Global Supply and Strategy Director
Macclesfield (UK) Gaithersburg (USA)
Are you ready to contribute to the strategic optimisation of product supply chains within the Oncology or Vaccines or Immune Therapy Area at AstraZeneca?
We have two brand-new opportunities to join the Oncology or Vaccines & Immune Therapies functions.
About the role
As the Global Supply Chain and Strategy Director, you will play a pivotal role in establishing and optimising product supply chains throughout their lifecycle, using your expertise to make data-driven recommendations for investment decisions. Your leadership will extend to providing product/brand guidance to senior managers within Operations and representing Operations and product supply on AstraZeneca's Global Product Teams and other senior product partner forums.
This is a pivotal role within GSC&S and Global Operations. You will have overall strategic accountability for establishing and optimizing the design and performance of our supply chains throughout the lifecycle for a portfolio of products in one of our key Therapy Areas to drive excellent customer service, responsiveness and cost.
This is your chance to drive excellent customer service, responsiveness and cost, and make a bigger impact on patients.
You will represent your Supply Chains on the Global Product cross functional Teams, which develop, commercialize and optimize brands across the Oncology and Vaccines & Immunology in AstraZeneca. You will be the key link managing these relationships via a single point of contact.
You will also have a critical interface role to ensuring forecasts are regularly aligned with Oncology & V&I and Marketing Companies, and the impact incorporated into the Product Strategy Plans.
As the Operations brand owners, you will have full accountability for productive collaboration with site and functional representatives deployed around the world on the strategic direction of the brand, which will be translated into current and future supply plans, including recommendation for additional capacity/investment where needed. You will take accountability for the supply chain whilst the brand in clinical development (Phase II/III) all the way through to the end of the life cycle for the brand.
You will work with the sites to optimize your brands' value chain and specifically the Cost of Goods for your brands. You are also accountable for comprehensive supply risk management across your supply chains, and for creating and deploying robust Business Continuity plans to avoid supply disruption. You and your global matrix team will manage all of the strategic changes for your brands and ensure launches happen on time.
In this role, you will regularly represent your brands in senior key governance interactions such as reviews at the senior Operations governance forum, Supply Committee or in reviews with the Operations EVP and colleagues. This broad, senior-level visibility will give you the opportunity to continually demonstrate your communication, influencing and partner management skills.
Key accountabilities
• Apply your knowledge and expertise to craft, establish and optimize product supply chains throughout the lifecycle for a portfolio of products within a Therapy Area. This may require you to make recommendations for investment decisions, demonstrating your supply chain financial foresight.
• Provide product/brand leadership to other senior managers within Operations and represent Operations and product supply on AstraZeneca's Global Product Teams and in other senior product partner forums.
• Optimize performance of current supply chains including using lean methodologies to improve supply chain lead-time.
• Have accountability for improving product Cost Of Goods throughout the lifecycle.
• Work across the Global Supply group to deliver end-to-end Supply Chain operational performance critical metrics and support initiatives to optimize inventory.
• Own and manage the product business continuity plans for your brands and ensure a constant state of readiness to ensure product supply.
• Lead and direct a matrixed supply chain team to complete the brand strategy and deliver key supply chain changes.
• Deliver successful, seamless, timely new product launches to parameters agreed with our Oncology and Biopharma Business Units.
• Be responsible for multi-region supply issue resolution to successful conclusion, including demand allocation/prioritization.
Essential Skills & Capabilities
• Specific experience within the Therapy area of Oncology or Vaccines & Immune Therapy is critical.
• Specific Biologics experience is also critical.
• Experience working with senior leaders in an organisation.
• Demonstrated in-depth experience in end-to-end supply chain management, lean supply chains, and data integrity.
• Demonstrated proficiency in supply strategy development, influencing, teamwork, enterprise thinking, relationship management, financial foresight product costing and case developme
Location: Gaithersburg, MD
Posted: Oct. 14, 2024, 8:36 a.m.
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