MS&T Program Manager

Join Orifarm and take charge of building effective project management processes!

We are looking for an experienced professional from the pharmaceutical industry, who can effectively manage project plans across multiple entities and lead cross-functional processes within our own sites and supply chain. Furthermore, the MS&T program manager will be responsible for facilitating clear communication across teams and functions, providing support for various internal and external stakeholders, and drive change initiatives as well as collaboration on development projects across Orifarm.

This position plays a key role in coordinating activities in terms of MS&T Program Management Office (PMO) and Supply Point Office (SPO) and will be part of a newly created function in Manufacturing Science & Technology (MS&T).

About the job 

As a MS&T Program Manager, you will be responsible for managing the projects, maintaining project databases, as well as ensuring effective communication and timely achievement of milestones. You will collaborate with Supplier Relationship Management functions and manufacturing sites, providing support, coordinating project resources, reporting, and tracking. Additionally,  you will contribute to the development of portfolio processes and drive continuous improvement.

Among your key responsibilities in the role, there will be:

• Maintaining portfolio database, resource management, gathering and integrating MS&T project milestone updates, consolidation and assessment requests to the Supply Point Committee (SPC), presenting updates, dashboards, overviews, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs),  including preparation of new project proposals
• Coordinates project resource reporting and tracking in MS&T Portfolio Database including facilitation of a monthly workload/capacity bottleneck analysis process.
• Takes care for execution of the SPC decisions e.g., rejected, on hold, under evaluation, escalated, endorsed and ensures they are directed to the corresponding next step.
• Contributes to global portfolio scenarios and recommendations for optimization, supports preparation of the semi-annual budget cycles and annual strategic plans,  in collaboration with the Site Heads, Director MS&T and Business Partners
• Contributes to the preparation of the semi-annual budget cycles and annual strategic plans, consolidates overall performance on adherence to time, expenditures (OPEX and CAPEX), resources and savings as primary point of contact with MS&T director, site heads and finance business partners.
• Contributes to the continuous improvement of the portfolio processes
• Communicates on project status, decisions, prioritizations, and delivering presentations to stakeholders and partners.

Who are you?

We imagine that you have a degree in Science, Engineering or related fields combined with at least 6 years of relevant experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, especially in generics and OTC, preferably also in CHC.

In the MS&T Program Manager role, you will interact with various internal stakeholders and external service providers or product suppliers, and therefore, we expect high level of ability to influence across functions and collaborate across different cultures.

Among the key characteristics of a successful candidate we expect:

• Experience in the Pharma industry, in Project Portfolio management role.
• Demonstrated experience in Portfolio management.
• Demonstrated experience in program/project management (time, cost, resource, scope, stakeholder and communication management area’s).
• Working knowledge and experience in planning and reporting tools.
• Practical knowledge of risk management (identification, evaluation, mitigation) and understanding on impact on projects.

Who are we?

You will part of Product Supply organization, where we are ambitious and nurture an open and trustful atmosphere, and where we are eager to achieve our objectives and to celebrate success together. Our working environment could be characterized by an employee saying: “It feels exciting to work in an environment of entrepreneurial spirit surrounded by experienced leaders and colleagues, while the founders of the company are taking good care of their business and their employees”.

You will be closely involved with functional and cross-functional teams:

• Working in cross-functional team with Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Strategic Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance (QA) and Orifarm manufacturing sites to effectively, transfer and maintain processes and products from a technological point of view.
• Driving process and productivity improvements in manufacturing processes in line with regulatory requirements and business objectives.

About Orifarm

Everyone should have access to modern medicine. High costs or lack of access to pharmaceuticals should never impact our possibility to receive treatment or relief and live a healthy life. In Orifarm, we aim to bring healthy days by making modern healthcare a better deal for the people and the societies we serve. Working towards our vision, we create access to affordable high-quality pharmaceuticals and healthcare products by challenging markets and always seeking new opportunities. With our core values paving the way, we always act responsibly and constantly with our customers in the center of our attention. And everything we do is driven by our sole purpose:

For as many as possible, as healthy a day as possible.

Our history goes back to 1994 where Orifarm was founded in Denmark by Hans and Birgitte Bøgh-Sørensen. Since then, Orifarm has grown from a small nine-person company into an international company operating globally in 13 countries. Today, Orifarm is Europe's largest parallel importer of pharmaceuticals and Denmark's largest supplier of pharmaceuticals with more than 2,200 employees.

We operate within seven different business areas: Over the Counter (OTC), Consumer Healthcare, Generics, Promotional Rx, Unlicensed Medicines, Parallel Import and Clinical Trials Supplies (CTS). Further, we focus heavily on new business opportunities and synergistic M&A to expand our offerings

We offer

At Orifarm, we know our growth comes from the growth of our employees. We are an ambitious organization with an entrepreneurial culture, and we celebrate can-do attitudes, smarts and hearts. Our secret to success? Valuing how different skillsets join forces to make our journey happen. Whether you play a direct or an indirect part of fulfilling our purpose, you get to contribute and use your skills, personal as well as professional. Indeed, at Orifarm your personal growth journey is shaped only by your contribution towards making healthy days for as many as possible.

We regard our feedback culture as a fundamental element in the individual employee’s opportunities for learning and development. And when we have good results, every employee, including student workers, are a part of our bonus scheme.

Job Location

The MS&T Program Manager position will be located in Orifarm headquarters in Odense,

Need further information?

If you need further information about the job, please contact Elzbieta Twardowska, MS&T Director, at  etward@orifarm.com or Katarzyna Piechowicz-Paulinek, Director, HRBP at kapie@orifarm.com

We are often looking for new employees to help us grow and therefore, we may have other interesting opportunities for you. Follow us on LinkedIn to receive updates on our business activities and job opportunities: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/

Application deadline 

April 30th, although interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.