Manufacturing – Business Operations Associate

Position : Business Analyst – Manufacturing Operations

Location: New Brunswick, NJ

Contractual Role : This is a 50/50 remote working situation.

The candidate will work onsite 3 days one week and 2 days onsite the next. Rotating like that for the duration of the contract.

Qualification and Experince:

• Bachelor’s degree required in supply chain, data analytics, life sciences and/or business administration advanced degree preferred.
• MUST HAVE 4yrs in pharma background and need experience in business operations.
• Min 4 yrs proficiency in data science and analytics, modeling platforms, and visualization tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, Spotfire, PowerBi, Solvace)
• Min 4 years of experience in business operations, supply chain, data analytics, structuring analytical tools, and data visualization, in pharmaceutical or related industry.

Key Responsibilities:

-Establish, document, maintain, evolve, and facilitate the Global Supply Chain (GSC) standing governance,business processes and best practices.

– Facilitate meetings using GSC governance framework, setting of agendas, priorities, and objectives; understand and triage topics for discussion and alignment. Facilitate discussions in a structured manner to achieve quick decisions and robust outcomes.

– Drive simplification, standardization, and consistency of the strategic planning processes and related governance across GSC pillars.

– Identify and oversee the required processes and tools to evaluate performance and enable pro-active data-driven risk detection and decision taking.

– Lead the development of GSC pillar metrics and measures that drive the identification of continuous improvement opportunities and ensure healthy business operation.

– Drive development of dashboards and ensure consistency across GSC performance scorecards in collaboration with cross functional business & insights analytic partners.

-Coordinate the identification, prioritization and implementation of GSC initiatives to improve and ensure long-term organizational performance and process efficiency.

-Plan, manage and lead projects and/or multifunctional teams set to implement continuous improvement initiatives.

-Continually assess GSC business processes with the mindset of continuous improvement as well as internal and external benchmarking.

-Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in data analytics and visualization and bring innovative solutions for consideration.

-Creative Storytelling: Ability to transform complex ideas into clear, engaging, and visually appealing presentations.

Culture & People:

-Define, prepare and execute communication plans for GSC (in collaboration with pillar SBO leads) that include newsletters, townhalls, face-to-face event preparations, and other culture engagements.

-Ensure excellent stakeholder management within GSC as well as partners such as Finance, BI&A, Demand Planning, Human Resources, IT (not exhaustive).

-Lead and facilitate community of practice and hybrid/virtual centers of excellence for change and culture initiatives.

-Organize cultural and team-building events, activities, and workshops to promote collaboration, inclusivity, and a strong sense of belonging among employees.

Change Management:

– Develop and implement change management strategies and plans.

-Lead execution of change management activities by applying BMS methodology & tools to support adoption of project related changes.

-Drive employee engagement initiatives and programs aimed at fostering a positive work environment and enhancing employee satisfaction and morale.

Skills/Competence required:

• Strong Project Management capability skills, PMP preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal executive-level communication skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and confidently to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to prioritize work with autonomy and drive results under pressure, cultivate growth mindset in others.
• Skilled in leading cross-functional, complex projects with high organizational impact; requiring enterprise stakeholder manager, leading and influencing activities and non-direct team members, leading across multiple sites, workstreams globally.
• Excellent collaboration, problem solving and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Proven critical thinking, analytical and logic skills with a focus on fact-based decision-making.
• Financial management awareness and strong acumen - clear understanding and alignment on the business
• problem, value/return on investment, identifying critical stakeholders and team members, building project
• structure/approach, and creating robust execution plans
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, organized and able to prioritize execution activities to meet

Please contact jubila@cephasconsult.biz

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $48.00 - $54.80 per hour

Expected hours: 8 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: On the road

Salary : $48 - $55