• Job Description

  Req#: 371708BR
  
  2-5! This is the number of Supply Chain Life Cycle programs that you are going to manage end-to-end. You lead, plan and organize program activities to achieve our strategic objectives. Come join us and become a part of our world. Together we can discover new ways to improve and extend people's lives.
  
  Your Responsibilities:
  Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
  
  • The Life Cycle Manager (LCM) leads projects within his area of responsibility and is responsible for the successful implementation. A successful implementation includes avoiding supply disruption and stock-outs, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing project timeline and budget, mitigating risks effectively and creating and executing an effective submission & implementation strategy.
  
  • Forms the project team during kick-off meeting in the initiation phase. Organizes and leads project meetings and arranges meeting minutes until hand-over to the Life Cycle Implementation Expert (LCI)
  • Is responsible and accountable to develop together with the responsible functions in RA-CMC and RA the regulatory submission strategy and in conjunction with E2E-Supply Network Planning Manager, Sites, Markets and other stakeholder the implementation strategy. Identifies harmonization/bundling opportunities to reduce complexity.
  • Is responsible to check the impact of the project on supply, possible interaction with other projects or brand related activities, ensures whenever needed the prioritization across Life Cycle Projects. Project Lead is accountable to ensure that the Master Data strategy is created by the responsible Master Data group
  • The Project Lead together with the LCI creates a first version of the changeover plan (COP) including affected assortment (provided by LCI), planned submission, planned approval and planned implementation timelines on SKU level. Responsible to distribute project information to sites and markets (incl. COP) to trigger initial local data set-up (planning BOM, material master data, sales forecast etc.). The project lead only does the 1st communication of the COP Version 1 to the stakeholder, thereafter the LCI is responsible.
  • Responsible for project reporting and update in the applicable Life Cycle (LC) reporting tool. Responsible for communicating relevant information after submission to affiliates (Demand Managers) and affected manufacturing site(s) (SCM line functions).
  • Is accountable to ensure that all implementation activities are completed according to the project plan and the regulatory approvals in order to ensure a regulatory compliant implementation and that any changes to the project (e.g. timeline shifts) will be communicated. Accountable that bridging stock calculations are done from the E2E-Supply Network Planning Manager
  • Escalates to LC PMO / Program Manager / Brand Lead global and local critical issues (see section: “Issue reporting & resolution”)
  
  

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