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CMO Planning Integration Manager FTCSecondment

GSK


Job Location:

London - UK

Yearly Salary: GBP 81000 - 135000
Posted: 3 October 2026 (6 days ago)
Application Deadline: 4 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary


This is a secondment role with a duration until 28 March 2028. It offers a unique opportunity to shape a globally standardized procurement process and support a major business transformation.


Job Purpose

The S/4 CMO Planning Integration Manager will provide specialist expertise and knowledge of the CMO Planning and Execution processes expertise within the ERP Evolution program. The role will define govern and continuously improve the future-state processes connecting Global Planning Site Planning Manufacturing and External Supply.

Working across business and technology teams the role holder will translate business needs into a globally standardized compliant and practical SAP S/4HANA process and systems blueprint. The role will champion adoption of the global template support implementation across deployment waves and ensure that the solution delivers sustainable operational performance.


Key Responsibilities

The role will require working in collaboration with other team members within the ERP Evolution program (both internal and external to GSK) including PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) central and site Planning Direct Procurement and External Supply to design and deliver a robust CMO planning process and solution with particular responsibility for:


  • Contribute to the development of the future CMO operating model and virtual plant design defining business requirements and contributing to S/4HANA design decisions for external manufacturing batch-level execution inventory visibility stock ownership and planning integration
  • Support definition and harmonization of ways of working across Global Planning Site Planning Manufacturing and External Supply.
  • Cover core process areas including net requirements planning purchase requisition and purchase order management supplier commitments inventory replenishment supply exceptions capacity reviews new product introductions product transfers regulatory changes and lifecycle planning.
  • Understand and articulate business requirements assess design options and recommend solutions aligned with the global template.
  • Translate agreed decisions into clear process designs functional requirements data requirements reporting needs and solution blueprints.
  • Define process data and master-data ownership to support data integrity compliance traceability and effective performance management.
  • Partner with the system integrator and business representatives to ensure that workshop decisions are accurately reflected in the solution design.
  • Ensure adherence to global ERP Evolution process and solution governance escalating design decisions and deviations through the appropriate design authority.
  • Align Planning Procurement Manufacturing Quality Regulatory Finance and External Supply stakeholders and drive timely issue resolution.
  • Define and create test scenarios and test scripts for CMO planning process across Informal Testing UAT and DIL. Also support and execute UAT and DIL testing for CMO planning activities including defect triage resolution tracking and alignment with program test governance.
  • Work closely with site planning teams and cluster functions to ensure CMO process design is understood that local ways of working are assessed and change impacts are captured in the Local Change Action Plans.
  • Collaborate with Deployment teams and Global Process Owners to support Change Impact Assessments and the consistent implementation of CMO processes and system designs across sites and program waves ensuring changes are managed through established governance processes.
  • Monitor process performance after implementation and lead continuous improvement while protecting the integrity of the global standard.

Basic Qualifications

  • Deep specialist knowledge of CMO planning and execution process and its interaction with other supply chain processes.
  • Strong operational experience and functional understanding of CMO process in SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA.
  • Significant experience in supply chain planning procurement manufacturing external supply or integrated business planning within a complex or regulated environment.
  • Experience working on large-scale global transformation programs preferably involving process design and SAP implementation.
  • Proven ability to define business requirements evaluate options design global processes and deliver sustainable process changes.
  • Experience facilitating workshops and managing multifunctional geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.
  • Experience translating business requirements into process data control reporting and technology specifications.
  • Experience supporting testing deployment change management and capability development.

Other Job-Related Skills and Background

  • Strong leadership interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to establish credibility quickly.
  • Excellent written and verbal business English.
  • Aility to influence without direct authority broker practical solutions and resolve cross-functional issues.
  • Strong process-governance risk-assessment and continuous-improvement to work effectively under tight deadlines finite resources ambiguity and changing priorities.
  • Ability to balance local business needs with the adoption and protection of a global standard template.

Work Arrangements

The role is hybrid requiring on-site work two days per week. Remote or fully home-working arrangements are not available for this role.


Skills

Cold Chain Customer-Focused Customs Duties Data Integrity Digital Fluency Financial Acumen GxP Regulations Lean Management Logistics Management New Product Introduction (NPI) Problem Solving Product Knowledge Risk Awareness Strategic Alignment Supply Chain Operations Supply Chain Sustainability Third Party Logistics Management Transportation And Logistics Warehouse Management

Italian Salary Range / Fascia retributiva in Italia: EUR 73050 to EUR 121750French Salary Range / Fourchette salariale France EUR 75750 to EUR 126250Belgium Salary Range / Fourchette salariale Belgique: EUR 81000 to EUR 135000The annual gross base salary range for new hires in this position is listed above for each applicable location. These ranges take into account a number of factors including the candidates skills experience education level and the market rate for the addition this position may offer an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. More detailed information on the total benefits package will be supplied during the recruitment process. This role is available for applicants from multiple locations and therefore salary ranges for certain locations are also shown. Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process. Please note salaries vary by country based on the candidates skills experience education level and the market rate for the role. Offers are typically made within the advertised range based on the candidates skills experience and qualifications with the upper end generally reserved for highly experienced candidates or other exceptional circumstances aligned with these criteria.

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Uniting science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade as a successful growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make so were committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how together we deliver for patients shareholders and our people.

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