The Process Steward Team members enable the business with the tools and data to best inform process health, which drive increased effectiveness, efficiency and consistency. Members are expected to remain actively engaged with User and Process Owner communities to ensure that processes are performing as designed and meeting both ongoing and developing business needs. The scope of the role includes processes that enable our interactions with other stakeholder groups across the clinical development environment. The Global Process Stewards are responsible for our Research Division's SAP solution and global oversight to Process Development in GCS in areas such as Packaging Execution, Material Handling, Distribution & Logistics (Order to Cash), Planning, Source to Settlement/Tax/Finance, Trade Operations, ISO, Relationship Mgmt, QA, and Compliance.

Primary Activities

Primary activities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the development and implementation of GCS processes that align with GCS short and long term objectives
• Act as overall knowledge expert of SAP and Global Business Processes for assigned focus area
• Drive business challenges to resolution with system solutions across our company's GCS
• Support Business case (Enhancement Prioritization Management Form) development and Demand Tracker for enhancement requests and prioritization
• Drive business process standardization, implementation and training on new processes
• Ensures integrity of a single global business process, reviews SOPs and assesses process changes vs system impact
• Contribute to our company's GCS Global Process Steward Network partnering with our Manufacturing Division Global Process Steward and COMET Functional Leads
• Support tier management and escalations for transactional issue resolution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify process driven opportunties to improve business performance
• Develop strong, trust based, collaborative relationships to drive change and execute on priorities with a diverse group of stakeholders

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree with 7 years experience or MBA and 3 years experience preferred. SAP hands on experience required.

Skills Include but not limited to:

• Ability to manage a diverse portfolio of projects and initiatives
• Experience leading technical teams for solution implementation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners
• Ability to properly identify risks to issue resolution, project timelines, scope, or deliverables and escalate accordingly
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong, trust based, collaborative relationships to drive change and execute on priorities with a diverse group of stakeholders
• 5+ years' of experience in Supply Chain Logistics
• 3+ years' of experience with SAP
• Results-orientated with the proven ability to execute on collaborative projects and develop subject matter expertise

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
1st - Day

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
n/a

Job Posting End Date:
11/15/2024
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Requisition ID:R317684