IM Transcend Deployment Manager– CMMS

Transcend | Innovative Medicine

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

About Transcend

Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one clean ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains.

The program will simplify the Pharmaceutical ERP landscape from seven systems to one, standardizing processes to create a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that enables agility and scalability across the business.

Additionally, Transcend will remediate end-of-life system exposure expected toward the end of this decade, reducing risk while enabling long-term sustainability.

Role Purpose

The Functional Deployment Lead – CMMS is accountable for the global deployment of Asset Management and Maintenance capabilities within the Transcend SAP S/4HANA program. This role owns the end-to-end implementation of CMMS-related processes, ensuring alignment with the global process template, regulatory requirements, and SAP Clean Core principles.

As a people manager, this role leads a team of functional SMEs and analysts, owning functional delivery, workload prioritization, and execution quality, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to challenge designs, support testing, and guide issue resolution.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

United States - Requisition Number: R-066224

Belgium - Requisition Number: R-067044

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
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Major Duties & Responsibilities

Global Functional Ownership & Deployment

• Own the global deployment of CMMS capabilities including Asset Register structure, maintenance execution, calibration processes, operations scheduling, reliability methodologies, and integration with maintenance partners.

• Lead solution confirmation with Global Template Owners, ensuring consistent and compliant deployment across regions and business units.

• Ensure all CMMS solutions adhere to SAP Clean Core principles and regulatory requirements.

Leadership & Team Management

• Directly manage functional SMEs and analysts, owning workload planning, prioritization, and quality of deliverables.

• Provide functional leadership and coaching across the domain.

• Act as the primary functional escalation point within Transcend deployments.

Solution Delivery, Testing & Hypercare

• Oversee functional design validation, configuration reviews, and integration readiness.

• Lead functional execution during testing phases and support validation activities in alignment with GxP and SDLC expectations.

• Own functional support during hypercare, ensuring stable operations and issue resolution.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with other Functional Deployment Leads to ensure end-to-end process integration.

• Partner with IT, system integrators, validation, and change management teams.

Qualifications

Required

• A minimum of six years of professional experience

• University degree or equivalent experience in a relevant technical or business discipline.

• Strong functional expertise within the relevant domain in a GxP-regulated environment.

• Proven people management experience with accountability for functional delivery.

• Hands-on capability with SAP S/4HANA processes relevant to the domain.

Preferred

• Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical industry experience.

• Prior involvement in global ERP transformations.

Other

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time both domestically and internationally.