Associate Director, Supplier Relationship Management

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Master's Degree in Engineering, Biotechnology, or related field.

• 10+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical or related industry     

• Certification in lean manufacturing principles and Six Sigma tools

• Operations experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing to cGMP standards including extensive knowledge of regulatory guidelines and validation practices

• Working knowledge of pharmaceutical development and commercialization processes.

• Knowledge of suppliers, industry trends and emerging players in global pharmaceutical manufacturing services

• Strong presentation and communication skills both, oral and written - Fluency in English

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong ability in negotiating and influencing without authority in complex, high impact situations

• Successful track record in execution and completion of objectives.

• Ability to apply technical and cross-functional expertise to address complex operations problems.

• Ability to effectively transfer complex knowledge regarding science and engineering procedures.

• Demonstrated team leadership skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional & multi-location teams

• Demonstrated financial and project management skills

• Demonstrated capability in implementing challenging goals, objectives and practices in a complex and ambiguous environment

• Demonstrated success negotiating complex supply and toll manufacturing agreements with external suppliers.

• Experience of a culturally diverse workplace through international projects or global teams.

• Strong strategic and analytical thinking, problem solving and rapid decision making skills

• Demonstrated proficiency in competency areas of Strategic Agility, Organizational Agility, Business Acumen, Process Design and Management, Organization Change Management

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the Virtual Plant Team model

• Act as a primary point of contact for all business collaborations ensuring that the overall relationship is healthy:

• Responsible for performance monitoring & reporting and ensuring compliance with contractual terms

• Collaborate with Quality Operations on quality system and compliance activities

• Drive continuous improvement of the overall business relationship

• Collaborate on forecasting, production planning and supply chain business process activities to ensure continuity of supply and avoidance of back-orders Act as primary point of contact for communications and resolution of supply chain and technical issues that may impact timely supply of product and/or contractual obligations

• Proactively identify supply risks and create strategies to avoid or minimize their impact

• Manage inventory risk assessment process for inventory located at manufacturing site. Lead efforts to manage and execute risk mitigation plans.

• Lead cross functional teams in implementing and managing processes between BMS, internal sites and CMOs.

• Accountable for establishing and managing the technical transfer start-up and spend budgets for assigned manufacturing site and the associated variances.

• Identify opportunities for improvements and execute Operational

• Excellence and Process Improvement/Best Practices.

• Establish Standard Business Processes to accelerate pipeline development, commercialization  and end to end supply chain excellence

• Identify, evaluate, select