Clinical Supply Chain planning leader

Are you looking for an opportunity to drive the distribution planning cycle and lead the strategic development and improvement process? If so, this is the role for you.

As Supply Planning Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the long-range planning process is converted into a usable manufacturing forecast and supply plan to facilitate an effective decision-making process

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Develop and lead all key performance indicators for managing the performance of Vaccine distribution planning and ensure that associated governance is in place
• Support requests from other departments requiring distribution planning resources
• Represent the distribution planning department and participate in global projects and lead departmental improvement projects
• Lead complex distribution incident investigations to determine corrective and preventive actions
• Analyze processes to identify gaps, propose improvements and implement cross distribution planning
• Ensure that financial activities are performed by the operational team
• Develop and provide all reporting needs to manage the operations
• Ensure that all connections and interfaces with stakeholders are in place
• Identify and analyze distribution plan variances as well as reporting and root cause removals
• Monitor the accuracy of master data necessary to run the global distribution plan and escalate issues
• Responsible for full business analysis of distribution planning and opportunities, providing excellent information reporting to the leadership team
• Act as a change agent in the organization
• Point of contact for external manufacturing to ensure the implementation of key projects
• Responsible to build and monitor the right key performance indicators
• Support employees and specialist in each area to build a governance and define action plans

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Scientific or Industrial
• 5+ years’ experience in distribution and supply chain

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Logistics/Supply Chain
• APICS Certification, Black or Green Belt, Lean Sigma Certification
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work in a matrix organization
• Strong influencing skills
• Ability to simplify complex processes
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• Knowledge of enterprise resource planning systems
• Sense of urgency, flexibility and accountability
• Enterprise thinker (end-to-end supply orientation, cross functional team spirit, sharing of good practices within the network)
• Proven planning and organizational skills
• Ability to lead and drive change

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk .
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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