Strategy & Transformation Manager F/m/x

Nemera is one of the leading global manufacturers of complex drug delivery systems for the pharmaceutical industry, offering to patients a broad product portfolio which includes inhalation devices, injection devices, nasal and dermal pumps and ophthalmic delivery devices. Nemera has built very long lasting, strong relationships with the leading global pharmaceutical companies globally by providing high quality development, industrialization, and manufacturing services. Nemera develops and manufactures its own IP product platforms but also offers also fully custom developments and contract manufacturing.

Nemera is pursuing a bold growth ambition for the coming years, requiring a robust and well executed industrial strategy to evolve our Operations (6 plants in 5 countries worldwide + central functions) and deliver on this ambition.

We are recruiting a **Strategy & Transformation Manager **F/M/X** to join our Central Operations Teams, based in our headquarters in Lyon (France), to support this effort.

Under the responsibility of the Industrial Strategy and Operations Transformation Director,
- You will be in charge of the formalization of Nemera’s industrial strategy, providing guidelines and analyses to support key strategic decisions required to secure our growth: industrial capacity build-up, specialization strategy for our manufacturing sites, new business allocation, make-or-buy, development of new capabilities
- You will support the animation of our Operations Transformation roadmap, with central teams and with our 6 manufacturing sites, reinforcing our communication and change management
- In particular, you will coordinate the transformation roadmap of our brand-new manufacturing site in Szczecin (Poland), in close cooperation with local teams, to ensure successful production ramp-up and teams upskilling
- You will lead integration of future acquisitions (M&A), on Operations scope

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:
You will be responsible for the following main missions:

- Structure and formalize Nemera’s industrial strategy
- Drive alignment of all stakeholders (leadership teams at group and plants level, operations teams) on proposed strategy
- Prepare analyses and tools required to support key decisions regarding Nemera industrial strategy definition and execution
- Review and update industrial strategy in order to reflect changes in business context
- Manage ad-hoc projects related to our industrial strategy implementation, involving both central Operations teams and manufacturing sites
- Collaborate with our new Polish site (SZC) leadership and management team to successfully execute the plant transformation roadmap (focused on production ramp up, teams upskilling and deployment of Nemera Production Standards)
- Ensure compliance of our SZC operations to Nemera standards
- Support steering of SZC transformation (progress tracking, managing interdependencies across streams / projects, monitoring risks & mitigation plans, escalating roadblocks and facilitating issue resolution)
- Define and execute communication plan to support our operations transformation roadmap

You will be also the privileged link / interface with:

- Operations Transformation initiative leaders, both in central teams and in manufacturing sites
- Group Marketing & Strategy, to ensure alignment of industrial strategy to Nemera strategic orientations

**PROFILE & EXPERIENCE**:
Required experience: Minimum 6 to 8 years:

- With a Master’s degree or equivalent (Bac+5), you have a dual industrial and strategy / management consulting experience
- As senior consultant or engagement manager, you have contributed to or managed several projects of (a) definition and/or implementation of industrial strategies and (b) implementation of transformation programs
- You have a deep understanding of operations in a manufacturing company
- You have demonstrated your ability to drive change and align stakeholders, from leadership to shopfloor positions
- You master management of projects in multi-cultural environments
- Experience in operations in the pharmaceutical industry and work experience in a foreign country would be appreciated

**Profile**:

- Intellectually robust, strong synthesis and quantitative analysis skills
- Enjoying teamwork, at ease in multi-cultural environment
- Pragmatic and results oriented
- Possess excellent interpersonal/communication and presentation skills
- Is able to evaluate plans, actions and decisions based on a wide range of sources
- Listening skills
- Fluent English

This position requires travelling, up to 25% (mostly to our manufacturing sites). We offer the possibility of working from home 2 days per week.

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