Senior Analyst Transcend OTC

Job Function: Supply Chain Planning

Job Description:

Position Summary

Senior Analyst, accountable for the global PLAN business process validation and release adoption activities across the Transcend EMEA-OTC releases. Collaborates with both Transcend project team and local business partners to ensure successful release cut-over. Combines design input and process delivery with operational ownership through release lifecycle and serves as the business process single point of contact for PLAN stakeholders..

IM Transcend is a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end Supply Chain digital capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem of 7+ major global PHARM ERP systems, standardizing our core business processes and products [across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Quality, and Data], and enabling our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S/4 HANA instance.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Supply Network Planning

• Drive PLAN process scoping and testing strategy, in particular for EMEA OTC processes through Transcend Rel 4.

• Support solution exploration/design workshops-aligning peers and stakeholders and ensuring business engagement and support.

• Drive quality decision-making by reviewing process gaps, design trade-offs, and escalating cross-functional risks and dependencies

• Ensure operational readiness and compliance through status governance, user access management coordination, and oversight of SOPs and work instructions

• Support testing strategy and quality assurance with hands-on coordination and execution of various test cycles (BST, UAT, regression), confirming outcomes meet business acceptance criteria, and escalate critical issue resolution

• Orchestrate testing resource strategy by ensuring identification, onboarding, and deployment of required support-including Key Users, surge capacity, and ecosystem/ERP test coverage

• Review major defects, process gaps, and country-specific exceptions, and facilitate tactical resolution or escalate leadership decision on fundamental design principles

• Support hypercare, post‑go‑live adoption, stabilization and sustained value realization

• Monitor adoption performance and address major issues, mitigate risks, and prioritize continuous process improvements

Professional

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, Madrid, Spain, Paris, Île-de-France, France, Zug, Switzerland