverables

- Investigate, develop and propose solutions improvingorder-to-cash processes:
Develop and present business cases to executive audiences

- Ensure business requirements align with project scope and deliverables:
Maintain and manage project resource planning, coordinate gate reviews, ensure project scope, budget, deliverables and dead-lines are met

Responsibilities

- Successfully engage in knowledge transfer from previous PM, where applicable
- Manage and execute established project plan
- Ensure project is performed with a certain methodology ( Prince/Agile/Scrum..etc)
- Represent Europe Supply Chain work stream in governance forums associated to project
- Oversee and coordinate all activities with Supply Chain involvement (INT/OQ test; Cut-over etc.)
- Pro-active and regular communication on project status and deliverables
- Ensures proactive communication to get all teams/disciplines aligned and on track of the project deliverables& timelines
- Act as liaison among all Supply Chain Stakeholders and other functions or work streams.
- Act as liaison between business & IT and ensure correct translation of business requirement towards IT
- Guide the individual project members and ensure they perform the assigned project action on time
- Take care of risk management, change management and stakeholder management for each project

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related to Supply Chain or Logistics
- Proven track record in Project Management (PM certification preferable)
- Minimum 5 year experience leading complex Supply Chain projects related to ERP system (SAP) changes
- Deep understanding of E2E supply chain and Order-to-Cash business processes
- Experience in working in an international environment, ability to liaise/communicate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to navigate in a matrix organization with strong internal and external network relations

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Windimi Post.