Senior Analyst ITP Forensics

Strategic Planning Analyst

Be a part of a revolutionary change.

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Wherever you join our crucial 47,000-strong Operations team, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact. PMI’s shift from selling cigarettes to our new smoke-free products has changed the way we work. New products bring new challenges – in the way we source and buy raw materials, in the way we engineer and manufacture, and in our supply chain planning.

Bring us your curiosity and a desire to challenge the everyday, and we’ll give you lots of responsibility. You’ll help us improve, inject innovation and create new ways of working. You’ll be solving supply chain problems that span the whole world: a smoke-free world.

For our Illicit Trade Prevention’s (ITP) team, based in London, we are currently looking for a Senior Analyst ITP Forensics

This role holder will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in tobacco products and Smoke Free Products (SFP) (incl. Illicit products) forensics and fulfill PMI’s legal and court requirements as Intellectual Property (IP) right holder. While contributing to the development of innovative methodologies, features and tools to protect and authenticate PMI products, generating product intelligence on illicit products to support ITP strategies and activities, and law enforcement investigations and litigation actions.

Key accountabilities:

Product authentication: perform PMI products authentication within a timely and satisfactory manner, for both our combustible (CC) and smoke free (SFP) category.
Product Intelligence:
perform product analyses, from Empty Pack Surveys’ samples to investigations and evidence materials, as well as from consumer complaints, test purchases, SFP device returns, in-market sampling, SFP recycling hubs, etc.
Product Forensics and Investigative support: perform forensics evaluation of samples of potentially illicit tobacco products stemming from various sources.
Organize and perform onsite inspections of raided illegal factories (manufacturing premises), aiming to support authorities in the fight against illicit manufacturing of tobacco products (incl. CC and SFP).
Trigger or support follow-up actions.
Represent the company in various events, incl. witness hearings or other legal proceedings, acting as PMI’s SME in product authentication and forensics.
Perform enhanced profiling of illicit products (“grouping”), aiming to support ongoing investigations or provide product intelligence to internal and external partners.
Product Security Features (PSF): use in practice PMI PSFs and verify their functionality, providing factual and constructive feedback on their presence and effectiveness to the supervisors or personnel in charge.
Supplier Liaison Program (SLP): support or contribute to the process by collecting information, gathering evidence and materials as part of ongoing forensics activities (e.g., factory raids follow-ups, company checks etc.).
SFP:
Actively contribute to protecting the consumer journey and the fast-evolving product lifecycle and distribution models, by analyzing samples stemming from manufacturing through distribution to sales, and its reverse logistics (returns and recycling).
Provide SME expertise for the new products in PMI’s portfolio, incl. launches and markets resulting from PMI business agreements, mergers or acquisitions.
Supply Chain Integrity: actively support and contribute to the process of fulfillment of PMI regulatory or internal obligations included in PMI’s Anti-Diversion programs. By responding to external and internal partners requests for technical expertise and product forensics,
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) through technical assistance:
deliver, support and / or assist in technical training program deliverables to law enforcement authorities aiming at building their capability in tackling illicit trade.
Support building the “external engagement corridors” for further follow-up actions.
Industry Technical Alliance: contribute to process by ensuring the relevant technical information, samples and forensics info availability, when applicable.
Forensics IT Systems: contribute to maintenance and continuous improvements process of ITP system(s) in place.
3rd party support personnel supervision: supervise and coordinate a potential pool of external vendors or service providers contracted for support in product authentication, inspections, and analyses (incl. EPS pack analysis).
We are looking for someone with;

University (master or bachelor degree), preferably in Technical Sciences.
Strong experience in the tobacco industry or other consumer goods industry, preferably in product forensics at the anti-counterfeit / anti-illicit trade department or similar.
Know-how of technical examination techniques for products and forensics evaluation, incl. chemical and qualitative analysis methodologies and external laboratories network.
Knowledge of SFPs and vaping products, incl. electronics, SFP consumables and oral products category.
Project Management - Certified project management skills, incl. international and cross-functional projects coordination and supervision.
People Management - Supervision and daily coordination of the external vendors and subcontractors / external inspectors.
What we offer:

Our success depends on the talented people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

