Sr. Director, Supply Chain QA

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Position Summary:

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Ultragenyx is seeking an experienced Senior Director, Supply Chain Quality to provide global quality leadership and oversight across packaging, labeling, global logistics, distribution, and external supply chain partners supporting both clinical and commercial products. 

This role is accountable for establishing and maintaining a robust global Good Distribution Practice (GDP) quality framework that ensures compliant, reliable, and patient centric delivery of biologics, small molecule, antisense oligonucleotide (ASO), and gene therapy products. The successful candidate will bring deep hands-on experience with global GDP requirements, temperature controlled supply chains, and complex international distribution networks, and will serve as the quality authority for supply chain operations across internal teams and external partners. 

As a senior quality leader, this role will shape strategy, build organizational capability, and drive continuous improvement across the supply chain while ensuring inspection readiness and regulatory compliance globally. 

Work Model: 

Flex: This role will typically require onsite work 2-3 days each week, or more depending on business needs. In many locations, the business will set certain days each week that Flex employees are required to be onsite. 

Responsibilities:

• Provide global quality leadership and oversight for supply chain, packaging, labeling, warehousing, transportation, and distribution activities supporting clinical and commercial products.  

• Establish, implement, and maintain a robust global Good Distribution Practice (GDP) quality strategy, ensuring compliance with FDA, EMA, MHRA, WHO, PIC/S, and other applicable global regulations.  

• Serve as the Quality subject matter expert for complex global distribution models, including cold chain, ultra-cold chain, and controlled ambient logistics.  

• Provide QA oversight of packaging and labeling operations, including artwork approval, labeling controls, serialization/traceability, tamper-evident systems, and country-specific labeling requirements.  

• Lead qualification, oversight, and performance monitoring of external supply chain