Planning Master Data Lead

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.
Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.
We do so via: 
Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and 
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services. 
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Planning Master Data Lead role will make an impact:

• Serve as global functional expert for supply chain planning master data.

• Define and implement robust business processes relating to the creation and maintenance of key master data objects spanning multiple functions, business units, geographies and systems.

• Lead data quality improvement initiatives with Global Supply Chain Management while partnering with the Data Quality Management team to develop relevant data quality KPIs, scorecards and reports.

• Update and develop policies and procedures with focus on operational efficiencies through data quality and process standardization.

• Managing day-to-day master data management activities across a virtual global organization.

• Developing continuous improvement mindset by constantly striving for ways to strengthen “end to end” process perspective for complex global supply chain processes.

• Facilitate New Product Introductions by providing expertise and functional support as it relates to SAP material master setup, workflow management and issue escalation.

• Lead supply chain data workstreams within SAP roll-out projects (data cleansing, migration, user training, etc.).

• Act as a point of escalation for issue resolution, helping to unblock the team and ensuring timely delivery of high-priority activities.

• Represent the Planning Master Data team in SAP S/4HANA rollouts and related digital transformation initiatives, ensuring readiness and accurate configuration.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Passion for managing information as a corporate resource; recognizes the business value of data.

• Strong functional knowledge of SAP master data (MM, PTP, OTC) experience with SAP S/4HANA preferred

• Strong analytical skills, in terms of both data and process management

• Ability to cope with ambiguity and implement structure and clarity

• Hands on experience with data cleansing, enrichment and migration

• Demonstrated ability to build cross-functional business relationships

• Ability to work well with people at various levels and with different cultural backgrounds

• Demonstrated proficiency using MS Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)

• Excellent verbal and written communications

• Strong leadership skills

• A degree in scientific/engineering, information technology or commercial discipline

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.