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MSD Associate Director Clinical Manufacturing Delivery Hybrid - NJ Prague 
United States, New Jersey, Rahway 
965676802

30.06.2024

Job Description

our Research & Development Division, you will be responsible for delivering SAP solutions to our Global Clinical Manufacturing user community.

You will participate in interviews with our company's' stakeholders to capture user requirements and process flows, lead and participate in design, and build solutions with business users and SAP team members to further extend capabilities and functionalities on our existing SAP solution in order to satisfy and deliver on the strategic and tactical priorities of our Global Clinical Manufacturing and Supply business.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Serves as team member in the deployment and support of SAP applications across all functional areas supporting Clinical Manufacturing. This includes leading or contributing to the requirements analysis, use cases, functional and technical design, implementation and testing in line with the SDLC methodologies and the Global SAP template.

  • Performs feasibility analysis and assessments for new requirements, including understanding implications on the current and future architecture. This includes developing high level proposal with timelines and tasks.

  • Is responsible for drafting / reviewing high-level design and functional requirements for integrating enterprise systems with the enterprise ERP environment, external parties (Contract Manufacturing Organizations, 3PLs). Formulates options including assessing their relative merits and risks and works with clients / business analyst to determine the best solution.

  • Communicates and partners broadly with stakeholders at multiple levels across the enterprise and maintains awareness of projects or changes to other systems that may impact enterprise systems to ensure there is no degradation of service. Understands priorities and deadlines and anticipates change and escalates accordingly.

  • Advises clients / business analysts on technology-related business problems, leveraging IT colleagues as appropriate.

  • Acts as subject matter expert on Supply Chain solutions, primarily responsible for gathering functional / business requirements for solution design for manufacturing, warehouse operations, distribution, and reporting to ensure compliance as business strategies and requirements continue to evolve.

  • Develops subject matter expertise within functional and technical teams in overall SAP solutions for Clinical and provides direction and guidance to drive ongoing configuration, enhancements, and integration effort.

  • Service Management: Manage the total scope of IT delivery (Cost, Quality and Time).

  • Smooth transition of projects into production.

  • Managing expectations of business user community in a highly FDA regulated environment.

Required Experience and Skills:

  • Minimum 7 years overall experience in Supply Chain Management and SAP ERP.

  • Experience in SAP Supply Chain areas of Production Execution (PE), Warehousing (MH) and Distribution (SD).

  • Experience implementing and integrating MES- PAS-X solutions with SAP.

  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and business partnering skills.

  • Excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills.

  • Ability to translate complex technical issue into business terms.

  • Ability to drive continuous improvement across team.

  • Ability to operate in a cross-functional / matrix environment.

  • Acts as a technology mentor to team member.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

  • Supply chain management knowledge focused in core SAP capabilities that managesday-to-day processes of an enterprise (e.g. order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-product) andknowledge of touch points with MES-PAS-X systems will be highly desirable

  • Hands on with full Life Cycle Implementations with emphasis as Subject Matter Expert in SAP

  • Deep understanding of Integration through middleware with other systems.

  • Experience with Automation and Digital initiatives.

  • Superior communication skills and the ability to interact directly with business users.

Education Minimum Requirement:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computers Science, Life Sciences.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

Current Contingent Workers apply

US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by aagreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

Expected salary range:

$135,500.00 - $213,400.00


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