[Hiring] Senior 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. 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

Your Role in that Mission:

As a member of Global Client Services, you are part of One Global Team: Empowered to Act, Make Connections and Get Results for our customers and their patients. As the Senior Demand and Supply Manager, you are part of a centralized team that provides specialized technical services to clients as part of our enhanced service offerings. Specifically, this role specializes in providing upfront and ongoing demand planning services for more complex clients or accounts, including:

• Early demand plans
• Global inventory optimization strategies
• Proactive inventory management
• Portfolio management
• IRT set-up consultation

This role acts as an informal leader in the Client Services team, supporting strategic development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business/operations management (equivalent work experience may be considered)
• 5+ years of clinical supply chain and/or planning experience managing global supply chain design and logistics management, preferably as they relate to clinical program design and execution
• 4+ years experience if holding an advanced degree
• Understanding of clinical supply requirements, phases of clinical development, and the factors that influence study designs preferred

Requirements

• Independently leads the design, implementation, interpretation, and review of inventory management plans to forecast supply plans of study drugs for global and sophisticated clinical trials.
• Informal leader within the team who looks to improve processes, tools, and resources for the organization.
• Provides mentorship and guidance for new hires and less experienced planners.
• Provides input into User Requirement Specifications of Interactive Response Technology (IRT) medication management module and completes User Acceptance Testing if required.
• Reviews IRT strategy to ensure it supports the strategic supply plans.
• Ensures plans are robust and optimizes global and regional supply strategies.
• Develops and provides clients with reports on actual project spend versus budget.
• Establishes connections between demand planning team and S&OP.
• Partners with the Enterprise Project Manager and global project management teams.
• Ensures temperature excursion process is performed as required.
• Establishes and maintains financial forecasts and monthly billing processes for assigned complex client projects.
• Assists in training and onboarding of new employees.
• Stays on top of relevant cGMPs, GCPs, and other regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrates and promotes company vision.
• Conducts activities in a safe and efficient manner.

Benefits

• To foster a sense of belonging and connection, remote employees are expected to keep their camera on and participate in video calls both internally and externally, as appropriate.