Senior Manager, Traceability & Serialisation. Dublin or Cork

Job description

Are you ready to lead a global transformation that protects patients and keeps life-saving medicines moving safely and compliantly across markets? In this role you will be responsible for the end-to-end product traceability and serialisation agenda, ensuring our medicines meet ever-evolving regulatory requirements while we modernise the platforms and processes that power our supply chain. Located in Dublin (College Park) or Cork (Mahon Point), you will collaborate with the Head of Traceability & Serialisation. Your position focuses on the move from TraceLink to SAP Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals (ATTP). This is a component of the enterprise SAP S/4HANA programme. You will connect packaging lines, quality, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and IT into a single, resilient ecosystem. How will you apply your expertise to design, test and deploy solutions that make a direct difference for patients with rare and devastating conditions? Accountabilities: - Platform Transition to SAP ATTP: Lead and support the transition from TraceLink to SAP ATTP within the broader SAP S/4HANA programme. Define requirements, map processes, shape solution design, prepare master data, guide migration, and ensure robust integration, testing, validation, deployment, and user adoption for a smooth cutover and stable operations. - Master Data Management: Own traceability master data stewardship. Define, cleanse, map and migrate critical master data to SAP ATTP and connected systems, establishing clear governance to safeguard data integrity and regulatory compliance. - End-to-End Traceability Processes: Own and support serialisation and traceability processes across current and future landscapes, including alert management, release management, market compliance and security features, ensuring controlled transition from TraceLink to ATTP without business interruption. - Systems and Process Integration: Partner with IT, Packaging, Quality, Global Supply Chain, internal and external manufacturing sites and downstream partners to assess and implement process, system, interface and data impacts, aligning technical change with operational readiness. - Testing and Validation: Plan and complete integration testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing; drive validation activities to meet cGMP and regulatory expectations across SAP ATTP, SAP S/4HANA and connected systems. - Change Management and Business Readiness: Develop and deliver training, communications and readiness plans that equip end users and partners to adopt new processes and technology confidently and effectively. - Operational Transition and Stabilisation: Provide domain expertise through cutover, deployment and hypercare; resolve system, process and data issues rapidly to protect supply continuity and compliance. - SOP Governance: Maintain and improve global SOPs covering serialisation and traceability, ensuring alignment with both current operations and future-state ATTP and S/4HANA processes. - Strategy Execution: Support the serialisation and traceability strategy and roadmap, define performance metrics, and set the foundation for long-term operational support that scales with our portfolio and market footprint. Essential Skills/Experience: Qualifications: - Industry Experience: 4+ years of demonstrated experience working in pharmaceutical, biotech, or manufacturing supply chain settings. - Serialization/Traceability: 2+ years of hands-on experience in serialization and/or product traceability. - Packaging and Supply Chain Knowledge: Solid understanding of pharmaceutical packaging processes and supporting supply chain functions (e.g., artwork/labeling, IT, distribution). - Adaptability: Validated ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment. - Regulatory Awareness: Working knowledge of the regulatory landscape for serialization and product traceability (e.g., EU FMD, DSCSA). - Packaging Line Technology: Understanding of packaging line processes and associated technologies. Competencies: - Project Management: Experience planning, driving, and delivering cross-functional projects, with clear ownership of scope, timeline, and risks. - Distribution and Traceability: Knowledge of distribution processes, preferably with direct exposure to product traceability workflows and systems. - Systems and Process Ownership: Experience owning computerized systems and associated business processes, including change control and user support. - Quality and Compliance: Knowledge of cGMP and traceability-related regulatory considerations in a pharmaceutical environment. - Communication and Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to collaborate effectively across functions and regions. - Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and influence internal and external partners. - Prioritization and Detail Orientation: Detail-oriented with the ability to lead multiple, challenging priorities and meet deadlines. - Team Contribution: A collaborative standout colleague who contributes to process optimization and supports an inclusive work culture. Desirable Skills/Experience: - Hands-on experience with SAP ATTP, SAP S/4HANA and TraceLink, including integrations to packaging line systems and ERP - Practical knowledge of GS1 standards, EPCIS event models and serialisation master data structures - Experience onboarding CMOs, third-party logistics providers and downstream trading partners - Demonstrated delivery of data migration, cutover and hypercare for regulated systems - Computer System Validation experience in a GxP context - Formal project management or change management certification - Exposure to market implementations for EU FMD, DSCSA and other regional regulations beyond core awareness - Experience creating and governing global SOPs and training for serialisation processes When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world. Why AstraZeneca: Join a company where protecting patients and advancing science go hand in hand with building modern, resilient supply chains. You will work with cutting-edge platforms like SAP S/4HANA and SAP ATTP alongside experts from packaging lines to data engineering, bringing unexpected teams into the same room to unleash bold thinking. We value kindness alongside ambition and give you the autonomy and support to design, build and scale solutions that matter. Your decisions will ripple from factory floor to pharmacy shelf, safeguarding therapies for people living with rare and devastating diseases, while you grow your impact and craft in a collaborative, mission-driven environment. **Date Posted** 16-Oct-2026 **Closing Date** 29-Oct-2026Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.