Supply Chain Consulting Senior Managers - Pharmaceutical, Med Devices, Life Sciences Sector

S.I.S Executive
Southampton
7 months ago
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Position : Supply Chain Transformation Consulting Senior Managers


Industry : Management Consulting


Sector : Pharmaceutical, Med Devices, Med Tech and Life Sciences


Location : UK Wide – Hybrid Working


Package : Package up to £140K (including benefits and bonus) dependent on experience


Background


Our client is a market leading Top Tier Global Consulting firm. With offices in nearly 200 countries and a workforce of over 300,000 employees they support some of the World’s leading Private, Publicly traded organisations and government / governing bodies in defining and executing business critical strategies, covering a variety of themes, topics and competence areas. They are looking to significantly ramp and grow their consulting presence in the Global Pharmaceutical, Med Devices and Life Sciences sector and as such are looking for several Senior Managers to join the team focussed on Supply Chain transformation competence area.


The Roles


These are classic C-Suite consulting roles – hybrid working, where you will have the opportunity to help shape and take responsibility for some of the world’s most ambitious and complex Supply Chain transformation projects and programs across the Pharma, Med Devices, Bio Tech and Life Sciences sector. As a Senior Manager within the practice, you will help clients to shape ideas and solve complex problems through building trust, advocacy and confidence. The practice has deep expertise across the whole value chain and covers a broad remit though typical areas of project program work will include, Procurement Strategy: Improvement to operational or transactional procurement across the buying lifecycle : Supply Chain Strategy - Operating Model design, segmentation strategy and inventory optimisation : Digital Supply Chain - next-generation supply chain technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, cognitive automation and AI, Internet-of-Things (IOT), Blockchain and Big Data analytics : Supply Chain Analytics - Developing supply chain analytics to deliver enhanced end to end SC visibility (e.g. creating and connecting supply chain models to customer and pricing analytics). Manufacturing Efficiency : supporting clients through lean transformation, process excellence and optimisation.


Candidates


In order to be successful in these roles all applicants will need to have significant business change and transformation experience focussed in one of the aforementioned sectors Pharma, Med Devices, Life Sciences or Bio Tech. Your experience could have been gained within a Top Tier Big 4 or equivalent Global consulting organisation, or you could be currently working within the Pharma, Life Sciences Bio Tech sector in an internal change function operating at a strategic level. You do not need expertise in all of the transformation areas outlined above, your expertise could be purely Procurement or Logistics & Warehousing or Manufacturing & Operations or broader Supply Chain – what is essential is that your experience is change / transformation focussed and you have an understanding of Technology enabled supply chain change. We are seeking individuals who are looking for full life cycle transformational project work and to that end you will need a high degree of commercial acumen and an ability to see things through. Please be rest assured of discretion and confidentiality and all contact is in line with GDPR. S.I.S Executive is a Global Executive Search organisation acting on behalf of a third-party client

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