Job Description
Skills Alliance are partnering with a global pharmaceutical company during a period of significant change across their Global Supply Chain & Strategy Organisation. In this role, you will work partner with a wide range of colleagues from across Global Supply Chain, Operations and IT to establish and mobilise a Risk Sensing Programme. You will develop a project charter and establish clear project milestones across several workstreams. These activities include the delivery of an RFP and aligning stakeholders on a preferred technology vendor. Further milestones include implementation of a new external risk management software, the standardization of internal processes, and the creation of a new operating model centred around a CoE (centre of excellence) resources. You will coordinate the activities of the team to achieve targets, while managing stakeholders and communications.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong project management experience – supply chain advantageous + Risk Sensing experience
- Demonstrable project management skills in a global, matrix organization.
- understanding macro-level risk and sub-tier visibility
- Experience of change management plan and developing suitable approaches to address.
- Strong stakeholder management experience
- Strong communication, collaboration and relationship building skills, with the ability to influence others to senior levels to achieve shared objectives.
- Ability to present / build presentations to leadership level audiences
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with ability to advise and engage teams to achieve strategic objectives.
- Experience of working in global organisation where partners and project teams are culturally and geographically dispersed.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Familiarity with supply chain management processes.
- Formal qualifications in change and/or project management.
- Familiarity with Agile & Waterfall methodology delivery.
- Familiarity with risk management concepts is a plus.
This is will be an initial 6 month contract (likely to extend), under a hybrid working model (X3 days per week onsite, X2 days remote) based on Macclesfield site and options to go inside or outside IR35. Rate between £450-£550 per day.
Interested? Please apply should your skill-set match the above, and I will be in touch to discuss next steps!
