Site Launch Lead Manager supporting MES deployment across PGS Manufacturing sites. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation and alignment with digital strategies.
Responsibilities
Support Value-Focused MES Deployment Planning: Partner with senior team members to scope high-value business areas and contribute to defining deployment strategies that support digital and PGS priorities.
Develop Site-Level Roadmaps Aligned to Global Priorities: Translate the global MES vision into tailored site-specific roadmaps, ensuring alignment with long-term manufacturing and digital transformation objectives.
Coordinate Pre-Deployment Readiness for Activities: Drive all pre-deployment preparation activities — including stakeholder alignment, gap analysis, integration scoping, and process mapping, ensuring the site is fully prepared for MES execution.
Facilitate Cross-Functional Stakeholder Engagement Build trusted partnerships with site operations, quality, engineering, and automation teams to ensure shared ownership of the MES strategy, scope, and launch approach.
Manage Handover to Deployment Teams : Facilitate a structured transition of the site to the MES deployment team, ensuring a clear scope, defined success criteria, and readiness across people, processes, and systems.
Track Progress against Milestones: Monitor and communicate progress against roadmap deliverables and escalate risks or blockers as needed.
Embed Deployment Accelerators Contribute to and implement repeatable launch accelerators – such as playbooks, reusable templates, standard MES functionality and integration channels, new deployment models and AI to drive greater standardization and contribute to program acceleration goals.
Manage Site-Level Budget Inputs Support financial planning for site launch and readiness by estimating deployment costs, resource planning and flagging potential variances to senior team members.
Requirements
BS in Engineering or Technology based subjects(s) or equivalent experience
4+ years related work experience, 1-3 years of which would preferably be in a Global Solution environment focused on the build and deployment of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Relevant domain experience in manufacturing and/or quality operations
Experience in all stages of solution and application lifecycle from value analysis, business case development, and solution deployment through to value realization and system retirement is a significant advantage
Ability to work across multiple concurrent activities and successfully adapt to changing priorities as required
An understanding of system cGMP requirements and demonstrable knowledge of computer system design and maintenance lifecycle in cGMP environments.
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