[Hiring] Demand and Supply Manager @Thermo Fisher Scientific

Role Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

We are the Clinical Trials Division (CTD): We Supply the Hope that Changes Lives - Global (remote). CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time - a concept that we internally adopt as "There is a Patient Waiting." Our unique blend of services includes:

• Project management
• Packaging
• Distribution
• Transportation management
• Specialty logistics
• Ancillary supply management
• Clinical supply optimization
• Bio-repository storage

Our more than 4000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

A Day in the Life:

• Design, Implement, Interpret and Review inventory management plan to forecast supply plan of study drugs to global clinical trials, using sound supply chain techniques.
• Provide input into User Requirement Specifications of Interactive Response Technology (IRT) medication management module and complete User Acceptance Testing if required.
• Review IRT strategy to ensure it supports the strategic supply plans and that IRT settings are adjusted to optimize the supply and demand.
• Ensure plans are robust and optimize global and regional supply strategies to ensure continuity of subject supply in the most effective and efficient manner.
• Develop and provide clients with reports on actual project spend versus budget.
• Establish connections between demand planning team and S&OP ensuring the latest forecast information is aggregated and integrated into the divisional S&OP process.
• Partner with the Enterprise Project Manager, along with global and site project management teams and/or directly with the customer to proactively share key client data to facilitate an effective supply chain planning cycle.
• Ensure temperature excursion process is performed as required.
• Establish and maintain financial forecasts and monthly billing processes for assigned client projects.
• Assist in training and onboarding of new employees (buddy concept).
• Stay on top of relevant cGMPs, GCPs, and other regulatory requirements and ensure study management activities are aligned.
• Demonstrate and promote company vision.
• Conduct activities in a safe and efficient manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business/operations management preferred.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Requirements

• 4 to 5 years of supply chain and/or planning experience leading global supply chain design and logistics management, preferably as they relate to clinical program design and execution.
• Understanding of clinical supply requirements, phases of clinical development, and the factors that influence study designs preferred.
• Requires strong eye for business including the ability to understand the manufacturing process and how cost impacts the overall business.
• Requires enhanced PC knowledge and skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) products.
• Requires interpersonal social skills and the ability to lead and work in teams including client services, technical, planning, and financial expertise.
• Requires excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.
• APICS certification or equivalent preferred.

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