Senior Manager, Demand Forecasting & Supply Chain Analytics

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Position Summary

The GPS (Global Product Development and Supply) Analytics team is an organization within the BMS Business Insights and Technology (BI&T) Function focused on partnering with the BMS GPS group to answer key business questions that will drive important decisions using data and advanced analytics. These questions span a broad range of areas from Global Supply Chain, through Manufacturing Operations, Quality and Business Strategy.

The Sr Manager, Demand Forecasting & Supply Chain Analytics is an individual contributor position and will play a leading role in establishing analytics capabilities for the Supply Chain organization, GPS and the broader BI&T organization. This person will enable the Supply Chain organization to make informed business decisions using all phases of the analytical life cycle (Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive).

This is an ideal role for someone looking to achieve two outcomes in their next career move:

further strengthen and enhance their analytical skills and apply them to solving major challenges in biopharmaceutical supply chain. strengthen their biopharmaceutical business acumen by managing a key BMS business process, end-to-end demand planning.

We are seeking exceptional candidates for this unique opportunity. The right person will need to be comfortable diving in deep on analytics while also facilitating a critical qualitative business process.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting GSC Priority Business Decisions

• Proactively develops and maintains an understanding of GSC priorities, critical issues, and value levers, in close collaboration with GSC teams.

• Collaborates directly with stakeholders to develop the team’s analytical book of work that addresses priorities.

• Leads and delivers on multiple analytics projects, from charter to completion.

• Meets or exceeds agreed upon analytics deliverables and timing.

• Communicates complex analysis in a manner appropriate for facilitating GSC decisions.

• Supports a culture of analytics and fact-based decision making within GSC, in partnership with stakeholders.

Building and Enhancing Analytics Capabilities

• Works closely with the rest of our team to understand our existing tools and processes and avoids building new tools or data models when existing solutions already exist.

• Collaborates with subject matter experts from across the business to design, establish and maintain foundational data pipelines, models and business facing reports and dashboards.

• Designs, develops, and implements a broad array of analytics that solve complex problems in a computationally efficient and statistically valid manner.

• Makes complex analytical solutions simple enough for GSC teams to understand and use and drives uptake to engrain analytics solutions into standard business processes.

• Proactively identifies opportunities to further apply automation, analytics and data solutions and works with stakeholders and the team to prioritize projects with the biggest potential benefit to the business.

• Builds partnerships and manages the process for deploying predictive and prescriptive models to operations.

• Manages planned and ad hoc analytics requests, ensuring consistent quality and timeliness in delivery to business stakeholders.

• Supports best practice adoption across the team, applying appropriate levels of technical capability, standardization, automation, and functional area expertise.

• Leads standardization of analytics and process methodologies within GP