Duration: 2 years contract
Type: Remote Role
Travel: This role involves regular travel to assigned manufacturing sites, estimated at 15–35% of working time depending on deployment phase and site requirements.
Job Description:
I. Purpose & Strategic Leadership
- Lead a team of Supply Planning Transformation Specialists to successfully deploy the Future Focused Planning program across a cluster of manufacturing sites.
- Ensure each assigned site transitions fully to the new Target Operating Model (TOM).
- Act as a senior transformation champion, embedding sustainable change and new ways of working across site supply planning teams.
- Drive consistency, quality, and speed of deployment across the site cluster, reporting progress to Program Leadership.
II. Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Supply Planning Transformation Specialists, providing day-to-day direction and support.
- Oversee end-to-end deployment of the Future Focused Planning program across all assigned manufacturing sites.
- Ensure each site achieves full adoption of the new Target Operating Model (TOM) within agreed timelines.
- Act as the primary escalation point for site-level deployment issues, risks, and blockers.
- Manage deployment timelines, milestones, and site readiness assessments across the cluster.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with site leadership, supply chain, and operations stakeholders, ensuring sustained engagement and alignment throughout the transformation journey.
- Report progress, risks, and issues to Program Leadership on a regular cadence.
- Drive consistency in deployment approach across all sites, sharing best practices and lessons learned.
- Champion change management best practices to embed sustainable behavioral change at site level.
- Collaborate with the second Deployment Lead to align on approach, share learnings, and resolve cross-cluster issues.
- Partner with the project team to build and maintain process playbooks and blueprints, gathering site-level input and testing the validity of playbooks to ensure they reflect real-world deployment requirements.
III. Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or related field (required). Master's degree or professional specialization in Supply Chain/Operations (preferred).
- Supply Chain Planning Experience — 8–12 years in supply chain planning, S&OP, IBP, MPS, or manufacturing operations at a senior level in Big Pharma Companies. Preferably a combination of both at a manufacturing site and global supply chain.
- Transformation / Operating Model Deployment — Proven track record of leading (not just contributing to) end-to-end Target Operating Model (TOM) deployment or supply chain transformation programmes, ideally across multiple sites.
- People Leadership — Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and developing a team of supply chain or transformation professionals. This role requires leading a team of Transformation Specialists.
- Strong background in supply planning, S&OP, or Integrated Business Planning (IBP) with a practical knowledge of SAP, Blue Yonder/JDA, or equivalent planning tools.
- Senior Stakeholder Engagement — Experience engaging and influencing at executive and cross-functional levels
- Change Management Knowledge — Formal certification (e.g. Prosci/ADKAR, APMG) or demonstrated structured change management methodology applied at programme level (Desirable).
- Positive mindset and ability to drive non-direct reports in a matrix organisation
IV. Ownership, Accountability & People Leadership
- Fully accountable for the successful deployment of the Future Focused Planning program across all sites within their cluster.
- Responsible for the performance, development, and wellbeing of Supply Planning Transformation Specialists.
- Ensures deployment quality, TOM adoption, and milestone achievement across assigned sites.
- Identifies and mitigates risks, escalating issues to Program Leadership as needed.
- Fosters a collaborative, business-first culture within the deployment team and at site level.
V. Influence & Decision Making
- Acts as the senior transformation representative for their site cluster, with broad influence over deployment approach, pace, and site readiness decisions.
- Drives alignment across global supply chain teams, site leadership, supply chain teams, and program stakeholders to enable smooth TOM adoption.
- Presents deployment progress, risks, and value realization updates to senior stakeholders to support informed decision making.
- Champions new ways of working and supply planning transformation across manufacturing network.
VI. Additional Information
Travel: This role involves regular travel to assigned manufacturing sites, estimated at 15–35% of working time depending on deployment phase and site requirements.
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.
US Tech Solutions is an
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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