Start date: 1st March 2026
Duration: 6-month contract
Location: Remote anywhere in Europe (with occasional expensed travel to Poland, Slovenia and Turkey)
Rate: Open to negotiations – flexible budget per day
Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled SAP EWM consultant with PM skills to deliver services in the SAP EWM area.
Resource must be able as well to work on project operational tasks and deliverables as a solution design manager for own warehouse and being responsible for delivering them according to project timelines.
Resource will be working closely with the LDC SCM Design Lead, LDC Manufacturing Design Lead and the team of Logistics / Manufacturing Design Managers together to help to structure the upcoming activities according to the workload in the team.
Responsibilities
- Act as the Business Solution Manager responsible for Logistics W&D own warehouse in close collaboration with the GPO (Global Process Owners), Business Champions, Functional IT Experts and the LDC Adopt counterpart.
- Responsible to elaborate deliverables as per the project plan during conceptual design, build and adopt phase. Below is a list of such deliverables (not exhaustive)
- Ensure a proper design of the solution to set up and integrate Novartis’ own warehouses in the upcoming LDC releases.
- Establish or update business standard operating procedures.
- Review and adopt, if necessary, the training material and working instructions
- Execute business screening of IT solutions and testing of solution(s)
- Support and contribute to data migration in Logistics W&D own warehouse area.
- Align and agree on integration of relevant processes and their respective system solution(s) within Logistics W&D e.g. in the area commercial operations, Intercompany Order Management and Direct Procurement
- Ensures that user requirements and functional specifications are consistent with global / local processes.
- Contribute to master data preparation for Screening, Testing and cut over.
- Supports the adopt team to ensure proper go live of the upcoming releases.
- Secure business reporting requirements in Logistics W&D together with the Reporting and Analytics team
- Verifying the existing core model for own warehouse based on SAP EWM together with the Global business process owner for Logistics at Novartis and preparing proposal for areas for improvement.
- Follow up on cross-functional topics e.g., staging with manufacturing and proposing together a solution design that is aligned with the global process owners.
- Taking over project tasks in conceptual design, build, UAT testing & training, cutover & hyper care phase according to need within the team.
- Various years of experience in Supply Chain working in logistics within the own warehouse area in a manufacturing side ideally in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Several years of experience of SAP implementation projects and deployments of the SAP EWM solution, ideally in a team lead role.
- Various years’ Experience in implementing own warehouse setups and understanding to translate process requirements into solution and being able to verify if the solution meets the business requirements.
- Experience in integration with Manufacturing execution processes and systems e.g., MES system.
- Committed against timelines within the given time frame in a fast-paced project environment.
- Being able to lead people and advise the team.
- High degree of teamwork and quality orientation
- Ability to operate in a global matrix environment.
- Capability to moderate workshops with business champions to work on requirements and challenge them if required.
- Being able to talk and present to higher management within LDC and outside of LDC, to retrieve guidance and force decisions.
