Associate Director, Global Supply Planning Optimization & IBP Transformation

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Our Team, Your Impact

Teva is undertaking a major global Supply Chain Transformation to establish standardized, scalable, and data-driven planning processes across its manufacturing network. As part of IBP S2C Phase 2, Teva is seeking a highly experienced Associate Director to lead the design and implementation of advanced production and capacity planning capabilities in SAP IBP, with specific focus on the Time-Series Optimizer, Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), capacity planning, and production planning.

This global role combines deep manufacturing and supply planning expertise, SAP planning technology knowledge, and strong transformation leadership. The successful candidate will act as the Global Business Owner and business solution lead, working closely with global business stakeholders, manufacturing sites, central planning teams, data and technology teams, and the consulting integrator.

The role is accountable for global business requirements, future-state process design, solution validation, business testing, deployment readiness, adoption, and stabilization. It will be instrumental in defining how production, capacity, inventory, service, and cost trade-offs are optimized across the network and governed through a sustainable centralized planning model.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.


• 7+ years of experience in supply chain planning, manufacturing planning, planning excellence, or supply chain transformation roles.


• Strong experience implementing SAP IBP Supply Planning using the Optimizer, preferably the Time-Series Optimizer.


• Demonstrated leadership of at least one end-to-end SAP IBP Supply Planning or Optimizer implementation in a complex global environment.


• Proven experience leading business requirements, solution design, validation, SIT, UAT, deployment, and hypercare activities.


• Deep understanding of RCCP, capacity planning, production planning, supply planning optimization, and manufacturing network planning.


• Strong knowledge of optimization concepts, including objectives, constraints, costs and penalties, parameters, infeasibility analysis, and scenario evaluation.


• Practical understanding of capacity constraints, bottleneck management, production campaigns and setup considerations, sourcing decisions, and inventory-service-cost trade-offs.


• Experience working with external consulting partners and system integrators, including the ability to challenge designs and drive business decisions.


• Demonstrated ability to bridge business requirements, planning logic, data requirements, and technical solution design.


• Strong global project leadership, workshop facilitation, communication, and senior stakeholder management skills.

Also Good to Have

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, consumer goods, or another complex manufacturing environment.


• Prior experience with SAP APO Supply Network Planning (SNP) Optimizer.


• Hands-on knowledge of SAP IBP architecture, planning operators, heuristics, optimization concepts, and integration dependencies.


• Experience defining global planning standards, centralized planning models, governance, and target operating models.


• Experience with pilot-based deployments, parallel planning, and phased global rollouts.


• Familiarity with Integrated Business Planning, S&OP, S&OE, annual operating planning, and financial integration of supply plans.


• Advanced degree or relevant professional certification in supply chain, operations, or SAP planning solutions.

Location

This job can be executed in any Teva EU location except for Switzerland and France. 

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