Demand and Supply Management Team Leader

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB 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.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business/operations management (equivalent work experience may be considered)

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

• 5 years of supply chain and/or planning experience managing global supply chain design and logistics management, preferably as they relate to clinical program design and execution
• 3+ years proven experience with direct customer engagement in a customer-facing role with 3+ years of management experience

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Understanding of clinical supply requirements, phases of clinical development, and the factors that influence study designs preferred.
• Ability to apply sophisticated supply chain concepts and techniques.
• Travel required (perhaps as much as 10-15%). International travel may also be required.

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.Manages a team that provides specialized technical services to clients as part of our enhanced service offerings. Specifically, this team specializes in providing upfront and ongoing demand planning services, including early demand plans, global inventory optimization strategies, proactive inventory management, portfolio management, and IRT set-up consultation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads team’s global demand & supply plans and balances drug inventories. (Number of Direct Reports: 4-10)
• Leverage customers’ forecasts, real-time patient enrollment data/trends, planning software (i.e. Trial Set-up & Planning).
• Network capacity/utilization data.
• Confirms plans are robust and optimizes global and regional supply strategies.
• Solidifies connections between demand planning team and S&OP to align the latest forecast information is aggregated and coordinated into the divisional S&OP process
• Develops, implements, and monitors appropriate performance metrics requirements.
• Drive operational performance in cycle-time, cost, quality and risk mitigation.
• Proactively makes adjustments to ensure business success
• Partners with global and site project management teams and/or directly with the customer.
• Advise and proactively share key client data vital to facilitate an effective supply chain planning cycle.
• Leads and advocates a culture of proactive continuous process improvement.
• Acts as an SME and actively participates in initiatives in support of the overall efficiency of the Client Services organization
• Other duties may be assigned to meet the needs of the business
• 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.