Director, Global Lab Supply Chain

Build a sustainable a global supply chain organization for Analytical services and development including all areas of support such as subcontracting, purchasing, sourcing, forecasting, capacity planning and financial costing.

Create, execute and maintain global supply chain processes for harmonization and transparency of global supply chain processes

Provide direction, oversight and development of team members within the global supply chain organization

Collaborate with procurement and sourcing to identify inventory/supply contracts

Oversee forecasting processes with collaboration with business development and project management teams for project pipeline

Determine and onboard appropriate capacity planning tool/system

Work with Lab Operations team for capacity planning

Work with finance and processes for financial costing and planning

Support the development of procurement strategies and supplier relationship plans that are inventive and focused on providing best value for the global organization

Facilitate, drive and take responsibility for timely decision-making and resolution of conflicts within the global supply chain team and raise issues to appropriate management level when needed

Oversee full life cycle supplier management activities including strategies to maximize competition, negotiations, and management of supplier performance

Coordinate staff with the contracts organization to ensure proper flow-downs of contract requirements, terms and conditions

Responsible to track all agreed global supply chain KPIs and report as per agreed

Continuously improve global supply chain processes and log lessons learned to share key learning and insights within the organization in support of collective knowledge bases.

Other responsibilities as assigned

Minimum Education requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 10+ years of relevant experience or master’s degree with 5+ years of prior relevant experience

Prior Employment Experience:

Knowledge/experience of pharmaceutical product development, from concept through to product launch

Good Pharma knowledge and experience of pharma product development from concept to submission

Experience with base operations procurements in Analytical Services, pharmaceutical and/or medical device

Cross functional team leadership experience

Strong management and leadership skill

Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment

Systems Experience:

Familiarity with D365, LIMS and LMS

Other Skills required:                                    (computer, language, etc.)

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Microsoft Office Suite including Project and Visio, strong communication and presentation skills