Associate Director, S&OP Process Owner - Europe Therapeutics

Reporting to the Director, Global S&OP Governance & Process Owner. This role will drive the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process design and discipline including Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE), and champion continuous improvement initiatives with the Europe Therapeutics organization.  As a fundamental cross-functional integrated planning process, S&OP aligns demand and supply, playing a crucial role in achieving peak business performance, while S&OE focuses on short-term execution support. This position requires fostering collaboration and partnership across Global Operations, Commercial and Operations & Commercial Finance teams, thereby strengthening strategic decision-making capabilities. This role will also be tasked with governing and ensuring S&OP and S&OE process adherence while spearheading transformational changes through detailed documentation and effective implementation to enhance procedural maturity. By instilling a culture of continuous improvement, this role is essential in driving sustainable change to meet and exceed business objectives. Responsibilities • Develop, implement, and drive process adherence of S&OP/S&OE between Operations and specified Commercial and Finance Area senior-leadership and affiliates. • Drive governance of S&OP/S&OE processes and manage cross-functional interdependencies to address governance, compliance, deviations and issues.   Create and implement an audit schedule for the respective Commercial Area to ensure adherence to guidance and processes throughout the S&OP cycle, including Demand Review, Supply Review, Reconciliation, and Executive S&OP as well as S&OE.  Establish best practices and standard templates based on the segmented portfolio. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the S&OP/ S&OE processes by identifying challenges, implementing best practices, and leveraging leading class methodologies, technologies and data analytics to optimize planning and decision making. • Partner, negotiate and influence without authority to senior-level stakeholders to drive alignment and support S&OP/S&OE implementation across Commercial, Finance, and Operations. • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to strategize business objectives and develop a continuous improvement roadmap that aligns processes with these goals, while coordinating with the Change Management team to ensure smooth implementation and execution. • Build and maintain strong cross-functional stakeholder relationships by effectively influencing without direct authority, while collaborating with the technology team on system improvements that drive simplification and efficiency through automation. • Collaborate with the Training and Change Management team to develop training and support materials and conduct training sessions as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) when needed. • Facilitate performance metric development and monitor Commercial Area of responsibility, identifying areas of improvement • Bachelor’s degree in preferred fields such as business, operations management, finance, science or engineering, or related degree. • Experience in Pharmaceutical or Operations preferred. • Proven experience fostering collaboration across cross-functional organizations while influencing without authority. • Experience in formal S&OP and, or S&OE processes. • Strong analytics skills, identifying trends, and making informed decisions.  Ability to solve complex programs, develop action plans and drive continuous improvement. • Effective leadership with executive presence and proven presentation and communication (oral & written) skills. Proven ability to communicate and deliver results, actions, decisions, and concerns with little direction or supervision in a t