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Senior Director, ERP Programme - Deployment Delivery Lead

GlaxoSmithKline, Holborn, Camden

Senior Director, ERP Programme - Deployment Delivery Lead

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GlaxoSmithKline, Holborn, Camden

  • Full time
  • Contract
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 days ago, 2 Nov | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: c293df0d2a864680af4305d51cee294d

Full Job Description

  • To achieve the outcome of the "ERP Together" programme, S4/HANA ERP solution will be deployed across GSK's Pharma and Vaccines businesses to 300+ legal entities including 80+ commercial markets, 35+ manufacturing sites, R&D facilities & pilot plants, all shared financial services, and additionally GSKs customer, supplier and logistics partners.
  • Design and ownership of the strategic deployment roadmap, methodology, and drive subsequent delivery of ERP/S4 transformation for GSK Tech.
  • Define and own budget for deployment - expected circa £250M-£350M over 4-5 years.
  • Delivery of the multi-year deployment plan to budget, on time, and managing any risk to go-live through solid governance processes (SteerCo, Phase gates, Go/No-Go).
  • Programme leadership of the wave deployments, including line management of Deployment management resources (Wave delivery leads, project managers, cutover managers)., Drive the deployments to be ready to cutover on time, by holding tech and business teams to account to deliver to plan, and through management of dependencies across the programme and other GSK initiatives.
  • Act as a point of escalation for the deployment workstreams, to ensure support and alignment from other tech delivery functions.
  • Appointment, and line management, accountability of wave lead resources and other delivery team (project managers, cutover leads). Ensure the timely onboarding of tech deployment resources to support the deployment phase is managed through functional towers and via the strategic partners..
  • Lead engagement with external parties e.g. System and Business integration partner accountable for supporting the deployment delivery activities.
  • Accountable for driving regular communications on the delivery programme, through a mixture of face-to-face and virtual interactions, plus via social media tools.
  • Manage senior stakeholders across tech and business functions, including Commercial, Global Supply Chain, Global Support Functions and R&D.
  • Ensure readiness with all compliance requirements including GxP, Sarbanes Oxley and all other regulatory / security requirements.
  • Ensure the transition of business operations through "interim states" where go-live does not allow the end-state solution to be fully deployed until all relevant entities have jointly cutover to the new solution.
  • Continuous improvement mindset to drive efficiency in the deployment and building learnings into the later waves.
  • Ensure handover and smooth transition to BaU operations (Tech and Business), We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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  • Master or Bachelor Degree Level in Business & Information Technology
  • Demonstrates functional expertise and general intellectual capacity and the ability to learn.
    • Previous Experience Required
  • Experience of driving large complex transformation programmes across multiple geographies
  • Leadership across a complexed matrixed environment
  • Leadership of large global diverse teams and cultures
  • Experience of building relationships, and holding external service partners to account
  • Operating in a highly pressurised and business critical environment

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    • GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology). Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.