IT Senior Manager - Serialization

Who are we?

Teva is a global pharmaceutical leader and the world's largest generic medicines producer, committed to improving health and increasing access to quality health solutions worldwide. Our employees are at the core of our success, with colleagues in over 80 countries delivering the world's largest medicine cabinet to 200 million people every day. We offer a uniquely diverse portfolio of products and solutions for patients and we've built a promising pipeline centered around our core therapeutic areas.  We are continually developing patient-centric solutions and significantly growing both our generic and specialty medicines business through investment in research and development, marketing, business development and innovation. This is how we improve health and enable people to live better, healthier lives. Join us on our journey of growth!

Job Description

The IT sr. manager will be responsible for the support and maintenence of teva global serialization systems (SAP ATTP & Tracelink). In this role the individual will be responsible for ensuring initiatives and projects meet the core business requirements and impacted business processes are updated. These global business processes are applicable to both internal sites and business functions and external secondary packaging CMOs & 3PLs. In this role, the Sr. Manager will lead an international group of IT experts that are responsible for the global serialization solutions in Teva.

Main responsibilities

• Provide hands-on operational support for installed solutions and existing serialization solutions.
• Support the interpretation of both emerging and changing global serialization & traceability regulations and industry standards (e.g. GS1)
• Determining the impacts of these possible changes to current systems and business processes and implementing business process solutions to support these new and changing regulatory requirements
• Manage assigned global cross-functional strategies and activities associated with the implementation and management of serialization activities for all commercial products across all manufacturing sites including all contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs).
• Reviews and provides feedback on serialization and traceability requirements in quality agreements.
• Responsible for completion of business process change impact assessments for sustainment initiatives
• Manage the completion of business process and system regression testing as required by Teva’s IT validation processes
• Planning, coordinating and execution of User Acceptance Testing of new and upgraded system solutions and the associated impacted business processes.
• Develops, implements and maintains oversight on policies and procedures for the operation of the Global Serialization activities, ensuring all relevant business and regulatory requirements are met.
• Works on problems of moderate to advanced complexity where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
• Reviews, and/or implements changes to controlled documents as needed. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems related or equivalent experience.
• Serialization and traceability expertise in a GMP environment including an in-depth understanding of SAP ATTP and the end to end serialization & aggregation business process and architecture from the packaging operations, warehousing, distribution and communication to both downstream trading partners and government systems.
• Able to develop solutions to a wide range of complex problems, which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. 
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with senior management.
• Team leadership experience in a similar role at a pharma company
• In-depth understanding and application of relevant principles, concepts, practices, and standards, along with an in-depth knowledge of industry practices and regulations.
• Solid working knowledge and expertise of relevant US, EU and international pharmaceutical cGMPs / regulations
• Able to apply established organizational policies, and interpret, execute and recommend modifications to department policies and procedures as needed.
• May require familiarity with the technologies, strengths and weaknesses of a wide variety of secondary packaging capabilities and manufacturers worldwide.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and proficiency across multiple practices within Supply Chain and Commercial Manufacturing departments, to understand, coordinate and communicate competing demands.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Experience in pharmaceutical operations/cGMP environment.
• 5+ years’ experience as a technical hands-on business analyst with experience in engineering based systems, reporting and mobile technologies in support of operations and/or engineering functions.
• 5+ years of experience and functional knowledge of Enterprise Serialization Platform – SAP ATTP, tracelink.
• Experience in XML, EPCIS, GS1 standards and SOAP Web service configuration.
• 4+ years of working knowledge of GS1 standards Global and Serialization regulatory requirements – US DSCSA, EU FMD, Russia CRPT, Brazil ANVISA.
   

Why Teva?

Benefits package:

• Annual bonus
• Christmas and New Year bonus
• Life insurance 
• Luxmed - medical package 

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