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The Senior Analytics Design Lead

Luton
4 days ago
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Senior Analytics Design Lead

S/4 Hana - £650 - Luton - Hybrid - Outsied IR35

The Senior Analytics Design Lead will lead a team of Senior business analysts, providing them with oversight, helping them to prioritise, and creating best practices and guidelines to ensure they deliver high-quality work at pace.

The Senior Analytics Design Lead will be responsible for designing new operating models for Operations analytics (network and supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, quality etc).

The Senior Analytics Design Lead leadership will empower your team to work with some senior customers, so that they can make decisions at pace.

Success will be when you see Operations making better decisions, reducing risk, reducing costs and accelerating their processes, because of your team’s work

The Senior Analytics Design Lead  must have: 

Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of ERP analytics in pharma operations. Experience in designing, building and testing of the analytics solution in SAP

Team leadership management (task management) / experience

Experience in working with large and sophisticated data sets in commonly used BI tools like SAP Analytics Cloud, Qlik & PowerBI.

Strong drive

Ability to lead across geographies and cultures.

A strong ability to convey complex information through analytics, catering from Top-Floor to Shop-Floor.

Desirable Skills

Experience in one or more full S/4 HANA implementation cycle/s in Analytics using Embedded Analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP B/W4 HANA, SAP Datasphere.

Considerable experience and exposure to standard operations processes e.g. network and supply chain, production to dispatch door; integrated clinical supply management;  

Leading multiple teams across geographies.

Regulatory experience, e.g. GxP, SOx.

Familiarity with data science concepts and use cases in Operations.

Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience.

UX experience.

Experience in large-scale, complex & multi-year projects.

Workshop Management.

Osirian Consulting is committed to working with our clients to promote equality and diversity in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and all sections of the community, and will never discriminate on the basis of race, gender, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually. If you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.

Osirian Consulting is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role

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