Supply Chain Performance Management Data & Digital Lead

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Job Description:

Title Supply Chain Excellence Performance Management Data & Digital Lead

Location Zurich, Switzerland / Lexington, MA

About the role:

As a Supply Chain Excellence Performance Management Data & Digital Lead, you will manage and optimize various supply chain processes to support business goals. You will be involved developing and implementing strategies to improve logistics, production planning, and inventory performance management, contributing to Takeda's mission of delivering better health to people.

How will you contribute:

• Business Process Leadership for Performance Management and Business Intelligence.
• Manage junior Stakeholders driving discussions (e.g. around target setting and targets achievement) leveraging on soft skills and own network.
• Responsible for the development maintenance and optimization of Global Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators and the related performance management process, supporting performance dialogues and best practice sharing.
• Make valuable information available to all levels of the business for decision making and optimization, aligning and connecting plants, functions, manufacturing regions and OPU’s, and bridging between various systems where appropriate.
• Contribute to GSC/DD&T large project teams and leads mid to large projects.
• Partner with DD&T, functions and project teams to ensure the proper creation and maintenance of KPI’s reports; managing the definition of strategy, design, implementation and maintenance of the most appropriate digital Business Intelligence solutions, in corporation with DD&T, showing agility in operating in a nonhierarchical matrix organization.
• Lead or contribute to initiatives and complex projects in the area of Performance Management/Business Intelligence.
• Contribution to GMS dashboard and maintenance/continuous improvement of the current GSC dashboard and its future evolution.
• Managing, maintaining and enhancing existing Global Supply Chain reporting solutions on the various platforms, interacting with users to capture demand.
• Supporting capability building in the area of KPI’s performance management and contribute to best practice sharing and supply chain managers network meeting, contributing to team development and hiring of new team members.
• Lead Performance Dialogues and Communities of Practice (CoP’s).
• Lead team communication including innovation and benchmarking.
• Lead benchmarking exercises (e.g. POBOS).
• Own digital products.
• Contribute to data governance.
• Proactive and able to handle complexity within a matrix environment.
• Ability to work in team and to value diversity, partnering with less experienced colleagues.
• Strong ethics and integrity.
• Ability to have difficult discussions with stakeholders.
• Able to contribute actively to the team and to support management of consultants supporting the team, including their spending vs budget.
  
  

What you bring to Takeda:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Information Technology, Data Analytics/Science, or a related field.
• 7 years experience as a Business Analyst, with a focus on data modeling, analytics, visualization. Experience in Biopharma is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in data modeling concepts; experience with SQL, Python, DAX, M and modern analytics techniques is a plus.
• Experience with custom building data visualizations (in QLIK and/or PowerBI is a plus)
• Proficient in Supply Chain concepts (Material Requirements Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Production Planning, Inventory Projection, Performance Management etc; relevant certification e.g. APICS is a plus).
• Can operate in highly complex situations, improve workflows, and provide guidance to others
• Applies advanced decision-making skills to complex situations, provides recommendations, and mentors others in decision-making processes.
• Fully proficient in executing Continuous Improvement Process strategies in highly complex situations, capable of advising and coaching others on best practices and improvements (relevant certification e.g. Lean 6 Sigma certification is a plus).
• Experienced user of SAP products.
• Familiarity with financial reporting is a plus.
• Broad experience and good understand of Supply Chain.
• Broad experience with performance management.
• Solid experience in SAP, APO, and BI.
• Strong knowledge of the SAP BI suite, in particular SAP BW.
• Knowledge of Power BI application and Qlik.
• Experience in Value Stream Mapping / E2E value streams is preferable.
• Experience with capability building is preferable.
• Lean Six Sigma Education is preferable.
  
  

Locations:

Zurich, SwitzerlandUSA - MA - Lexington

Worker Type:

Employee

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time