What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Operations Specialist position at SSi People?
Title: Business Operations Associate
Location: New Brunswick, NJ
Duration: 12 months with possible extension
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Position Summary:
The GSC Strategy & Business Operations (S&BO) Role is accountable for
1) Driving the full slate of global supply chain ‘run the business’ and ‘change the business’ activities in alignment with our GSC strategic roadmap.
2) Leading GSC-wide projects and initiatives such as: yearly business calendar processes/deliverables, change management, communications, analytics, performance across the GSC organization and all business pillars (delivery, customer partnership, E2E planning, clinical supply chain, process and digital excellence)
3) Drive data analytics and visualization strategy by collaborating with business partners to explore, process, and analyze data from diverse sources delivering actionable insights to key stakeholders.
4) Conduct external benchmarking to ensure operational relevance and identify opportunities for process improvement.
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.
Qualifications & Experience:
-Bachelor’s degree required in supply chain, data analytics, life sciences and/or business administration
advanced degree preferred. Strong Project Management capability skills, PMP preferred.
- 4 years of experience in business operations, supply chain, data analytics, structuring analytical tools, and
data visualization, preferably in pharmaceutical or related industry.
-Proficient with data science and analytics, modeling platforms, and visualization tools (e.g. SQL, Python,
Tableau, Spotfire, PowerBi, Solvace); up-to-date on emerging technology and able to quickly adapt to new
digital ways of working / systems.