Role

Role DescriptionSupport the strategic planning process in the local Affiliate. Analyze & report key manufacturing performance indicators and develop operation plans in capacity & resources for OB/LRP periods in order to fulfill customer requirements with optimum operations performance.Consolidate affiliate's OB/RFs in terms of Manufacturing KPIs and HC.Ensure timely data availability for Factory PDCA.Support the deployment of OPEN+ across the factory in line with our client's OPEN+ Strategy, consolidate and align IOS deployment coordinating RTT affiliate teams and Pillars teams.Monitor the impact of OPEN+ deployment in what concerns capability building and business impact.Work with close relationship with communication representative in the design and implementation of the factory OPEN+ communication strategy.Deliver value through adopting and improving our client's/region best practices in a standardized and systematic way.ResponsibilitiesSupport the preparation of the Affiliate Strategic Plan (LRP) aligned with our client's LRP, integrating functional activities which addresses key business needs and required resources serving as a frame for functional objective setting, KPI's and communication of priorities.Support strategic & multi-disciplinary projects and initiatives (at local and regional level), which requires vision, creativity and a systematic and cross functional perspective. Prepare strategic analysis, scenarios, alternatives and business processes, re-design proposals, feasibility studies etc.(within the framework of the LRP process and/or pro-actively, based on emerging business needs and opportunities), in order to enable Affiliate manufacturing management to take appropriate decisions to achieve Zero Loss Journey objectives and improve manufacturing cost performance.Maintain interface with central Ops functions (Capacity and Sourcing, PPMD, Customer Service, CoE, etc.): locally support and validate global initiatives, escalate Local strategic initiatives.Cooperate with Operations in the preparation and collection of information regarding the Manufacturing Assumptions, the main Company KPIs and the productivity and cost optimization initiatives for accurate and timely financial processing.Prepare the monthly reporting in cooperation with Ops Finance.Act as site data integrity owner & closely work with Production team to ensure reliability of data Monitor and communicate regularly the impact of OPEN+ deployment in what concerns Capability Building status and business impact.Ensure efficient communication and visualization on OPEN+ strategy, roadmap and actions to guarantee maximum awareness.Engage management teams and key stakeholders into communications plans.Drive the follow-up of Productivity and Cost Optimization Initiatives process within the Factory, working closely with all departments and initiative leaders in ensuring the budgeted delivery of productivity savings and overall Regional targets. Drive ideation workshops with all departments and employees in the continuous search for Productivity initiatives and ways of optimizing processes and products.Follow-up and report the implementation of Stage Gate Manufacturing Productivity Initiatives and other Manufacturing strategic plans. Support the timely adjustment of plans.Prepare the presentations, for affiliate management team meetings. Support strong cross functional relationship within and outside of Operations in ensuring timely and consistent communication throughout Ops planning community.Promote and apply all rules concerning our client's Quality, environment, health and safety.Report all situations requiring actions in order to minimize or eliminate risks exposure to personnel, company assets and societal impacts and be in line with or ahead of any applicable Law requirements and Company standards.lead the collection of machine performance parameters and optimize the schedules of the various Manufacturing resources such as available manning, calendars for Maintenance, Trainings, Trials, and Engineering to provide Site Integrated Planning (SIP) team the necessary manufacturing constraints on resources as an input for production planning in SIP.Coordinate on daily basis with SIP resolution of production plan deviations according to DDS and on weekly basis validation and optimization of production plan provided by SIP.RequirementsEntry level of the job requires supervision to perform the responsibilities of the job. Has basic knowledge about operations processes, KPI's, budget preparation. Works with wide autonomy. Expected to provide guidance on budgets, KPI’s improvements to less experienced professionals, and can coordinate the work of others.Has strong business acumen, strategic thinking, initiates and coordinates process improvements and independently leads multifunctional projects. Acts as process owner.Master degree in Engineering, Finance or similar education1-3 years in Manufacturing/Operations environment, preferably in multinational companies. Experiences in Production, Management Control, Lean Manufacturing or Operations Analysis and Reporting is a plusFluent in both French & English .Customer Focus and Action Oriented.Organizational Agility & Efficiency.

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