Responsibilities:

• Taking over responsibility within the global Purchasing Governance organization mainly for SAP S/4HANA Deployment.
• Responsible as regional process specialist (RPS) to support SAP S/4HANA deployment in different project phases (e.g. fit to standard analysis, integration tests, process validation, data cleansing, data migration, go-live, Hypercare).
• Support Deployment findings (localization topics) and support the implementation of the necessary changes for the new SAP S/4HANA template and ensure Change Management during deployment.
• Coordination of the purchasing team members within respective Plant Implementation Team(s) regarding data management processes, tools, communication, training management processes, testing management processes, tools, test case creation, etc.
• Conduct integration test activities.
• Training of Local Teams: train local project teams on the new ERP system.
• In charge of regional testing management processes to support local/site(s) testing strategy based on regional team(s) testing plans, test scope, and test completion reports according to the specific project milestone plant.
• Manage optimization requests from the plants in alignment with the global Template team.
• Monitor and support Business requirements for all sites within the region and provide required support to all plants within the respective region (e.g. support for local key users, purchasing specific projects and requests).
• Act as 2nd level support for Japan local users in purchasing.
• Coordination of periodic I-tests referring to the modules.

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or PhD in Nutrition & Dietetics, Food Science, Pharmacy, or any related field.
• At least 12 years of work experience in nutrition and pharmaceutical companies and >5 years’ of work experience in managerial level.
• Experience at the regional level is a plus.
• Proven leadership and team management skills.
• Collaboration Lead with people and able to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Excellent analytical, communication Skills (Oral, Listening, Presentation) & interpersonal/negotiation skills.
• Significant experience with well-established KOL & Medical Network in the Pediatric Nutrition category.
• Knowledge of relevant regulations and compliance standards.