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The Position
Head of Materials Management
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
That’s what makes us Roche.
This leadership role is responsible for the strategic oversight and operational excellence of all material management activities within the Manufacturing Unit, ensuring the fulfillment of market demands and objectives set by the company. This includes, managing the scheduling of executable production operations, ensuring stringent cGMP compliance across all warehouse and logistics activities, and overseeing all procurement functions. The incumbent will drive efficiency, optimize inventory, foster strong supplier relationships, and contribute to the overall strategic planning of the site and network, ensuring seamless support for production operations.
The Opportunity
Manufacturing Operations & Logistics Management:
- Oversee the scheduling of executable production operations, ensuring alignment with manufacturing demands and resource availability.
Direct and optimize all warehouse and logistics activities, including receiving, storage, internal movement, and dispatch of materials, strictly adhering to cGMP standards.
Ensure robust material flow to support continuous and efficient manufacturing processes.
Procurement & Supplier Management:
- Provide strategic oversight of local procurement activities for manufacturing materials, site services, and capital purchases.
- Drive contract negotiations with suppliers to secure favorable terms, quality, and delivery.
Develop and nurture strong, strategic relationships with key suppliers, fostering collaboration and risk mitigation.
Partner and coordinate with other Roche legal entities in the country for integrated procurement strategies and activities.
SAP Master Data & Analytics:
Provide strategic oversight of SAP Master Data management, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and effectiveness for material management processes.
Leverage data analytics to identify trends, optimize inventory levels, and improve decision-making across material management functions.
Supply Chain Planning & Execution:
Support commercial supply chain planning business processes, ensuring commercial supply and inventory plans are executable and communicated effectively to the Manufacturing Unit.
Lead and oversee the monitoring, analysis, and reporting of supply and inventory positions for the Manufacturing Unit, providing insights and recommendations to leadership.
Function as an escalation point for issues related to purchased materials or transferred materials from internal and external sources, driving timely resolution.
Strategic Planning & Collaboration:
Partner with Global Planning and other site Leadership Team members to assess production plan feasibility, evaluate production scenarios, and optimize manufacturing schedules.
Collaborate with Strategic Planning to communicate the Manufacturing Unit’s capacity and assess capability for long-range plans, contributing to network-wide strategic initiatives.
Who you are
You should have a minimum 17 years of related working experience or equivalent with Degree in supply chain, logistics, science, business, engineering or other relevant discipline or equivalent. Graduate or higher-level Degree is preferred.
You should have at least 6 or more years’ of people management experience in managing direct and indirect workforce (>20 individuals).
You should have APICS, CPIM OR CIRM certification.
You should possess expert knowledge of supply chain management industry best practices and academic principles, practices and standards relevant to the pharmaceutical and cGMP environment as well as pharmaceutical materials management, logistics, purchasing and supply chain systems.
Ability to strategically collaborate across functions and geographies.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
