Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead (CSTL)

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The Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead is responsible for Therapeutic Area (TA) level operational leadership, including clinical supply strategy execution, resource management, and performance across an assigned TA. This role ensures consistent, high‑quality execution of planning, supply readiness, and asset/study support by directing Clinical Supply Leads (CSLs),, Trial Supply Managers (TSMs), and other subordinate staff. This role is accountable for TA-level prioritization, workload balancing, and overall operational performance across the portfolio.

The Director manages incoming assets and workload through a structured intake process, supports cross‑functional alignment, drives operational discipline, and ensures transparency through TA‑level metrics and dashboards. This role partners with senior 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 across the TA portfolio.

The Director promotes consistent ways of working, contributes to continuous improvement efforts to strengthen end‑to‑end clinical supply performance, and supports the development of future-ready talent within their assigned TA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead TA level intake for new studies, new assets, and major protocol changes including IRT awareness of changes, comparator needs, CMC driven supply requirements, and similar clinical supply activities.
• Assign and monitor assets across TA portfolio, balancing workload and resource allocation based on capacity, expertise, study tiering, and priority.
• Maintain a forward‑looking TA portfolio view to anticipate workload shifts, capacity constraints, and evolving resourcing needs across the TA.
• Ensure decisions and assignments are clearly documented and communicated within the TA as well as across CSC and partnering functions.
• Ensure consistent execution of end‑to‑end clinical supply planning and forecasting in close collaboration with CSLs and TSMs.
• Drive adherence to standardized processes/playbooks, escalation pathways, and governance expectations, recommending improvements as warranted.
• Act as the first point of resolution for cross‑study conflicts, operational trade‑offs, and timeline risks.
• Partner with GLS and CSC planning functions to ensure supply reliability, logistics coordination, issue resolution, and similar outcomes.
• Own TA-level workload balancing and capacity management, including intra- and inter-TA resource alignment.
• Ensure early visibility of upcoming/emergent changes (e.g., protocol amendments, enrollment escalations, site activations, country expansions) and coordinate timely CSC response.
• Facilitate regular TA operational review meetings to align stakeholders, assess resource allocations, track risks, and drive timely decisions.
• Own and leverage KPI dashboards to monitor performance, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Use Control Tower / E2E supply data to trend performance, identify bottlenecks, anticipate resource swings, and apply corrective actions.
• 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.
• Ensure all TA operations comply with GxP, inspection readiness expectations, and CSC quality processes.
• Provide direct line management, coaching, and development for assigned staff, and drive engagement and performance across TA teams.

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