Global Operations Strategy Manager (f/m/d)

Our people in Manufacturing & Global Operations share two priorities: getting things done and making things better. If you’re a dynamic person with a positive mindset, you’ll fit in well here. It’s an international team with a powerful spirit of collaboration. Together, we make sure our products meet the highest standards of quality by constantly searching for ways to improve at every stage of our value chain – from the raw materials we buy through to the logistics network that brings our medicines to patients. Join our team and help us make an even bigger contribution to Grünenthal’s future.

What the job looks like
Each day you´ll enjoy a variety of challenges, such as:

• Identifying opportunities to address the business needs and enhance operations capabilities to achieve long-term competitiveness and profitable growth
• Contributing key decision processes to steer the company´s strategy as M&A, major investments, manufacturing networks optimization and other strategic decisions in the field of operations
• A global key player working cross functionally with all Global Operations areas to reviewing and challenging and deriving conclusions and providing actionable recommendations 
• Rapid personal growth adventure with lots of opportunities to present to our management boards
• This is only the first step of a career path within our company: you have an ambition – we support you to reach it!

What you´ll bring to the table
To make the most of this role and truly thrive, you should have:

• A university degree, preferably in science or industrial engineering (MBA is a plus)
• 3-5 years consulting experience in a leading consulting firm or extensive operational / manufacturing experience working (pharma sector experience is a plus)
• Strategic thinker and a creative self-starter energized by problem solving and pushing new solutions and have a "hands-on" and "can do"-mentality
• You are not afraid of numbers and analytics and are passionate about solving problems, especially using data driven decision taking processes 
• Strong intercultural and excellent relationship management skills to inspire and motivate others as well as finding your way to achieve the most optimal solutions together with a team
• Excellent communication skills in English at all levels of the organization, additional language beneficial
• You like a working environment that offers lots of additional benefits including a fair share of working from home/ meeting colleagues in the office

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"In this role you will be one of the key drivers for our network strategy assessments.  You will see the full end-to-end perspective of our operations processes, will have lots of international exposure and will be prepared for your next cool role in our organization according to your personal growth ambition." Kaiser Jan, the Hiring Manager