Associate Director, Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing IT Business Partner

Kyowa Kirin is a fast growing global specialty pharmaceutical company that applies state-of-the-art biotechnologies to discover and deliver novel medicines in four areas of unmet need: oncology, nephrology, immunology and CNS/movement disorders. The North America organization includes three offices (in New Jersey and California) that focus on drug discovery, product development, and commercialization. Together, we work as a close-knit team to understand clinical needs and advance innovations that can have a profound impact on patient lives.

As a patient centric organization that strives to deliver innovative medicines to meet unmet needs, we feel that it is critical to follow the safety guidelines defined by CDC and OSHA. We believe the COVID-19 vaccine is the best way to manage COVID risk to you, your colleagues, your family and our society. With that in mind, we are taking the essential step to ensure the safety of our employees during this health crisis by requiring all US employees, temporary workers, agency employees and independent contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, where allowed by state or local law and where vaccine supply is readily available. In accordance with applicable law, individuals may seek an accommodation for medical or disability-related conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs.

The Associate Director, Supply Chain and Manufacturing IT will be a strategic partner working directly business and technology leaders to understand challenges facing Supply Chain and Manufacturing. The candidate will bring forward technology solutions to drive consistency, scale, business value and simplifications to our processes and workflows.

The role will provide business process, business analysis, and project execution expertise within the ICT organization, in support of our business community.  They will help develop and drive business requirements and align those requirements with IT solutions that foster ICT’s global strategy, compliance, standards, and practices.

Key skills & responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders in defining, designing, proposing and implementation oversight of solutions for our key business processes from an end-to-end supply chain planning standpoint
• Partner with Manufacturing, Process Development, and Clinical Operations to align on demand assumptions and capacity needs at internal manufacturing sites
• Bring strong domain expertise for the supply chain planning products including ERP skills, analytics experience, and process optimization techniques or certifications
• Understand processes that overlap with manufacturing such as Finance, Procurement, and Order to Cash
• Define and develop capabilities to improve the quality of the forecast and bring them to life through technical requirements
• Build, maintain and optimize processes for portfolio growth
• Work on key global projects as needed

Experience

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in pharmaceutical or life science IT, or commensurate experience in supply chain or manufacturing support or operations is required.
• Demonstrated at least 5 years vendor or supplier management is required
  
• Demonstrated at least 5 years of experience in budget and/or portfolio management is required
• Business relationship or customer management experience is required
• Experience working in a GxP environment, including knowledge of CSV, SDLC and 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance concepts.
• Project Management & Lean Six Sigma a plus.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels of the organization including senior business and IT leadership
• Experience in successful delivery through external partner teams in an outcomes-based delivery model.
• Strong functional and technical knowledge in Integrated Business Processes.
• Exceptional ability in defining and diagraming product architecture and strategy
• Strong background in Enterprise Architecture best practices, methodologies, and documentation processes
• Demonstrated support responsibility and artifact creation for large/global IT solution/system
• Ability to multi-task diverse activities
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills
• Strong organization and planning skills
• Logical decision making using analytical and problem-solving skills

A successful candidate will possess a product, customer centric and capabilities mindset to drive the delivery of transformational capabilities of high business value. Prior demonstrated leadership in solution delivery with high quality outcomes in collaboration with internal, and external partners, with a metrics and data driven approach with strong knowledge in business applications, boundary systems and process methodologies required. 

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It is the policy of Kyowa Kirin North America, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, religion, creed, color, pregnancy, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or affection preference or citizenship status or any other category protected by law.

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