Position : Supply Chain (E2E Value Chain) Consulting Transformation Director
Industry : Management Consulting
Vertical : Pharmaceutical, Bio Tech, Med Devices and Life Sciences
Location : UK Wide - Various Locations
Package : Package up to £250K (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 up and grow their consulting presence in the Global Pharmaceutical, Bio Tech Life Sciences, Med Devices, Med Tech sector and as such are looking for a number of new Consulting Directors to join the team focussed on the Operational / Supply Chain competence area. This is a well-established, well invested into consulting practice, with a great reputation for providing honest, innovative, sustainable and demonstrable transformation results on behalf of their Pharma, Life Sciences, Med Tech, Med devices clients
The Roles
These are classic Director level C-Suite consulting roles – blend of (remote, office and client location), 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, Bio Tech and Life Sciences sector. As a director within the group, you will act as a thought-partner to Senior level Supply Chain leaders within the Pharma, Life Sciences sector, building trust, advocacy and confidence and in doing so helping them to ideate and solve complex problems within their supply chain. 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. Furthermore as a Director you are considered mentors within the firm, acting as people-managers and career coaches across the team and across the Pharma, Bio Tech and Life Sciences sector.
Candidates
These roles are both sales and delivery focussed. Given the origination / sales target that these roles carry it is essential that you have a proven track record in consulting sales and can demonstrate that sales targets were attained Y O Y and furthermore you are able to demonstrate that sales were achieved with you as the originator. In order to be successful, you will need extensive experience of working within a Tier 1 or equivalent consulting organisation where your focus has been supporting Pharma, Bio Tech or Life Sciences clients in large scale Supply Chain transformation projects and programs. You will need to able to demonstrate the ability to think strategically about business and industry trends in Supply Chain / Manufacturing / Operations and use analytical, problem-solving techniques to break down complex issues. It is essential that you have built a solid network of contacts within the Pharma, Life Sciences sector, have experience in managing large scale often disparate teams and a reputation for delivering quality work for clients, demonstrating an understanding of the client's professional standards and maintaining respectful client relationships. In summary we are seeking an individual who is genuinely passionate and thrives in resolving complex Operational / Value Chain issues on behalf of clients. 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.
These are truly great opportunities for individuals who are looking for an opportunity to do something different from the normal large scale cookie cutter consulting approach. The client offers a great working environment, has an entrepreneurial, collegiate and collaborative culture and with these roles a genuine opportunity to grow and progress beyond the Director band
