DD&T Partner - Launch & Performance Excellence

DD&T Partner - Launch & Performance Excellence

Job Profile Summary

The DD&T Business Partner for Launch & Performance Excellence serves as the strategic technology partner for business capabilities that enable efficient product launches, compliant artwork workflows, commercial order capture, and performance visibility.

The role connects business priorities with digital capabilities, shapes the technology roadmap, and helps deliver scalable, compliant, and business-value-driven solutions powered by visualization technologies such as Qlik and Power BI, digital data technologies such as AWS / DataBricks, and data modeling platforms such as SAP BW, SAP DSC, and SAP SAC.

The Digital Business Partner reports to the DD&T Head of Digital Supply Chain.

Job Description

This role bridges business strategy and digital execution to advance launch readiness, artwork governance, commercial order intake, and performance management through trusted data, analytics, and process transformation.

• Acts as the strategic DD&T partner for the Global Artworks Team, GSC performance management and Launch Excellence team, aligning business priorities, operating model transformation, and digital capabilities.
• Serves as the Application Manager for the respective DD&T Supply Chain applications, ensuring reliable operations, clear ownership, and adherence to DD&T application management principles.
• Defines the technology roadmap, prioritizes investments, and enables scalable, compliant, and business-value-driven solutions, including AI-based capabilities.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to business leadership and shapes future-ready launch, artwork, commercial operations, and performance capabilities.
• Combines business partnership, domain expertise, and SAP-enabled transformation leadership to improve launch execution, artwork compliance, order intake effectiveness, performance visibility, and intelligent decision-making.

How you will contribute

• Lead the DD&T partnership for Launch Management, Artwork Management, Commercial Order Intake, and Performance Management across strategic, tactical, and operational horizons.
• Shape the technology roadmap, guide investment decisions, and prioritize initiatives that deliver scalable and compliant solutions.
• Partner with business and DD&T stakeholders to define the target-state capability landscape and embed AI-based solutions.
• Collaborate with DD&T DSC Delivery Leads to ensure alignment on scoping, milestones, funding consumption, objectives and priorities.
• Oversee service performance for launch, artwork, order intake, and performance solutions.
• Translate critical business challenges into effective digital and AI-based solutions by improving data quality, process visibility, and decision support.
• Balance local business needs with enterprise priorities for global harmonization, standardization, cybersecurity, and operational resilience.
• Manage budgets, funding priorities, vendor scope, cost optimization opportunities, MSA, SOWs and SaaS agreements.
• Ensure initiatives are delivered in line with enterprise frameworks, quality standards, and regulatory requirements, including QMS, SDLC, and ITPLC.

Skills and qualifications

• Proven experience in business partnering, portfolio prioritization, strategic planning, and service delivery within a complex DD&T environment.
• Strong expertise in launch management, artwork management, commercial order intake, and performance management processes.
• Deep knowledge of visualization and data platforms in large enterprise environments, ideally including Qlik, Power BI, SAP BW, SAP DSC, SAP SAC, and related analytics and data modeling capabilities.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions and lead cross-functional delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior business and DD&T leaders.
• Experience defining digital strategy, shaping target-state architecture, and aligning investments to measurable business value.
• Strong leadership skills, including team leadership, vendor management, and collaboration across matrixed organizations.
• Experience operating in regulated, global, and transformation-driven environments.
• Familiarity with agile delivery, product management, and continuous improvement practices.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree required; an advanced degree in Information Technology, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
• Significant experience in information technology, digital transformation, or enterprise applications, with strong exposure to analytics, reporting, and data-driven business process platforms.
• 5-7 years relevant experience in Pharma Life Science or similar industry is a plus.
• Strong Supply Chain business understanding.
• Experience leading teams and managing third-party service providers in a global environment.
• Strong ability to assess emerging technologies and translate them into business opportunities, solution options, and implementation roadmaps.

Locations

AUT - Wien - DC Tower

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time