M&S GBU Transformation Leader

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Your job, as M&S GBU Transformation Leader (all genders), is to lead specific performance initiatives at site or cross-site by selecting the most appropriate deployment modality and designing/executing accordingly to maximize impact on performance.
You act as a catalyst of change, supporting sites in "making improvement happen", and ultimately delivering measurable and lasting performance impact.

About the job

Generate local/transverse performance impact by driving specific boosters/performance programs, leveraging SMS2.0, Digital and Industrial best Practices for a defined scope (site or cross-sites):

• Leading the diagnostic, design, and implementation of boosters by anticipating risks and opportunities, addressing specific performance breakthroughs (e.g., resources, planning, governance, routines, capacity, value analysis, productivity, yield, agility) and coaching local team (i.e., Change Leaders, Initiatives Leaders) to ensure sustainability, value capture and scalability

• Monitoring progress vs plan/impact on performance, removing roadblocks and challenging the local transformation team, to make sure the full potential is achieved

• Guiding sites team in the deployment of ecosystems/pillars within SMS 2.0, providing input to the design, refining efforts bases on feedback, ensuring adherence to standard methodology, and transferring capabilities to local teams by trainings

• Addressing specific business needs of the sites, implementing them in practice and ensuring the post-implementation codification

• Supporting the sites to define which digital solutions can be deployed to address the site's business needs by proposing and developing new approaches for transformation, but also post deployment, to ensure adoption, value realization and continuous improvement by incorporating the digital tool usage into the new business routines

• Ensuring continuous improvement and optimization of standards/playbooks and digital applications by proving detailed action plan but also input in his/her areas of expertise to archetype/ecosystems and digital product owners

• Coaching and mentoring by reinforcing change management capabilities at site

• Acting as a peer partner for Sites Leadership Teams

Generate performance at scale & standardization by designing and codifying standard transformation approaches for an identified performance gap:

• Identifying and scoping opportunities for standardized approaches to drive performance at scale

• Leveraging technical expertise from local and global teams to standardize an approach and improvement levers

• Leveraging digital expertise

About you

Experience:

• A significative experience in Industrial Operations environment and in Change management methodologies with a good exposure to lean manufacturing, SMS 2.0 and digital/Factory 4.0 solutions in place/in use

Soft skills:

• Strong leadership: ability to drive initiatives and decision making, to influence in matrix organization, to shape a vision and to disrupt the status quo with innovation and with pragmatism, Capacity to inspire trust and to create powerful relationships

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• People management: ability to develop people, coach, provide structured feedback

• High level of autonomy in execution: capacity to adapt with agility, to take calculated risks and to anticipate potential issues

Technical skills:

• Knowledge of the Lean methodology and a good functional knowledge on industrial business processes

• Knowledge of basic financial analysis and management accounting

Education:

• Master's degree (Engineering/Pharmaceutical studies) or similar

Languages:

• English and French fluent

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Benefit from a well-thought-out benefits package that rewards your contribution and commitment.

• We take care of you and your family with a wide range of health and social such as high-quality healthcare, numerous prevention programs and coverage for long-term illness. Our 14-week paid family leave for both parents is outstanding as well as a wide range of childcare benefits.

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn't happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let's be those people.

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