E2E Supply Planner

Role Overview

• Plans and manages the day-to-day activities of Clinical Supplies department such as packaging, labeling, assembling and shipping of clinical supplies used in clinical trials.
• Responsible for the department's clinical supplies database records maintenance, protocol evaluation, coding of samples, and storage of approved materials.
• Complies to local regulatory and good manufacturing practices guidelines.
• Develop E2E supply plans for clinical compounds.
• Identify the underlying assumptions for Kit/DP/API supply plan through the cS&OP process.
• Develop optimal end-to-end drug product and drug substance supply strategies for compounds that minimize waste while meeting the timelines and needs of the Clinical Trial Material supply plans.
• Create drug product and drug substance supply plans by aggregating clinical demand across different trials as well as non-clinical demands, to ensure timely delivery, testing and release of clinical batches.
• Provide information to the Supply Network Capacity Planners and Plant Schedulers to allow constrained master and/or detailed scheduling of batches in the CSC supply network in line with the trial requirements and in line with critical raw material and component availability.
• Drive structured improvements of functional processes in line with business or operational strategy.
• Ensure portfolio timelines and business performance goals, objectives and metrics are achieved, including consistency with GMP guidelines and all other compliance requirements.
• Lead and/or supporting cross-functional and cross-departmental projects to improve business process/tools.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of related experience is required.
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in business or science is required.
• Experience with several of the following supply planning processes: inventory management, supply chain management, supply planning, production planning, Lean and 6sigma, systems (OMP, SAP R/3 or ERP), other cross-functional supply chain processes is required.
• Strong leadership skills: Managing complexity, conflict, and ability to identify process gaps based on data or root cause analysis, ability to predict risk/impact of supply related processes are required.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and appropriately to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms is required.
• The ability to work independently, multi-task and manage complexity is required.
• An innate aim to make the difference and achieve results is required.
• Continuous improvement in attitude and innovative thinking that will help see opportunities and related business needs is required.
• Insight into a clinical supply environment in a pharmaceutical industry, its characteristics and constraints and Q&C requirements is preferred.
• Experience with GMP and/or Quality management systems and processes is preferred.

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.
• vacation days
• parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks
• bereavement leave
• caregiver leave
• volunteer leave
• well-being reimbursement
• programs for financial, physical and mental health
• service anniversary and recognition awards
• subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees
• and in some locations eligible dependents
• can participate in several insurance plans.