Major accountabilities:

• Act as the Business Solution Manager responsible for Supply Planning in close collaboration with the GPO (Global Process Owners), Business Champions and Functional IT Experts and work stream lead
• Responsible to elaborate deliverables as per the project plan during conceptual design, build and deployment phase. Below is a list of such deliverables (not exhaustive)
• Establish or update business standard operating procedures, user work instructions and training documentation; execute business screening and testing of solution(s) and support and contribute to data migration
• Align and agree on integration of relevant processes and their respective system solution(s) e.g. production planning (ePP/DS), External Manufacturing (ARIBA supplier collaboration), LCM/LCI (ePPM, PLM), EDW/Formula1 with Kinaxis RR
• 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 cutover and hyper care phases to ensure proper go live for the first mover countries and subsequent country deployments
• Secure business reporting requirements in Supply Planning together with the Reporting and Analytics team

Minimum Requirements:

• Successful finish of University degree in the fields of supply chain management, Information science or comparable education
• Various years of experience working in the supply planning area in a commercial entity and/or manufacturing site either within Novartis or in the Pharmaceutical / Comparable Industry
• Experience in projects to implement, improving including redesign of processes in supply planning and the respective solution in Kinaxis RR Maestro; translate local process requirements into a solution as part of the global design 
• Good understanding related to the required Master Data setup to enable supply planning with Kinaxis RR Maestro
• Positive and pro-active attitude; flexibility to work in a fast-paced, quickly changing work environment in a global matrix environment and high degree of teamwork and quality orientation
• Kinaxis RR super user / experience user knowledge
• Business Scenario Analysis, Change Impact assessment
• fluent English required

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Benefits and rewards:

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Local benefits provided: Company Pension Plan; Life and Accidental Insurance; Meals, Allowance or Canteen in the office; Flexible working hours.

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture