Job Description As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
Location / Division Specific Information CA - Remote/Hybrid / Drug Substance
How will you make an impact? You will play a critical role in bridging the gap between the technical and business aspects of our Advanced Therapies organization. You will govern and maintain SAP master data and processes and support analyzing, documenting, and communicating business requirements to ensure effective IT solutions are developed and implemented to meet business needs. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, superb communication abilities, and a deep understanding of both business and IT processes.
What will you do? - Creation and maintenance of SAP master data.
- Collaborate with functional area SMEs to understand and document business needs, objectives, and requirements.
- Conduct thorough analysis of current business processes and systems to identify areas for improvement and optimization focusing on the order to cash and procure to pay processes.
- Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and objectives.
- Develop and maintain documentation, including business process flows, use cases, and functional requirements.
- Facilitate communication and cultivate collaboration between business users and IT teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Find opportunities to standardize processes for efficiency and productivity.
- Conduct business due diligence on new user initiatives to ensure viability of proceeding; identify benefits and risks; propose recommendations and appropriate risk mitigation solutions for consideration.
- Provide guidance on questions involving technical integrations that may arise in day to day operations with our users.
- Support and/or drive any training associated with the approved changes prior to execution.
- Support implementation and integration projects.
How will you get here? Education Bachelor's degree in business related field (preferably in Computer Science, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Systems Engineering, or similar field of study), or comparable Further Education Qualification.
Experience - 3 years or relevant work experience
- Knowledge of ERP system and master data management principles and solutions
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools like MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Outlook, MS-PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat etc.
- Demonstrable experience in handling large sets of often complex data, analyzing data and turning it into actionable information.
- Demonstrable experience in working independently, take ownership of initiatives and drive execution.
- Capable of integrating technical solutions into business processes and ensuring user understanding; including use of process mapping techniques and training.
- Knowledge of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) (Continuous Improvement) methodology to help develop new and better ways of doing things, and consistently strive to improve skills and knowledge in related field.
Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes - Experience of working in a regulated environment. Working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). Prior experience with GMP and CSV, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry is a strong plus.
- Knowledge and understanding of Product Lifecyle management and relationships between system modules (Part Catalogue, Supply Chain, Inventory, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Finance) for effective data management and to maintain excellent service levels.
- Capable of interpreting business needs, and translating them into support services.
- Ability to work in a team structure, make decisions, address problems, communicate inside & outside the organization.
- Capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on area of assigned responsibility. Uses good judgement in gathering input for decisions.
- Ability to quickly understand and adjust to changing business needs.
- Flexible with an ability to effectively work across time zones, in complex projects, and in varied work locations.
- Collaborative style with a demonstrated ability to work within a matrixed environment and with external customers; an ability to negotiate and influence outcomes and inspire change, both internally and externally.
- Solid attention to details, organizing and maintaining the information used for making changes and updates to the data.
- Analytical approach and comfortable manipulating large data sets, critical thinking skills and can visualize metrics to clearly communicate key insights.
- Solid understanding of data sources, data structure and relationships and data organization.
- Effective communicator, ability to work closely with different departments, teams and subsidiaries, to understand their data needs and deliver accurate and relevant master data.
- Models positive thinking and is open to change, good collaborator and works well with everyone in the organization.
- Communicate risks to timelines in driving various activities.
- Ability to prioritize numerous tasks successfully, identify and resolve problems and work with a sense of urgency.
This position has not been approved for relocation assistance. Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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Compensation and Benefits The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $83,300.00-$125,000.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards