This is a remote opportunity with occasional travel, estimated at less than 10%.
At Kaléo, our way is not to seek to be like others, but rather to passionately pursue meaningful and innovative solutions for patients. We believe all people should have access to the innovative healthcare products and solutions that empower each of them to live fuller, bolder lives.
The Senior Manager, Supply Chain Planning and Logistics is responsible for the planning and logistics activities required to meet the approved commercial Supply Plans. This includes consigned materials, semi-finished goods and finished goods. This is highly visible position, as this person interacts cross-functionally and at all organizational levels.
As Senior Manager, Supply Chain Planning and Logistics you will:
- Perform supply planning to ensure demand/supply balance is maintained at all levels of the supply chains
- Manage the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle by preparing plans, information and metrics for Demand, Supply, S&OP and Executive S&OP meetings
- Maintain dashboards for broad audiences including the S&OP team and Executives
- Effectively and concisely communicate the details of the supply chain planning process to the S&OP team and Executives, providing enough information to make decisions, and additional details as requested
- Perform Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to ensure safety stocks are maintained and production requirements are met for all consigned materials, semi-finished goods and finished goods
- Issue approved monthly forecasts to suppliers as required by commercial supply agreements
- Develop, maintain and monitor adherence to direct spend budgets for all products
- Work directly with Finance to forecast and manage cost of goods sold (COGS)
- Understand key supply and capacity constraints and support capacity planning efforts
- Monitor supplier business compliance to established supply agreements
- Support business resilience process by identifying, reporting, and mitigating supply chain risks
- Coordinate and monitor domestic and international shipments for raw materials, semi-finished goods and finished products, serving as the primary point of contact with carriers, brokers, and freight forwarders
- Ensure Kaleo logistics operations are executed in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and standards
- Coordinate product serialization in accordance with FDA regulations, serving as the primary point of contact with Kaleo’s L4 provider and other serialization partners
- Collaborate with the Commercial team to coordinate 3PL and channel distribution activities and ensure availability of commercial supply
- Support change control, investigations, audits and other critical Quality processes
- Work with Quality team to monitor, track and communicate supplier performance
A successful Senior Manager, Patient Access Operations will have:
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills and experience using Microsoft Excel
- Significant experience with other MS Office Suite applications and other relevant software
- Data oriented and committed to management through data
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relationships and work collaboratively
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- A high sense of urgency and ability to work in a lean, agile environment
- Excellent planning and organizational skills to work within deadlines
- Growth mindset with desire to grow and learn new skills and expertise
- Dealing with ambiguity – must be able to plan effectively using assumptions and despite unknowns
- Comfort around higher management – can craft presentations and provide information that meets the needs of leadership
- Timely decision making – makes timely decisions, sometimes with incomplete information
- Decision quality – makes good decisions using a mixture of data, experience and judgement
- Informing – Provides the information people need to know to make accurate decisions
To be considered for the position, you must have:
- BS/BSE in science, engineering, supply chain management, or other related fields
- At least seven years of experience in supply chain roles of increasing responsibility
- Experience with supply chain business processes, including Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Supply chain experience in medical product, pharmaceutical, medical device or other related areas desired
- ASCM, ISM, Six Sigma or PMP certifications are desired
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