Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)Environmental Conditions
OfficeJob Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. The Pharma Services Group (PSG) IT Team collaborates with Group/Division IT and IT Shared Services to deliver comprehensive IT services to PSG site's Business Teams. This includes IT architecture and governance, application services, infrastructure services, process improvement, and automation to help PSG division sites achieve strategic goals.
DESCRIPTION
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the ERP Business Transformation Lead, the Senior ERP Business Analyst serves as the functional solution lead for Supply Chain ERP initiatives. This role partners with business stakeholders to analyze requirements, optimize end-to-end supply chain processes, and translate business needs into scalable SAP solutions that align with enterprise standards and business objectives.
- Act as the functional lead for SAP Supply Chain projects by providing expertise across materials planning, purchasing, inventory control, receiving, warehouse operations, quality management and related integrations. Guide solution design, resolve complex business process issues, and ensure solutions leverage SAP best practices while supporting operational efficiency, inventory accuracy, and service levels.
- Partner with Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Warehouse, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and IT teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including business process analysis, requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
- Assist in prioritizing business technology projects, ensuring alignment with technology that maximizes return on investment, and linking IT strategy with overall business/service line strategy.
- Serve as the primary liaison between Supply Chain business teams and IT, ensuring business priorities are understood, functional requirements are clearly documented, and delivered solutions meet operational and compliance requirements.
- Ensure that teams are adhering to and support quality procedures and policies.
- Drive adoption of SAP Supply Chain best practices by providing functional guidance, user training, knowledge transfer, and support for business process standardization across the organization.
- Develop functional specifications, process documentation, test scripts, and training materials while supporting system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), cutover planning, and hypercare activities.
- Assist in IT architecture, strategy and roadmap planning.
- Identify opportunities to optimize materials planning, procurement, inventory management, receiving, and warehouse processes through SAP standard functionality, process harmonization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Uphold and implement best practices and drive practical process improvement (PPI).
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of supply chain business processes.
REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of SAP S/4 in procurement, warehouse management, quality management, materials planning and process manufacturing.
- Over 5 years of business analysis experience in the Pharmaceuticals or Life Sciences industry.
- Experience implementing and supporting SAP solutions in regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environments, with a strong understanding of FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Computer System Validation (CSV) requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong relationship-building skills with business and IT partners.
- Superior customer service and communication skills.
- Ability to work with all levels of the organization, both technical and non-technical.
- Demonstrated ability to provide solution leadership for complex SAP Supply Chain initiatives, including guiding consulting partners, evaluating design alternatives, resolving functional challenges, and ensuring alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
- Strong organizational change management capability.
- Ability to manage multiple requirements and projects with short timelines.
- Ability to travel moderately (10-15%) within the United States and Canada.
Compensation
The salary range estimated for this position based in North Carolina is $93,800.00–$140,675.00.Skills Required
- Extensive knowledge of SAP S/4 in procurement, warehouse management, quality management, materials planning and process manufacturing.
- Over 5 years of business analysis experience in the Pharmaceuticals or Life Sciences industry.
- Experience implementing and supporting SAP solutions in regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environments, including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, GMP, and Computer System Validation (CSV).
- Experience across the SDLC including business process analysis, requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
- Proven ability to serve as functional lead for SAP Supply Chain projects and guide consulting partners.
- Strong organizational change management capability and ability to drive process harmonization and continuous improvement.
- Superior communication, relationship-building, and customer service skills; ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to travel moderately (10-15%) within the United States and Canada.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thermo Fisher Scientific and has not been reviewed or approved by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a strong company 401(k) match and an employee stock purchase plan that add meaningful long‑term value. Feedback suggests these features stand out among core financial benefits even when base pay feels average.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage offers multiple national medical options alongside dental and vision, with company‑paid life and disability coverage. This breadth is considered a solid foundation even if some costs may not be the lowest among peers.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave, backup care, adoption assistance, and specialized family resources are available. Feedback suggests these supports are a notable plus for colleagues managing family and caregiving needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Insights
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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