Senior Manager - Technical Operations

Senior Manager- Technical OperationsTake your strategic consultancy experience in-house

Are you looking to transition from a strategic consultancy to an industry position?
Use your experience with supply chain and manufacturing to influence the strategic development of TechOps within Ferring Pharmaceuticals. In this role, your output will be featured at the highest levels of the company, allowing you to influence business direction and decisions.

Ferring + you You will join our Strategy & Business Performance team within TechOps, where we develop, manufacture, and supply high-quality products to patients worldwide so they can live better lives. Strategy & Business Performance is a small team that works with Global PMO, manufacturing strategy, and risk management.

You will collaborate closely with our Head of Strategy & Business Performance, Ingo Kauffmann, who is based in Switzerland along with the rest of your team.

"I would describe my team as a talent incubator, and I take pride in educating people. Things change quickly, so we adapt and adjust. You might not know everything about pharmaceutical manufacturing, but you have a strong strategic basis – and I look forward to our brainstorming sessions." - Ingo Kauffmann

Your day at Ferring While you can expect some travel, your primary work location will be our International PharmaScience Center (IPC) in Copenhagen. From here, you will build essential relationships with your stakeholders across various functions, including our Global Manufacturing network, Global Engineering, Supply Network Operations, Manufacturing Technology & Science, and TechOps Quality.

Your core responsibility will be to collect data, run business cases, and translate your findings into actionable assessments and presentations for, e.g., the TechOps leadership team. With a focus on strategic planning and performance management, your key tasks will include (but are not limited to):

• Liaising with TechOps senior management and leading workstreams for the development of TechOps manufacturing strategy
• Developing “make or buy” analyses along with competitive analyses to define our competitive positioning
• Recommending investments and leading the review with the financial team, site GMs, functional directors, and business leads
• Building rigorous, fact-based, quantitative analyses to support business and functional leaders in translating strategies into actionable and quantitative plans
• Developing and maintaining comprehensive performance management systems to track and report on key operational metrics
• Creating and implementing standardized reporting processes to ensure consistent and accurate data collection across the organization

Behind our innovation – there’s you To succeed in this position, you will need excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Your people skills carry as much weight as your analytic abilities, as you will need to reach out to and connect with the right people to extract the data necessary for your assessments.

We are also looking for you to bring:

• Experience with strategic consultancy within e.g., supply chain or manufacturing
• Solid experience working with senior management in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• A demonstrated ability to work in a cross-functional and international business environment
• Experience running business cases, prioritizing data, and translating your assessments into strong PowerPoint presentations with a clear storyline
• An intrinsic motivation to continuously educate yourself and the ability to pick up new information fast by creating connections and asking the right questions

People come first at Ferring You can look forward to joining a culture of empowerment, where speaking up is valued, and growth and development are constant. We succeed by working together, and our diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives enable us to find solutions to even the most challenging problems.

We also offer an inclusive support package that provides equal and accessible policies for all employees who wish to start their family journey. This ensures a global standard, irrespective of location and role, including parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents (available for all employees after the first year of employment).

Behind our purpose – there’s you If our mission and your vision are aligned, please apply. Kindly include a few lines regarding your motivation for applying in the CV or a cover letter. Please note that we review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match.

If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Mette Markussen at [email protected].

We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this position. Candidates must be located in the Oresund region or willing to relocate at their own expense.

Note to agencies: This search is being managed by Ferring’s Talent Acquisition team. Kindly do not send us unsolicited profiles.

At Ferring Pharmaceuticals, we help people around the world build families and live better lives. We are entrepreneurial and innovative, with a global team focused on scientific advances in the areas of reproductive and women’s health, gastroenterology, and urology. Ferring + You is all about working together and sharing ideas so that we can bring science to life for patients around the world. Read more at ferring.com.

Location:
Ferring Denmark