Contract Opportunity: Operations Analytics Design Lead

Luton (3 Days Onsite/Week)

12-Month Contract | Outside IR35

£ Competitive Daily Rate

We’re hiring an Operations Analytics Design Lead to help deliver a cutting-edge roadmap of analytics and AI capabilities across our client’s global Pharma Operations landscape. This is a unique opportunity to drive business transformation across supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and distribution.

Maternity cover starting in November – ideally want person to start mid September

Head of design for operations analytics (factories, distribution & supply chain)

Run a team of business analysts (task managing rather than line managing) – stakeholder management, keeping people on task, removing blockers etc

Good understanding of analytics and operations in a pharma company

Ideally SAP Analytics cloud and Datasphere

VP Level – able to interact with senior executive team

Don’t want an order taker – someone that is able to innovate with people

Pharma experience as need experience of GxP, products structures, supply chains etc

1 stage interview process

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of senior Business Analysts (Business Area Leads), ensuring high-quality delivery and prioritisation.
• Design new operating models for operations analytics across the enterprise (network, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, etc.).
• Drive decision-making support through analytics, reducing risk, accelerating processes, and unlocking business value.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Operations to define requirements and steer delivery of AI/analytics solutions.
• Embed analytics into operational processes and champion citizen data initiatives, literacy, and governance.
• Develop best practices for BI lifecycle, visualisation, and digital boardrooms.
• Partner with the SI to design, build, and test SAP-based analytics solutions, ensuring delivery excellence.

✅ Must-Have Skills

• Strong background in business analysis and ERP analytics within pharma operations.
• Proven experience with analytics delivery in SAP (including SAP Analytics Cloud, Qlik, Power BI).
• Prior involvement in analytics build/testing on SAP platforms.
• Task/team management and leadership across cross-functional global teams.
• Exceptional communication skills – able to engage stakeholders from shop floor to top floor.

Desirable Skills

• Full S/4 HANA lifecycle implementation experience (Embedded Analytics, BW/4HANA, Datasphere).
• Deep understanding of supply chain and manufacturing processes in regulated environments.
• Exposure to GxP/SOx regulations.
• Familiarity with data science use cases in Operations.
• UX know-how and visual storytelling with data.
• Experience managing large-scale, multi-year programs.
• Professional certifications in SAP, PM, BI or Lean frameworks.

If you're a visionary analytics leader who thrives at the intersection of data, business operations, and digital transformation — we’d love to hear from you.

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