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Position Summary

The Demand & Operations Integration Lead is a key component of R&D Supply Chain and acts as a central point of contact for portfolio asset teams during demand planning in support of the R&D clinical trial book of work and CMC development activities. This position is accountable for the development, maintenance, and communication of demand plans to ensure that Product Development (PD) supply operations are aligned in delivering bulk drug substance and drug product to satisfy the requirements of the development process.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, develop, and manage demand plans in support of clinical programs and CMC Development Team activities across the R&D portfolio. Communicate regularly with sources of demand generation and solicit raw demand requirements from stakeholders.
• Collaborate to ensure forecasts are developed for supported activities over a 24-month period. Collect and vet supporting assumptions, demand drivers, and risks associated with the raw demand requirements. 
• Receive, assess, and manage changes to existing plans through a regular S&OP process. Communicate changes to requirements and identify demand requirements that are outside of currently budgeted or approved commitments.
• Perform the inventory management function for drug product and drug substance materials supporting R&D clinical trials; allocate at the batch level, communicate the current and future inventory position in partnership with operations functions, and ensure inventory availability.
• Participate or lead business process development efforts in support of nascent R&D Supply Chain functions. Contribute to the development of IT tools to enable R&D Supply Chain excellence.
• Collaborate with Clinical Supply Chain to ensure that bulk drug forecasts are incorporated into demand plans and adequately represent clinical requirements. Translate product demands between value chain levels by understanding product presentation requirements and bill of material relationships.
• Support CMC teams in conducting scenario planning exercises & develop and utilize tools to assess demand/supply implications to inform teams during strategy development process.
• Interface and develop rapport with upstream and downstream stakeholders to enable efficient operations for demand requirements and the development of balanced outcomes.
• Ensure plans are risk-adjusted in alignment with PD strategy by merging changing information sets into reasonable and defendable plans.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors with 5 years of experience in biopharmaceutical industry planning or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered; APICS certifications preferred
• Prior experience within a supply chain function
• Familiarity with operations in an S&OP process
• Knowledge of regulatory and GMP frameworks related to clinical use of bulk drug substance/drug product
• Knowledge of the drug development process and clinical trials
• Demonstrated ability to work in the absence of concrete data by merging changing information sets into reasonable and defendable plans

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