Supply Chain Analyst (Project Management)
Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.
Lonza Walkersville is IMMEDIATELY hiring a Supply Chain Analyst / Project Leader to work within end-to-end supply chain processes and the data that support operational results. This Supply Chain Analyst / Project Leader will be accountable for coordinating and executing improvement projects across diverse business groups.
The Supply Chain Analyst / Project Leader will lead or participate on cross functional teams aimed at value improvement initiatives to increase service, reduce cost and risk achieving business and divisional plans. Also, will create and execute methodologies to leverage data to measure performance, model outcomes and generate proposals to achieve desired divisional outcomes.
Key Accountabilities
- Responsible for coordinating data and organizing information within Supply Chain processes and practices.
- Utilizes and compiles data from various systems/repositories (SAP, Power BI,) to meet internal/external reporting needs.
- Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with specific objectives with regular tracking, develop dashboards, interactive visual reports, and data analysis in Power BI
- Maintains reporting documents, files, correspondence, meeting minutes and other appropriate and applicable documents, databases and corresponding logs.
- Manages workloads, deadline requirements, and dedicated resources to meet the needs of internal/external customers with respect to reporting, analysis and ad-hoc data requests.
- Work cross-functionally and leverage various data sources to proactively identify, quantify, and prioritize hypothesis testing experiments to increase identified metrics and practices.
- Proactively identify and report possible process and/or technology improvements.
- Share learnings across teams; present findings and strategy recommendations modeling expected outcomes to Executive Stakeholders.
- Excellent data metrics skills with the ability to prepare, process, analyze and visualize significant amounts of information from multiple data sources while keeping the big picture in mind.
Key Requirements
- High School Diploma/GED required; Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain or Project Management, preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of project management and technical writing experience creating or editing SOPs, writing deviations leading to changing and implementing procedures and tracking for matrixed projects required;
- Must be able to give presentations on demand to facilitate solutions and drive initiatives from data findings through data analysis.
- Must have Project Management experience for oversight and execution for continuous improvement projects.
- Excellent data analysis capabilities to include Excel, SAP query writing, Power BI, data visualization and reporting, preferred.
- Must be able to demonstrate analyzing data to create process maps.
- Must be able to execute and track progress of new or changing procedures for matrixed staff and collaborate with SMEs of cross-functional teams at other sites while acting as the execution on to the Project Management Team.
Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.
Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.