Location
Gaithersburg, MD | United States
Job description
Gaithersburg, MD
Contract Duration: 12-36 months
Rate: Negotiable
Responsibilities:
- Excellent employment opportunity for a Senior Project Director in the Gaithersburg, MD area. (onsite)
- Responsible for coordination and delivery of a programme of works that will enable our ambition to create an integrated, global AI-powered supply network capable of proactively sensing emerging risks and opportunities, impact assessing them and autonomously responding.
- In the early phases of the programme you will be responsible for:
- Formation and mobilization of the programme team
- Partnering with Finance to shape detailed business case/s and ongoing funding requirements for the entirety of the programme
- Development of an integrated programme plan and roadmap, outlining how major milestones in this initiative align with other large transformational programmes
- Set up and alignment of governance of the programme with other existing digital governance forums
- Identifying and sequencing use cases to leverage interdependencies and deliver maximum value through the life of the programme
- You will then go on to manage the programme team to deliver the programme plan, track benefits, manage risks/issues and report status, ensuring ongoing alignment to GSC&S Digital Strategy and projects throughout.
- To enable your delivery you will work closely:
- With GSC&S Portfolio and Delivery Leads to understand which existing projects are on the critical path, identify any gaps and dependencies.
- With IT to develop the requirements for the underpinning technology platform, understand how it fits into the current systems landscape and to mobilize a cross-functional team across IT and the business to deliver that platform.
- With key stakeholders from other functions who also have existing projects on the critical path to handshake how they will align and report.
- With Global Operations and senior stakeholders to align on governance and strategy.
- Digital Supply Chain Programme Director Self Healing Supply Chain lead
- Global Supply Chain & Strategy (GSC&S) creates and enhances agile, connected, and sustainable supply chains that place pioneering science into the hands of patients, using the latest technologies.
- Our focus is on creating maximum competitive advantage and outstanding patient and customer service by enabling full supply- chain integration.
- To do so we have initiated a transformative Digital Strategy programme within our broader Operations 2030 strategy to fully continuously improve our speed and agility in delivering life-changing medicines to patients, drive new levels of productivity for our business and deliver exponential value.
- This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone with good supply chain knowledge, combined with excellent digital programme management to drive transformative change across the organization.
Experience
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree (or equivalent experience)
- Significant Programme Management experience with proven delivery track in a digital environment
- Familiarity with Digital Twins and Control Towers / Command centre preferably in Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Management knowledge
- Familiarity with leading-edge digital technologies
- Demonstrable experience of senior Stakeholder Management
- Proven track record of collaborating successfully across complex, global, cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrated skills in story telling with data and ability to successfully present sophisticated information to senior leaders to influence decision-making in a meaningful way!
- Ability to handle ambiguity and change both effectively and pragmatically.
- Familiarity with Decision Intelligence platforms such as Aera
- Familiarity with Supply Chain systems such as OMP, OneNetwork
- Familiarity with data science concepts, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
- Agile & Waterfall methodology delivery
- Experience of working in global organization where partners and project teams are geographically dispersed
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