Data Scientist - Supply Chain & Procurement

Data Scientist – Supply Chain & Procurement

Location – UK/Belgium/France/Germany/Netherlands/Spain

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.

Role Purpose:

The incumbent of the role will support initiatives for Procurement and Supply Chain teams at Global level as well as communication and deployment across all Lonza sites. Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives across global processes, tools and systems; using innovative and trending solutions.

Research and provide timely, accurate solutions & market analytics to the Procurement and Supply Chain teams. Support definition of the digital needs and priorities in cooperation with the corresponding teams and key stakeholders. Support the implementation of new advanced digital technologies enabling more efficient and effective ways of working as well as increasing automation and simplification. By providing insights, benchmarking and external intelligence, play an important role in driving continuous improvement within their area and enabling the function to become world-class.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support consolidation of Global Procurement and Supply Chain data to bring accuracy and transparency of processes such as spend analytics, Procurement and Supply Chain savings realization, demand forecasting, warehouse management, among others; across all Lonza sites.
• Support completion of relevant Procurement and Supply Chain analytics to help drive efficiencies and support key Lonza stakeholders.
• Assist in the development and implementation of Global Procurement and Supply Chain procedures and guidelines (incl. SOP’s, policies...)
• Identify and engage with internal stakeholders, within Procurement and Supply Chain teams, as well as Corporate Functions. Manage communications especially when implementing changes.
• Participate in global projects to either implement or enhance systems and processes across the whole Procurement and Supply Chain organizations and ensure full accountability in the overall achievement.
• Perform data validation and testing phases, before promoting solutions to Production/Live environments

Key requirements:

• Must have analytical skills and an understanding of system databases, data elements, and application software solutions to maximize data gathering and data analysis.
• Understanding or experience of current trends in “Big Data”, “Cognitive Computing” and Machine learning algorithms.
• Business and financial acumen, IT literate, data analytical skills, SAP (ERP, BW, Lumira), Power BI.
• Technical expertise in analytical programming languages like R & Python and hands on experience on data mining/statistical tools like SAS, XLMiner and MatLab.
• Preferably versed in Procurement and Supply Chain processes.

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.

People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.