CMO Planning Integration Manager

Job Purpose

This is a secondment role with a duration until 28 March 2028. It offers a unique opportunity to shape a globally standardized procurement process and support a major business transformation.

Key Responsibilities

The role will require working in collaboration with other team members within the ERP Evolution program (both internal and external to GSK), including PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), central and site Planning, Direct Procurement and External Supply to design and deliver a robust CMO planning process and solution with particular responsibility for:

• Contribute to the development of the future CMO operating model and virtual plant design, defining business requirements and contributing to S/4HANA design decisions for external manufacturing, batch-level execution, inventory visibility, stock ownership, and planning integration
• Support definition and harmonization of ways of working across Global Planning, Site Planning, Manufacturing, and External Supply.
• Cover core process areas including net requirements planning, purchase requisition and purchase order management, supplier commitments, inventory replenishment, supply exceptions, capacity reviews, new product introductions, product transfers, regulatory changes, and lifecycle planning.
• Understand and articulate business requirements, assess design options, and recommend solutions aligned with the global template.
• Translate agreed decisions into clear process designs, functional requirements, data requirements, reporting needs, and solution blueprints.
• Define process data and master-data ownership to support data integrity, compliance, traceability, and effective performance management.
• Partner with the system integrator and business representatives to ensure that workshop decisions are accurately reflected in the solution design.
• Ensure adherence to global ERP Evolution process and solution governance, escalating design decisions and deviations through the appropriate design authority.
• Align Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, and External Supply stakeholders and drive timely issue resolution.
• Define and create test scenarios and test scripts for CMO planning process across Informal Testing, UAT and DIL. Also support and execute UAT and DIL testing for CMO planning activities, including defect triage, resolution tracking and alignment with program test governance.
• Work closely with site planning teams and cluster functions to ensure CMO process design is understood, that local ways of working are assessed and change impacts are captured in the Local Change Action Plans.
• Collaborate with Deployment teams and Global Process Owners to support Change Impact Assessments and the consistent implementation of CMO processes and system designs across sites and program waves, ensuring changes are managed through established governance processes.
• Monitor process performance after implementation and lead continuous improvement while protecting the integrity of the global standard.

Basic Qualifications

• Deep specialist knowledge of CMO planning and execution process and its interaction with other supply chain processes.
• Strong operational experience and functional understanding of CMO process in SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
• Significant experience in supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, external supply, or integrated business planning within a complex or regulated environment.
• Experience working on large-scale global transformation programs, preferably involving process design and SAP implementation.
• Proven ability to define business requirements, evaluate options, design global processes, and deliver sustainable process changes.
• Experience facilitating workshops and managing multifunctional, geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.
• Experience translating business requirements into process, data, control, reporting, and technology specifications.
• Experience supporting testing, deployment, change management, and capability development.

Other Job-Related Skills And Background

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to establish credibility quickly.
• Excellent written and verbal business English.
• Aility to influence without direct authority, broker practical solutions, and resolve cross-functional issues.
• Strong process-governance, risk-assessment, and continuous-improvement capability.Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines, finite resources, ambiguity, and changing priorities.
• Ability to balance local business needs with the adoption and protection of a global standard template.

Work Arrangements

The role is hybrid, requir