Business Process Excellence Manager (D365 & Data)

About the role

For our Animal Health organization, we are looking for a Business Process Excellence Manager to professionalize and integrate our business processes, data governance, and ERP landscape. 

Reporting to the Head of the Transformation Office, you will manage SAP and Dynamics 365 while moving toward a unified D365 environment. Ensuring clarity, consistency, and ownership across Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, and Quality.

The position is based across Espoo (Finland), Arendonk (Belgium), and Arques (France), with regular travel and close collaboration across sites.

The Mission: Improve, Innovate, and Integrate

Your mission is to optimize processes and reporting, strengthen master data, and create a single source of truth for reliable insights and decision-making.

The Four Strategic Domains & Team Leadership

You will lead and develop a small, specialized team of approximately four professionals across four strategic domains:

• D365 Process Excellence: Translate complex operations into optimized end-to-end processes within Dynamics 365 and related applications.
• Master Data Governance: Define and lead the Master Data Management strategy, ensuring data quality, ownership, consistency, and proper segregation of duties.
• Digital Transformation & Insights: Enable smarter reporting and analytics through Power BI, AI, and dashboards, in collaboration with BI specialists.
• Program Management: Lead the integrated roadmap, managing priorities, dependencies, budgets, and cross-functional alignment.

Your key responsibilities

• Own core processes and data flows, ensuring clarity and scalability.
• Lead the transition from SAP to D365, balancing short-term continuity with long-term transformation.
• Build strong data foundations for reliable reporting and decision-making.
• Coach and develop a multidisciplinary team, clarifying roles and priorities. 
• Collaborate with all functions to align business and system needs.
• Oversee transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

You will report directly to the Head of the Transformation Office and operate as a true partner in shaping the transformation agenda.

What we offer

• Strategic Impact: A central role in shaping how Animal Health operates, during a critical ERP and digital transformation phase.
• Leadership with Ownership: A position with real influence, autonomy, and visibility across the organization.
• International Environment: Work with expert teams across France, Belgium, and Finland.
• Transformation at Scale: The opportunity to professionalize processes and data in a growing, complex organization.
• Support & Trust: Room to take ownership, with strong backing from leadership.
• Long-Term Growth: Opportunities to grow and expand your impact over time.

Orion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment. At Orion, your work creates true impact and well-being for our customers, patients, and society.

Our culture of friendliness, respect, mutual appreciation, and diversity creates a safe working environment where you can strive for excellence. We offer a wealth of career paths and development opportunities that support innovative solutions and improving the quality of life.

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Our expectations

We are looking for a senior professional with strong experience of business processes, ERP systems, and data governance, experienced in leading people and complex transformations.

Required qualifications:

• Proven experience leading business process optimization and ERP-enabled transformation programs
• Strong functional knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365; experience with SAP is a strong advantage
• Program Management (PMO Skills) 
• Solid understanding of master data governance, data quality, and process ownership
• Experience in international, regulated environments
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Fluency in English; willingness to travel regularly between Espoo, Arendonk, and Arques

You're someone who:

• Bridges business and IT with clarity and credibility
• Takes ownership and brings structure to complexity
• Balances strategic thinking with pragmatic execution
• Builds trust across functions and levels
• Remains calm and focused in a changing transformation context

Ready to shape our digital backbone?

Please submit your resume and a brief motivation highlighting your experience in business process transformation and ERP environments by 28/02/2026.

If you have any questions about the position, feel free to contact Casper Soors, Talent Acquisition Specialist at Orion Animal Health. He will be happy to guide you through the next steps of our recruitment process.

We typically review applications already during the application period and may start interviewing candidates before the application deadline. Therefore, we invite you to send your application as soon as possible.

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About Animal Health

The mission of Animal Health is to improve the quality of life for animals. Animal Health manufactures and markets in-house developed medicines as well as numerous generic drugs for both companion and livestock animals. We are committed to making daily life healthier and less stressful for both animals and the people who care for them. 

We produce and distribute over 300 veterinary medicines and are present in over 100 markets around the world servicing the needs of our customers in both the companion animal and livestock sectors.   Our manufacturing and supply chain operations are located in France and Belgium. 

Animal health is a diverse team of over 300 professionals, based in 13 countries across Europe and Vietnam. We operate as one unified team, bringing together expertise from various departments including Sales, Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain, R&D, Quality Management, HR, Finance, and IT.  The Animal Health culture that we foster is one of collaboration, inclusivity, and innovation, where everyone feels empowered to contribute and challenge the status quo. We aim to prioritize the customer and work together toward shared goals.

Orion Pharma is a globally operating Nordic pharmaceutical company – a builder of well-being for over a hundred years.

We're home to more than 4,000 Orionees around the world, and we're proud to be known as a responsible employer and a great place to work. At Orion Pharma, people are truly valued and trusted, encouraged to grow, and supported by a culture where every voice is heard. We appreciate each other, strive for excellence, and build the future.

Together we develop, manufacture, and market human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Our extensive portfolio includes proprietary and generic medicines as well as consumer health products. The core therapy areas of our pharmaceutical R&D are oncology and pain. Proprietary products developed by Orion Pharma are used to treat cancer, neurological diseases, respiratory diseases, and more.

We offer careers with a clear purpose: empowering people to live their lives to the fullest.

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