We’re looking for a key team member to strengthen our Global Clinical Supply Chain Distribution team. In this role, you’ll ensure that critical systems and processes supporting 500+ global studies run smoothly and efficiently—covering daily operations across more than 23 depots, affiliates, external partners, and a yearly budget of 50m CHF
General Information:
- Workplace: Kaiseraugst
- Start date: Sep 15. Latest Start Date: Oct 15
- Planned duration: 1 year with an option to extend
- Workload: 100%
- Home Office: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
- Team: 6 people
Must Haves:
- Degree (BA, MS, MBA) in a technical, business or supply chain field or associated relevant experience ***
- 5-7+ years operational experience in (Clinical) Supply Chain / Distribution / Planning*****
- Strong understanding of E2E supply chain management and systems, with a key focus on warehouse, transportation management and logistics (SAP ECC 6.0, preferred SAP S/4, SAP TM, SAP EWM); *****
- Excellent knowledge of clinical supply chain distribution processes, industry best practices, and applicable tools and systems to enable operational excellence. **
- Language: English (fluent)**
- Experience with SAP ECC 6.0, preferred SAP S/4, SAP TM, SAP EWM; S/4 including business interface monitoring or experience in SAP projects.***
- You are action-oriented and can influence and lead both internal and external stakeholders.
- You demonstrate curiosity, active listening, and a willingness to experiment and test new ideas when appropriate focusing on continuous learning and improvement.
- You have a collaborative and agile mindset, actively looking to contribute to global, cross-functional teams and develop a self-directed team organization.
- You solve problems and can manage complex situations autonomously
- You can manage multiple tasks and priorities
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Provide technical support and act as a first level support function to coordinate system, interface or transmission between SAP systems and SAP or non-SAP systems related issues in day-to-day distribution and logistics operations. Example: IDoc Monitoring,
- TIBCO Middleware Monitoring incl. management & resolution.
- Provide training to the end users on how to handle the system issues or how to find the information or new system functionality
- Participate in global projects (S/4 HANA) that aim to harmonize the overall supply chain processes and simplify the system landscape (define, design, build, test, deploy, related activities). Support CSV activities.
- Provide support and advanced knowledge for the clinical distribution related processes
- Apply / implement best practices, standardization and optimization of distribution processes across PTDS, with a focus on lead time, ensuring supply chain and inventory optimization for a scope of 500+ clinical studies and CHF 900 Mio in inventory.
- Supports the system & process chapter strategy in line with the overall distribution strategy, responsible for system and process strategy execution.
- Identify and drive root cause analysis, process and performance improvements.
- Acts as the main contact for IT partners and teams (e.g. second level support functions) and follow-up on corrective or preventive actions.
- Acts as a role model with an exemplary mindset of continuous improvement and global thinking.
- Accountable for innovation and RPA (robotic process automation) in the chapter
- Responsible for managing advanced analytics and reporting capabilities (SAC - SAP Analytics Cloud)
- Fosters a learning and collaboration culture within and across the chapters
- Acts as a coach and consultant for the distribution organization to support effective issue resolution and cascading of information to stakeholders, manages escalations
Thank you for your application!
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