Job Description

With 64 manufacturing sites in 26 countries, our aspiration is to become the top manufacturer of innovative and generic medicines in the industry.

Position Purpose:
Within Supplier Relationship Teams drive detailed planning, scheduling and order management to assure agreed delivery performance level to CPO's. Develop and manage the relationship with External Suppliers and to customers for all supply related matters, such as demand/supply planning and analysis and order management to guarantee high customers service levels including stock management for free of charge customer-supplied components.

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to :

• Design and implement S&OP meetings with supplier based on frequencies outlines in the segmentation assessment to discuss NOSSCE and business critical metrics to finalize supply plan, provide performance feedback, implement root cause analysis and achieve continuous improvements.

• Representing Indian SRT in Demand Review, Supply review, consolidating Net requirements from sites, teamwork and coordination with Internal and External partners. Optimize key supply chain processes according to the NOSSCE standards for the India SRT (i.e. Demand Review, Supply Review, IBP) and relevant parameters (i.e. lead times, MOQ, product segmentation, order frequencies,..) in order to increase the processes effectiveness and compliance to the defined standards.

• Ensure data in SUPER is accurate and timely updated. Plan, run, and coordinate all activities related to the supply and update sites with the latest delivery schedule. Responsible for order fulfillment tasks for a product manufactured at External Suppliers within scope of SRT.

• Establish and be responsible for an optimal supply plan, with the goal to balance customer service level, production capabilities at external supplier, inventory level. Responsible for timely order fulfillment including organization and management of physical shipment of goods in collaboration with freight forwarders.

• Responsible for controlling stock out and Minimum back orders. Communication to all customers around supply delays with escalation cards. Vendor performance management, measurement & critical metric maintenance. Collaborate with Suppliers on biweekly basis to discuss open orders and to get accurate overview of capacity and resources for the assigned External Suppliers in order to highlight early warning signals in terms of unbalanced supply vs demand.

• Promote, supervise and eventually lead actions plans to achieve supply, customer services level (i.e. SDP,VCP). Improve Supply Chain performance by increasing process robustness, minimizing manual work, and educating suppliers on KPI's. Analyzing the supply important metric reporting, highlighting gaps vs targets and defining and supervising gaps mitigation actions in collaboration with SRT's.

Minimum requirements

What you'll bring to the role:

• University level or above or scientific degree that contains supply chain management, MBA (Operations), MBA (Supply Chain).
• 8+ years planning, logistic and/or SC experience in an industrial operations environment preferable from pharma background with experience working in a GMP and/or GSP environment.
• Supply Chain Principles - extensive knowledge and under-standing of Materials Management principles such as (but not limited to) MPS, MRP, CRP, DRP, SFC, purchasing, distribution, import/export, transportation, etc.
• Commercial negotiations skills.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusion workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration, and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

Novartis is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons.

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Why Novartis?
766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we're proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people's lives.

We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world's toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying!

Functional Area

Technical Operations

Division

Novartis Technical Operations

Business Unit

NTO SANDOZ TECHOPS

Employment Type

Regular

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No