Director, Clinical Supply Lead (CSL)

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The Director, Clinical Supply Lead is responsible for day-to-day leadership, direction, and oversight for forecasting, planning, and end-to-end (E2E) clinical supply chain activities for assigned compounds, studies, and projects within a Therapeutic Area (TA). This role ensures consistent, high‑quality execution of planning, supply readiness, and asset/study support through close partnership with peer Clinical Supply Leads, Trial Supply Managers (TSMs), and other intra‑study team members.

The Director manages incoming assets and workload through a structured intake process, supports cross‑functional alignment, drives execution discipline, and ensures transparency through asset/study‑level metrics and dashboards. This role partners with appropriate leaders in GDO, CMC, Regulatory, Quality, GLS, CSO, and other CSC stakeholders to promote collaboration and strategic foresight as well as to ensure timely decision‑making, appropriate issue escalation, and operational risk mitigation for their assigned portfolio.

The Director promotes efficient and effective ways of working, contributes to continuous improvement efforts to strengthen end‑to‑end clinical supply performance, forecasting and planning, and clinical supply chain excellence.  The Director assists the CSC and TA leadership teams in the effective collaboration, coordination, performance, and execution of CSC support to assigned programs as well as the creation and sustainment of a data-enabled CSL ecosystem integrated with common systems, tools, and emerging technologies (including, but not limited to, AI).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead TA level intake and planning activities for assigned new studies, new assets, and major protocol changes including IRT awareness of changes, comparator needs, CMC driven supply requirements, and similar clinical supply activities in coordination with Clinical Supply Team Lead (CSTL).
• Provide matrix leadership to oversee and coordinate the efforts, priorities and outputs of intra-study CSLs, TSMs, and other CSC team members based on capacity, expertise, study tiering, and other relevant data.
• Establishes and maintains a clear framework for decision-making, empowering team members and informing them about decisions at both team and governance/executive levels.
• Coach and hold accountable your asset matrix team and develop and execute clinical supply strategies for assigned assets/studies.
• Acts as the main Clinical Supply Chain contact person for the assigned compound and associated studies, leading communications regarding global supply strategy with study team as appropriate.
• Serve as the first point of resolution for conflicts, trade-offs, and risks associated with the assigned compound and associated studies.
• Drive adherence to standardized processes/playbooks, escalation pathways, and governance expectations, recommending improvements as warranted.
• Lead matrix team to develop integrated cross-functional strategies, resourcing, and implementation plans, ensuring continuous supply of investigational product in alignment with Project Team strategies, priorities, and objectives.
• Align functional execution plans and resources with approved supply strategies, trial priorities, and timelines, ensuring coherence between global supply strategy, Project Team objectives, and Clinical Supply Chain management objectives.
• Oversees development of supply forecasts for complex studies through the evaluation, assessment, and refinement of the clinical development plan and protocol analysis. Ensures monitoring of inventory and drug utilization versus the forecast considering country requirements and logistical timelines.
• Develops supply forecasts for complex stud