Job Description Summary
Serve as the Solution Analyst for the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing application (PP), performing Technical System Owner–like responsibilities: safeguarding the STEP Global Template, orchestrating build & run activities, and ensuring compliant delivery and operation across projects (validation, security controls evidencing, and audit readiness).Job Description
Senior Solution Analyst, Manufacturing
Join us in building the future of Sandoz.
Through STEP (Sandoz Transformation Enterprise Program), we are creating a unified, integrated digital core and simplifying our end-to-end ways of working. From SAP S/4HANA to Veeva, Workday, LabVantage, and beyond, you’ll help design and deliver future-ready systems that drive global impact — enabling us to deliver affordable medicines to more patients worldwide.
Job Summary
Serve as the Solution Analyst for the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing application (PP), performing Technical System Owner–like responsibilities: safeguarding the STEP Global Template, orchestrating build & run activities, and ensuring compliant delivery and operation across projects (validation, security controls evidencing, and audit readiness).
Your Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Template keeper: steward the SAP Manufacturing Global Template; manage changes through CR/DRB and TRB; enforce Clean Core.
- Release & roadmap: maintain Manufacturing release calendar and align with STEP milestones and PMO.
- Build & integrations: own functional/technical delivery for PP and its integrations (e.g., Veeva QMS, OneLIMS, MDG, ATTP) via CPI; ensure non-functional requirements.
- Validation ownership: plan and ensure delivery of validation deliverables per STEP SAP Validation & Quality Plans including FRA/URS, AB, FS/DS, IQ, OQ, PQ, summary reports, traceability, and approvals in DMS.
- Testing orchestration: drive FUT, SIT, OQ, UAT, PQ; secure environments, data, and role provisioning; lead defect triage and sign‑offs.
- Security & compliance: coordinate AppSec (incl. SOC2 reuse, SAST/DAST/PT, pCMA) **and provide evidence for all applicable Security Controls (IMF)**; ensure GRC/SoD compliance and audit readiness.
- Service transition & operations: execute go-live handover to AMS, maintain runbooks/KPIs, coordinate DR planning & testing at S/4 platform level.
• Documentation & traceability: maintain end-to-end documentation in DMS/Confluence and tooling (Jira/ALM); ensure URS→FS/DS→Test→Release traceability and prevent duplicate RICEFWs.
- Issue & change control: manage RICEFW backlog prioritization; apply gating and exception handling; align with PMO.
Minimum Requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
- 5+ years in SAP PP/QM with validated systems (GxP) and CPI/BTP integrations
- Hands-on across validation lifecycle (FRA/URS, AB, FS/DS, IQ/OQ/PQ), DMS and risk‑based testing
- Strong understanding of change management governance, RICEFW lifecycle, and Jira/ALM
- Experience with interfacing to Veeva QMS, OneLIMS, ATTP, MES (Körber), and MDG material flows
- Stakeholder & vendor coordination across PMO, Business, Architecture, Security
- Excellent documentation and release management discipline
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Business Administration, or related business field; (Master’s degree is preferred)
Languages:
English
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
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Skills Desired
Analytical Thinking, Communication Skills, Financial Modeling, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Stakeholder ManagementTop Skills
What We Do
Sandoz is the global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines.
Our Purpose is to pioneer access to medicines for patients globally. We are on a mission to drive innovation in the healthcare industry by freeing up resources sustainably and responsibly while continuing to address global health challenges such as antimicrobial resistance.
We are present in more than 100 countries and our medicines serve some 500 million people every year. We have two main global businesses: Generics - divided between standard generics and complex generics - and Biosimilars.
