Lifesciences Senior Program Lead, ESP
Infosys Consulting - Europe, Spain
Job Description
The position: Senior Program Manager
Senior Principal / Associate Partner
Locations: Germany, Spain, Poland, UK
About Us
Where Innovation meets Excellence.
Be a part of a globally renowned management consulting firm that is on the front-line of industry disruption. We are a mid-size player with an entrepreneurial spirit that works with a market-leading brand in every sector, while our parent organization Infosys is a top-5 powerhouse IT brand that is outperforming the market and experiencing rapid growth.
Our consulting business is annually recognized as one of the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes due to our client innovations, our cultural diversity and dedicated training and career paths we offer to our consultants.
As we look to strengthen our team with top talent that can shape the future for our firm, we seek entrepreneurial-minded individuals that value a highly-diverse culture where differences are embraced, that want to have a voice with top management and that are rewarded for collective achievement. We are committed to fostering an inclusive work culture that inspires everyone to deliver their best!
The Team
The Infosys Consulting Life Sciences vertical focuses on advising pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices companies on continuously rethinking transformation along the value chain to meet contemporary business needs. We drive innovation both through process reengineering and the implementation of best-in-class solutions to a number of high-profile Pharmaceutical clients.
Our life sciences team encompasses some of the industry`s brightest experts who possess a broad set of rich experiences in helping top organizations transform their operations and deliver shareholder value. They are engaged in a number of strategic and operational programs across the top life sciences organizations.
The Life Science practice is successfully embedded within the entire Infosys Group, which enables IC to sell and deliver large scale transformation programs with a specific focus on SAP and S/4 HANA in a pull-through collaboration with delivery capacities on-shore and offshore. We drive innovation by rethinking processes in Ramp;D/Clinical Development, Regulatory/Safety, Commercial, Global Supply Chain and Value amp; Access leveraging digital technologies in Data amp; Analytics, AI, Machine Learning, IOT enabled monitoring, virtual trials and RPA.
The Role
Potential leader of medium-sized S/4HANA transformation programs or co-lead of large S/4HANA transformations in Life Sciences
Responsibility
- Leading and coordinating business development and pre-sales activities, including proposals and responses to Requests for Proposal (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs).
- Shape overall delivery approach and framework for S/4HANA based business transformations during the proposal and the program initiation / Preparation phase.
- Lead mid-size S/4HANA based transformation programs or co-lead large S/4HANA transformation programs.
- During program execution assume overall accountability for program delivery.
- Responsible for the overall integrity and coherence of the program, and for developing and maintaining the program environment to support each individual project within it through the Program Office function. Manage the dependencies and the interfaces between the individual projects, ensuing effective allocation of shared resources.
- Provide guidance to overall program planning and scheduling. Establish project plan and initiate project mobilization by confirming project scope, estimate, resources, organization structure, roles, and responsibilities.
- Provide guidance for setting up overall program governance bodies and management processes.
- Ability to provide guidance to key end-to-end process teams (including infusion of best practice).
- Drive strategic direction and governance related decisions, leading key governance forums including Program Boards; and report program status and progress to Steering Committees.
- Communication and stakeholder management with senior client program, business, and IT leadership.
- Proactively monitor and control execution of the program from the Discover to the Realize phases including though Analyze, Design, Build, Test and Release; managing and mitigating risks to the program’s successful outcome and resolving issues and initiating corrective actions as appropriate.
- Manage cost, timelines, milestones, change control and quality during delivery.
- Facilitate the sourcing, selection and allocation of resources to the program delivery teams.
- Manage internal consulting resources, 3rd party provider resources, and contract resources.
Required Qualifications