[Hiring] Manager, Trade & Distribution @Liquidia

Role Description

The Manager, Trade & Distribution role is responsible for overseeing order management and the company's third-party logistics (3PL) partner(s) to ensure efficient, compliant, and cost-effective product flow from warehouse to customer. This role owns the order management process from order intake through shipment confirmation, as well as 3PL performance and operations, while ensuring distribution practices comply with applicable pharmaceutical regulations such as the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and state licensing requirements. The role serves as the primary liaison between the company, its 3PL warehouse and distribution provider, and internal Finance, Quality, and Supply Chain teams. This is a full-time, remote-based position reporting to the Senior Director, Trade Relations, within Market Access.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field required. MBA a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in order management, 3PL or warehouse management, distribution, or supply chain operations, preferably within pharmaceutical, healthcare, or consumer packaged goods environments.
• Hands-on experience managing 3PL relationships, including SLA and KPI management and business reviews.
• Strong working knowledge of order management processes, including order entry, validation, exception handling, allocation, and shipment coordination.
• Working knowledge of DSCSA and other regulatory requirements governing pharmaceutical distribution.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and vendor management abilities.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time, including periodic on-site visits to 3PL facilities.

Requirements

• Experience supporting a specialty pharmaceutical product distributed through a limited specialty pharmacy or specialty distributor network.
• Experience supporting a commercial product launch, including 3PL implementation and EDI trading partner onboarding.
• Familiarity with ERP and order management platforms and with 3PL customer portals.
• Working knowledge of chargeback, government pricing, and gross-to-net processes that depend on distribution data.
• Understanding of state wholesale distributor licensing and accreditation requirements.
• Experience with cold chain distribution and temperature excursion management.
• Familiarity with rare disease or pulmonary hypertension therapeutic areas.
• Experience working in a smaller or growth-stage biopharmaceutical environment where the role carries both strategic and hands-on responsibility.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Analytical and data-driven approach to decision-making, with the ability to build and interpret operational reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendor and 3PL performance and hold partners accountable to contractual commitments.
• Process rigor, with high levels of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Regulatory and compliance acumen, with sound judgment on when and how to escalate.
• Effective problem-solving under ambiguity, with a bias toward resolving issues rather than routing them.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present performance results to leadership.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).