Head of Site Supply Chain

CSL Plasma•Holly Springs, NC

About The Position

As the functional lead for the Supply Chain at the manufacturing site, you are accountable for the definition and execution of all activities required to ensure timely service to our customers. Reporting to the Seqirus Head of Supply Chain, you will be responsible for planning of site operations, inventory management, warehouse management, placing orders for direct materials, pandemic readiness, and detailed and rigorous preparation for campaigns. You will be an important member of the Site Leadership Team, contributing to site performance, culture, safety, and quality. As an essential member of the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team, the role holder contributes to overall Supply Chain strategy and aligns site operations through S&OP and individual product strategies. The role partners across global and local team members to align with global processes and standards, ensuring delivery to customer expectations. The role includes ownership for assigned products, representing operations at cross-functional forums, ensuring agreement between planned future commercial and development activities and Supply Chain operational strategies.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in business, or technical field relevant to our industry
Extensive understanding of Supply Chain operations from sourcing to product delivery
Experience working in a matrix environment where cross-collaboration is necessary
Interdisciplanry experience across manufacturing, planning, logistics and purchasing
ERP system knowledge with preference for SAP
Strong analytical skills, with ability to address complexity and problem-solving
10 years relevant experience including 4+ years of leadership experience

Nice To Haves

Preferable understanding of a vaccine supply chain process, including Regulatory and Quality elements
Masters Degree preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

Lead the site delivery of seasonal and pandemic campaigns, developing and directing the site Planning function to ensure robustness in the plan and that all manufacturing and procurement plans meet customer contract requirements while supporting Seqirus business goals.
Responsible for all site capacity planning models and ensuring appropriate and accurate information is incorporated into global strategic plans; analyze, develop, and implement long-term planning strategies with the network strategy, collaborating with teams inside and outside the organization.
Drive and facilitate the Site Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, generating data and with key responsibility for supporting S&OP meetings and processes.
Work with Global Planning & Commercial to understand and interpret forecasts and global operational plans and defines, manages site processes to deliver required outcomes, including optimum inventory levels, to support product manufacture and pandemic preparedness.
Drive continuous improvement of Supply Chain planning processes and manages deployment of new processes and applications.
Ensure decisions are escalated with accurate financial analysis to support decision-making, including manufacture of non-commercial materials (e.g., clinical trials and technology transfers).
Lead the Annual Strain Update (ASU) and approval processes for all markets and products for the site-owned influenza products, ensuring all ASU activities are performed following a Playbook approach across all departments.
Direct the execution of the campaign, including batch release, to ensure supply according to a lock supply plan.
Ensure all site teams are involved and governed to ensure campaign success.
Drive the pre- and post campaign review processes to challenge assumptions, work with other Seqirus locations to share learnings and drive faster ASU approval and release timings.
Ensure inventory integrity and management across the assigned elements of the Seqirus Supply Chain network (including site manufacturing and assigned outsourced manufacturing operations) to maximize margin opportunities in line with the Seqirus risk framework and to minimize write-offs.
Ensure all materials and components are ordered and available on time to safeguard uninterrupted supply.
Accountable for the value of inventory held and the management processes which ensure full cGMP and financial compliance.
As site interface with Global Procurement, ensures site requirements for materials, goods, and services, and product initiatives are prioritized, providing feedback and input to supplier relationships.
Lead the data management process for SAP at a site level, ensuring that data maintenance and governance is applied in line with global standards.
Ensure the Site Supply Chain and all other site functions provide current and accurate data for all ERP system updates as required by agreed global and site data management processes.
Partner with peers to lead the development and implementation of Supply Chain business processes and operational systems focused on increasing operational effectiveness and cost efficiency at the site and across the supply chain function.
Work across all sites to achieve standardization and optimization and alignment with other Supply Chain leaders to ensure high levels of quality and compliance across the Supply Chain and related IT systems as measured by Quality and financial audits.
Own the control systems for inventory at the site.
Through the Warehouse Manager, lead and motivate the Warehouse team to achieve the plans, schedule targets and internal and external customer requirements.
Assure inventory accuracy.
Control and manage all warehouse activities in accordance with cGMP, housekeeping and Health and Safety requirements.
Maintain warehouse KPI and team sizes to optimize performance, safety and cost.
Partner with Global Logistics to ensure the timely supply of product to meet export and domestic market requirements.
Ensure the organization can supply in the event of a pandemic in alignment with Advanced Purchase Agreements (APAs); this includes maintaining stock of materials, financial accountability and ensuring all functions at the site are ready in the event of a pandemic.
Partner with Global Planning to deliver robust plans as part of the Pandemic S&OP process.
Partner with Procurement on vendor agreements, to have a material strategy to minimize write offs of material stock.
A contributing member of the Core Program Team with responsibility to represent Global Supply Chain in the development strategy and execution plan for the full lifecycle of a product.
Review target product profiles and identify gaps in licensed supply capabilities.
Assess changes and impact to network strategy and locked supply plan of proposed initiatives.
Ensure SAP Master Data updated to ensure approved initiatives.
Publish quarterly outlook for assigned products to SCLT and OLT.