Senior Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead (CSTL)

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The Senior Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead is a strategic and operational leader accountable for Therapeutic Area (TA) level operational strategy, performance, and end-to-end execution of clinical supply activities. This role owns TA-level prioritization, workload balancing, and performance management across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with CSC and GDO objectives.

The Clinical Supply Team Lead directs Clinical Supply Leads (CSL), Trial Supply Managers (TSMs), and other team members by balancing workload, resolving operational conflicts, and achieving operational excellence by driving execution and accountability. The leader partners closely with cross functional teams, including GDO, CMC, Regulatory, Quality, GLS, CSO, and Finance, to promote collaboration and strategic foresight as well as to anticipate demand, manage risk, allocate resources, and ensure alignment with clinical development priorities.

This role also serves as a key contributor to CSC’s digital, analytical, and continuous improvement agenda leveraging data, AI enabled insights, and standardized processes/playbooks to strengthen supply chain reliability, reduce risk, and improve speed for patients.  This role also supports the development of future-ready talent within their assigned TA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide TA-level strategic direction and operational leadership across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with clinical development priorities.
• Facilitate regular strategic discussions with TA Leads and stakeholders to ensure alignment, rapidly resolve issues, anticipate resource swings, and share forward-looking insights.
• Serve as the TA’s primary point of coordination for new assets, new studies, and incoming work, ensuring rapid assessment, appropriate coordination, and structured assignment paths.
• Own and oversee TA-level capacity planning and workload balancing, including intra- and inter- TA resource alignment across CSLs, TSM, and supporting roles.
• Own and leverage Control Tower / CSSSA and TA-level performance data to monitor KPIs, anticipate demand, and drive performance improvement.
• Lead the intake process for all new requests (CMC, GDO, IRT, etc.), including chairing intake meetings and making CSL/TSM assignment decisions based on expertise, capacity, study prioritization, and other relevant managerial/operational factors.
• Act as first-line decision-maker for cross-study or cross-asset conflicts, study prioritization, escalation/acceleration handling, and trade-off alignment across the TA and between TAs, as needed.
• Anticipate risks and proactively intervene or escalate to avoid near misses, delays, or supply disruptions across the TA.  Lead root cause analyses when misses, delays, or supply disruptions occur.
• Serve as the TA's senior representative during portfolio reviews, scenario planning, pipeline acceleration discussions, and integration activities (e.g., due diligence, new modalities).
• Contribute to improving CD&OP maturity by reinforcing consistent inputs, process discipline, and cross‑functional engagement.  More tactically ensure the appropriate projects are being escalated up the CD&OP process to achieve rapid resolution.
• Own TA-level KPI frameworks, dashboards, and performance metrics to monitor execution, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Drive data-enabled decision-making, leveraging AI-enabled insights and validated data sets to guide operational improvements, assess resource allocations and inform timely, actionable future planning.
• Partner with other Clinical Supply Team Leads to ensure intra- and inter-TA harmonization, alignment, coordination, continuous