Supplier Control Assistant Supplier Control Assistant

The Supplier Development & Performance Management (SD&PM) Change Portal Team centrally receives and tracks all supplier change notifications for external direct material suppliers to support global External Supplier Change Control.

Responsibilities for this role include:

• For each change notification, perform an impact assessment to identify the change level, impacted manufacturing sites and impacted products.
• Create a change record in the global electronic business system for logging, tracking and communicating change notifications associated with suppliers.
• Additional project work may include verification of supply chain data.

• Education Minimum:
  Bachelors preferably in Scientific, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum Experience and Skills
  • Minimum 5 years experience in Technical, Quality, Procurement, Manufacturing Operations, or related Business Operations working with products or processes is required.
  • Demonstrated Quality, Technical and / or Manufacturing experience in the areas of pharmaceutical, medical device, and / or vaccine manufacturing or packaging.
  • Ability to work within a matrix organization and leverage expertise from other functions and departments.
  • Proven self-starter.
  • Ability to develop and / or improve supplier relationships.
  • Knowledge of Supplier Quality Management Systems.
  • Knowledge of cGMPs, technical writing, data management collection and analysis.
  • Possess excellent interpersonal, inclusion, and communication skills.
  • Appreciates and respects diversity, cultures, and norms.
  • Facilitates business negotiations in a professional manner.
  • Ability to Prioritize, Align and Simplify.
  • Works independently with all levels of the organization, and has demonstrated the following skills:
    Rapid / Disciplined decisions, Acts with courage and candor, Drives results, Escalation of issues / concerns to management, as appropriate.
• Preferred Experience and Skills
  • Experience with external supplier change control.
  • Proficiency with MS Excel.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with Suppliers.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Six Sigma Greenbelt desired.