Job description
Conexus is working with a top tier consulting firm who are looking a Senior Manager with preferable a Life Sciences background who is knowledgeable in one of the leading Supply Chain software's such as Blue Yonder, 09, SAP or Kinaxis.
Their approach is built around elevating business understanding of the aspirations and unique abilities of customers and employees and by building these relationships based on trust and value.
Responsibilities:
Their approach is built around elevating business understanding of the aspirations and unique abilities of customers and employees and by building these relationships based on trust and value.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the overall delivery setup and execution of mid-sized, globally distributed teams
- Partner with Client and other internal/ external stakeholders to drive effective adoption of best practices, deployment of processes, methodologies and tools to drive deliver engagement
- Manage internal and external dependencies for the project or program
- Manage timely and successful delivery of the project working with cross-functional teams to manage risks, and measure and report on progress.
- Manage the Stakeholder communications , Status reporting and Change request
- Contribute to research, design and writing of articles/whitepapers and participate as a team member in collateral development.
- Support business development activities in the form of gathering best practices for RFI/RFP responses and writing proposals, developing service offerings, training and knowledge management
- Strong hands on IT project / program management experience from inception to closure with globally distributed team in Pharma & Life Sciences Industry
- A solid understanding of the project management with experience in Supply Chain functions across one or more of the following areas - Omnichannel fulfilment, Order management, Supply Chain Planning, Warehouse Management.
- Extensive Project Management experience in Agile frameworks like SAFe and scrum-based delivery models preferred in addition to waterfall model
- Experience of delivering one or more fixed time, fixed price or SLA based managed services engagements
- Direct client facing role as part of a development organization
- Knowledge of two or more effort and cost estimation methodologies/ frameworks
- Direct and indirect responsibility of 10 or more people as part of a cross-functional team comprising of business analysts, developers, testers and other support functions
- Strong commercial acumen i.e. Pricing models, Forecast, Budgeting, Delivery P&L etc.,
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- PMP / PRINCE II certification is a plus
- Consulting background/experience will be significantly helpful to operate as part of our domain consulting team