Solution Design Manager – Logistics, Own Warehouse
NextLink Group
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Act as the Business Solution Manager responsible for Logistics W&D own warehouse in close collaboration with the GPO (Global Process Owners), Business Champions, Functional IT Experts and the LDC Adopt counterpart.
- Responsible to elaborate deliverables as per the project plan during conceptual design, build and adopt phase. Below is a list of such deliverables (not exhaustive) - Ensure a proper design of the solution to set up and integrate Novartis’ own warehouses in the upcoming LDC releases.
- Establish or update business standard operating procedures.
- Review and adopt, if necessary, the training material and working instructions
- Execute business screening of IT solutions and testing of solution(s)
- Support and contribute to data migration in Logistics W&D own warehouse area.
- Align and agree on integration of relevant processes and their respective system solution(s) within Logistics W&D e.g. in the area commercial operations, Intercompany Order Management and Direct Procurement
- Ensures that user requirements and functional specifications are consistent with global / local processes.
- Contribute to master data preparation for Screening, Testing and cut over.
- Supports the adopt team to ensure proper go live of the upcoming releases.
- Secure business reporting requirements in Logistics W&D together with the Reporting and Analytics team
- Verifying the existing core model for own warehouse based on SAP EWM together with the Global business process owner for Logistics at Novartis and preparing proposal for areas for improvement.
- Follow up on cross-functional topics e.g., staging with manufacturing and proposing together a solution design that is aligned with the global process owners.
- Taking over project tasks in conceptual design, build, UAT testing & training, cutover & hyper care phase according to need within the team
Requirements
- Various years of experience in Supply Chain working in logistics within the own warehouse area in a manufacturing side ideally in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Several years of experience of SAP implementation projects and deployments of the SAP EWM solution, ideally in a team lead role.
- Various years’ Experience in implementing own warehouse setups and understanding to translate process requirements into solution and being able to verify if the solution meets the business requirements.
- Fast Self-learning attitude
- Forward thinking
- Experience in integration with Manufacturing execution processes and systems e.g., MES system
- Committed against timelines within the given time frame in a fast-paced project environment
- Being able to lead people and advise the team
- Ability to work independently and in a structured and careful manner.
- Positive and pro-active attitude.
- Flexibility to work in a fast-paced, quickly changing work environment.
- High degree of teamwork and quality orientation
- Ability to operate in a global matrix environment
- Capability to moderate workshops with business champions to work on requirements and challenge them if required
- Being able to talk and present to higher management within LDC and outside of LDC, to retrieve guidance and force decisions.
- Fluent English
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SAP EWMdata migrationbusiness process designUAT testingmaster data preparationsolution integrationlogistics managementproject managementsupply chain managementwarehouse setup
Soft Skills
leadershipself-learningforward thinkingtime managementindependencestructured workteamworkquality orientationflexibilitycommunication