Life Cycle Manager

Job description

Job Description

The Life Cycle Manager acts as a project lead at Site for NTO technical/manufacturing/engineering projects during the Life Cycle of a given product, e. g. product launches, changes, transfers, pruning, divestment and other special projects like e. g. SPT, ensuring coordination and alignment across global and local functions. The Life Cycle Manager has to setup and lead local and/or global cross-functional teams, to ensure optimal realization of NTO strategies (considering LEAN methodology, pipeline re-design, sourcing strategies, assortment optimization/complexity management) and ensure NTO objectives can be reached during ongoing life-cycle activities regarding: Customer service-level, COGS, Inventory, Compliance.

Major Accountabilities:

• Represent the site in cross-functional project teams led from global functions, e.g. Product Launches, Program Management Teams to ensure the coordination of all activities at site level
• Setup and lead local and/or global cross-functional project teams, to ensure time to mar-ket / implementation of all on-going life-cycle activities.
• Drive the Evaluation, and define the scope and objectives of projects
• Support preparation of business cases incl. financial evaluation (ROI, NPV), provide -reports/updates, to facilitate Management decision-making on life cycle activities.
• Managing of cross-functional Project Teams
• Define and establish the submission and implementation strategy with all responsible stakeholders (e.g. Regulatory, Planning, Franchise) in alignment with the NTO strategy
• As part of the submission and implementation strategy drive the agreement on the change request strategy and ensure that the project related change requests in the corre-sponding change control system are maintained in an adequate status as required by the processes.
• Define and establish the master data strategy together with MDG to ensure an early master data modelling for all Life Cycle Projects.
• Ensure information flow to CPO’s and sites to reflect baseline planning and updates to plans are reflected in SAP.
• Drive the definition of project milestones and ensure, project implementation is done according to the agreed timelines
• Identify potential risks and elaborate contingency plans as appropriate, communicate project progress and deviations
• Set-up the project charter, status report and baseline planning in appropriate system, e.g. TTRC, Life Cycle Project Management Sharepoint, Transfer tool, Navigator, Integrity Manager
• Align inventory level for launch products with the responsible functions, e.g. Brand Lead, SNP or any other functions accountable for product inventories
• Align bridging-/contingency- stocks for change projects, transfers, pruning and divestment projects with responsible functions
• Ensure alignment of brand specific activities outside of the Site and vice versa.
• Provide teams with appropriate Site support and/or coordinate whenever required local activities
• Provide SCM input to Supply Agreements and Trading Service procedures if applicable check for feasibility and completeness.

Desired profile

Minimum requirements

• University degree in science (chemistry, pharmacy or chemical engineering), and/or business administration advantageous
• English - fluent, German - desirable, 3rd language – a plus
• Minimum 3 years, including at least 2 years’ experience in various pharmaceutical functions e.g. supply chain / production and/or technical development
• Experience in project management, leading cross-functional global teams
• Good understanding of pharmaceutical or food industry supply chain processes and Lean philosophy
• Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing business environment
• Preferably 2 years Novartis experience