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Bristol Myers Squibb Associate Director, RR COE Technical Lead in Dublin, Ireland
Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.
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Bristol Myers Squibb Ireland
Bristol Myers Squibb is a leading global biopharma company focused on discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with serious diseases in areas including oncology, haematology, immunology, cardiovascular and neuroscience. Our employees work every day to transform patients’ lives through science.
Bristol Myers Squibb has been in operation in Ireland since 1964, employing over 650 people across a range of activities and business units. Many of the global business services, including the European Treasury Centre, Market Supply Operations and Commercial Operations have a presence in Ireland.
Ireland is also home to External manufacturing’s global headquarters, the business unit responsible for the management of manufacturing contract operations (CMO’s) and ensuring reliable supply of product to patients across the Bristol Myers Squibb global network.
Located in Dublin, Cruiserath Biologics Campus, a one billion Multi-Product Cell Culture Biologics Manufacturing facility plays a central role in the Global Product Development and Supply (GPS) network as the company’s first European biologics manufacturing facility. This state of the art facility will produce multiple therapies for the company’s growing biologics portfolio. Global Biologics Laboratory (GBL) responsible for the release testing of Biologics Drug product for the network, is also based on the Cruiserath Biologics Campus.
For more information about Bristol Myers Squibb, visit us at BMS.com/ie
The Role
The Global SC Planning Excellence organisation is seeking to recruit a Associate Director, RR COE Technical Lead for its operation based in Dublin. The person will be accountable for the successful deployment, business adoption and continuous improvement of planning capabilities in Rapid Response. This includes:
Business Technical Lead with in-depth knowledge of system design
Business Technical Lead with in-depth knowledge of all planning capabilities deployed, including use cases and best practices
Forges a seamless relationship with IT and planning teams to drive best in class planning capabilities
Owns the RR CoE Issue/Remediation process with a focus on providing best-in-class service to our customers
Responsible for overseeing and approving all configuration changes and cutover activities going into production environment
Owns the design and successful implementation of RR CoE initiated regression testing and planner completed user acceptance testing (UAT) with a focus on accuracy/efficiency
Acts as the Technical Lead for all Company project/workstreams impacting Rapid Response, providing technical guidance, support, or acting as the RR CoE lead when required.
Based on your function, department or individual position, you will have the opportunity to discuss with your Manager the option to work remotely up to 50% of the time, over a two-week period, with the flexibility to choose the days that align with your collaboration needs.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
As the Business Technical Lead, he/she is accountable to have an in depth understanding of the system landscape including all inbound/outbound interfaces, data transformation and planning activities/capabilities. Knowledge needed to lead a world class system issue/remediation workstream and implement change effectively, with best-in-class accuracy/efficiency.
Represents the RR CoE as the business technical lead on company projects/workstreams. Owns or has direct oversight on all technical business requirements handed off to IT for configuration changes initiated by the RR CoE or extended stakeholder projects.
Forges a seamless relationship with planning SME’s, ensuring planning needs are fully understood and planning capabilities are fully supported. Aligns on all proof-of-concept testing, UAT testing, push to prod activities, project cutover activities and training, ensuring no lost time in production environment.
Forges a seamless relationship with IT, ensuring business needs are being represented and communicated accurately at all times. Leads or has direct business oversight over system improvements workstreams. This includes the overall workplan including design discussions/tradeoffs, proof of concept testing, sprint testing, regression testing, UAT, training, cutover and hyper care, as needed.
Responsible for partnering with IT and Planning SME’s to design a world class SIT/UAT process focused on improving efficiency/accuracy on all changes to the planning system, including incorporating the roll out of new out-of-box capabilities with minimal effort.
Partners with IT and Kinaxis CoE to resolve high priority planning needs with out-of-box solutions.
Owns the Advanced Planning Toolbox, a formal document highlighting all advanced planning capabilities currently deployed, including control mechanisms, behaviors and demonstrated use case examples to be highlighted during planner community of practice presentations.
Owns the annual update on all technical training documents including offline Single Point Lessons, in-system task flows, workbook help, worksheet help
Owns the annual update on all business relevant system generating alerts.
Represents the Rapid Response Center of Excellence in multiple meetings / workstreams
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills Required:
Undergraduate degree in supply chain, life science, business administration and/or engineering or equivalent required
Minimum 10+ years managing supply planning operations for a reputed global BioPharma or Consumer Product company utilizing world class planning and execution processes and supported by ERP and Advanced Planning Systems (experience with SAP suites and Kinaxis Rapid Response software)
Experience in implementing world class, global supply chain planning processes and tools management through deployment of global advanced planning and scheduling systems as well as performance management
Experience in working in a fast paced, reputed, global pharmaceutical/Biotechnology or Consumer company organized in a matrix structure
Strong Project Management capability skills
Demonstrated Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement skill set and delivery.
Preferred:
Good understanding and exposure to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory requirements
Thorough understanding of and experience with some aspect of technical operations; interest and demonstrated ability to learn across several disciplines (manufacturing, quality, supply chain, technical development, regulatory, patient experience, finance, operations, etc.)
Personal Competencies Desired/Required :
Demonstrated experience in developing, aligning, socializing, monitoring, adapting, and delivering on complex deliverables in dynamic, rapidly changing environments.
Interprets business challenges and recommends best practices-based solutions
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills at all levels of the organization; excellent presentation skills, both material creation and delivery
Additional professional and personal requirements include:
Executing for Results: Maintains high standards of performance for himself/herself and follows through on commitments. Demonstrates integrity, conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure.
Leading / Supporting Cross Functional Teams: Ability to lead strong, diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives and talents.
Building Relationships: Establishes credibility and earns respect with a diverse set of cross functional stakeholders. Is highly articulate and makes arguments in a clear and compelling manner. Can achieve win-win outcomes in difficult situations.
Why you should apply
You will help patients in their fight against serious diseases
You will be part of a company that encourages excellence and innovation, respects diversity, develops leaders and values its employees.
You’ll get a competitive salary and a great benefits package including, but not only, an annual bonus, pension contribution, family health insurance, 27 days annual leave, access to BMS Cruiserath on-site gym and life assurance.
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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com . Visit careers.bms.com/ (https://careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility) eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.
BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Req Number: R1581099
Updated: 2024-05-19 01:51:30.782 UTC
Location: Dublin-IRL
Bristol Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, gender expression, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by law.