Future Ready Planning Lead
Lead transformation of global supply planning across Pharma business to support ambition of best in class performance. Work streams covering process review, standardisation, technology enablers and operating model. Project team of 20 and budget of £15m.• Led diagnosis, design, governance and execution of supply planning for global pharmaceuticals delivering 25% headcount reduction and £22m savings through productivity improvements and arbitrage.• Initiated collaboration and engaged external consultants to validate the operating model design against external benchmarks confirming the target organisational sizing and timeframe. • Drove identification and delivery of technology enablers, including leveraging existing ERP technology, introducing an innovative cognitive decision-making platform, which delivered against productivity targets removing 15% of routine manual work for teams. • Implemented new operating model for supply planning including: -o Leadership of recruitment; training and onboarding of new resources into a hub in Poland o Standardisation of core processes, change management and leadership capabilities in the hub.