Supply Planning Process Manager

Supply Planning Process Manager (Fixed Term Contract - through to end of 2026)

Job Purpose

The role of the Supply Planning Process Manager is to design, maintain and manage the Supply Planning process within the framework mandated by the Supply & Production Planning Global Process Director. The role will require working in collaboration with other team members within the end-to-end Planning GPO team and the markets/sites, where required. This role will be expected to take a lead role for the Supply Planning process, in particular:

• Act as champion of the Global ERP template from a Supply Planning process perspective.
• Manage and maintain the ERP template process design and documentation e.g. GSoPs.
• Understand and articulate business requirements, analyse design options, seek out and assess solution simplification opportunities where business case justification exists, in alignment with the vision set by the Supply & Production Planning Global Process Director and the Global Planning GPO.
• Monitor template adoption and adherence (in partnership with the Supply & Production Planning Global Process Director, fellow team members and other GPOs/Process Directors as needed), and drive the business towards common, standard global solutions.
• Work with the Principle Functional Consultants and appropriate third parties to understand new technology opportunities in the marketplace (cutting and leading edge) and assess if and how they will improve the Supply Planning process. Provide recommendations and suggestions for improvements to the Supply & Production Planning Global Process Director.
• Under the guidance of the Supply & Production Planning Global Process Director, benchmark against peers to validate GSK's pace of technological advancement and understand how other organisations are gaining cost and efficiencies through tech.
• Work with the support teams to ensure the community of Business planners receive appropriate business process support and new improvements are transitioned effectively.

Key Responsibilities

The key responsibilities with respect to the Supply Planning process are as summarised below. Note: Bullets suffixed with '( )' indicate where the Supply Planning Process Manager is accountable as well as responsible.

• Displays deep, specialist expertise and knowledge of their processes and systems. Interacts with upstream/downstream business processes to ensure alignment ( ).
• Leads identification, communication and deployment of best practices ( ).
• Optimise the use of ERP to support the business process ( ).
• Continuously Improve end-to-end Business Process Services ( ).
• Business case review and development for proposed template changes due to legal/fiscal/regulatory/business requirements.
• Support ERP projects in order to deploy new functionality into the organisation.
• SME support for transformation design and implementation.
• Acts as a 3rd line business process support in order to resolve issues or problems.
• Measures and improves "in-place and in use" - facilitate user adoption of standard ERP functionality.
• Run focused clinics/FMEA's in order to improve process or root cause why a process is failing.
• Develops preventative actions to stop process failures.
• Champions the development and use of the Core Commercial Cycle across the GSK enterprise.
• Leads the Communities of Practice forum ( ).
• Builds relationships to effectively manage and deliver new processes.
• Supports the creation and control of all business process related documentation, standards and SOPs.
• Promotes the effective teamwork spirit and works across boundaries effectively.
• Works closely with suppliers who deliver projects to ensure that standards and SOPs are clearly understood and followed.
• Monitors process adherence ( ).

Why You?

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

• Good leadership skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish credibility for professional input.
• Strong business English Language skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Effective in an environment with tight deadlines, finite resource and uncertainty.
• Facilitation skills - both large and small group.
• Ability to support centrals and local market's capability development around change and leadership.
• Strong learning agility.
• Capable to build relationships with the market, being open to the views of the market whilst promoting the standard template and processes.
• Ability to influence others and broker mutually acceptable solutions.
• Ability to operate across a wide variety of levels within the organisation, between detailed hands on operators within the business units through to senior executives.

Closing Date for Applications: 25th March 2025 (COB)

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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