Senior Manager, End-to-End Commercial Supply Planner
About The Position
The Senior Manager, End-to-End Commercial Supply Planner develops and executes supply plans for commercial small molecule and biologics products. The role partners with regional commercial supply chain leads to understand demand planning trends, market dynamics, and promotional activities, and incorporate these inputs into global supply plans. Reporting to the End-to-End Commercial Supply Chain Product Lead, the position uses SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response to support responsive planning and product availability across markets. The role manages commercial supply planning across API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods, incorporating demand, manufacturing capacity, lead times, and minimum remaining shelf-life requirements. It works with internal and external manufacturing sites and cross-functional partners to align production, inventory, allocation, and supply decisions with commercial priorities, service commitments, and risk considerations. The position also monitors planning performance and provides updates and escalations to leadership and stakeholders. It includes people-leader responsibilities focused on inclusion, talent development, and empowering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and eight years of experience, or a master's degree and six years of experience, or a PhD/PharmD and two years of experience.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret demand data and translate it into executable supply plans.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to foster collaboration with regional teams.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a global, matrixed environment.
- Proactive problem-solving mindset and customer-focused approach.
Nice To Haves
- Six or more years of experience in supply planning or related roles within pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical commercial supply chains.
- Experience partnering with regional commercial supply chain leads to incorporate demand-planning insights into supply plans.
- Strong experience with SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response or equivalent supply-planning tools.
- Knowledge of commercial supply-chain dynamics in small-molecule and/or biologics product sectors.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%, including engagement with regional teams, manufacturing sites, and commercial partners.
Responsibilities
- Integrate demand signals from regional planning teams into end-to-end supply plans across API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods.
- Develop, maintain, and execute detailed commercial supply plans that account for demand insights, manufacturing capacity, lead times, and minimum remaining shelf-life requirements at batch release and market delivery.
- Manage API detailed planning activities, including reviewing part setups and master data, monitoring new-product supply setup updates, reviewing API retest and expiry, managing API MoH, and managing system FPOs and ICN allocations.
- Review demand and Drug Product supply-plan outliers, Drug Product five-year and API four-year supply plans, API inventory health, shipping quantities and requirements, and lot-level restrictions for Drug Product firm orders.
- Prepare API change-analysis materials and provide four-year budget volumes during LE.
- Use SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response to build, monitor, and scenario-test supply plans, managing demand changes, constraints, expiry risk, shelf-life trade-offs, production timing, inventory positioning, and allocation decisions.
- Coordinate with internal and external manufacturing sites to align production schedules and batch strategies with demand, lead times, and shelf-life expectations while minimizing write-off risk and supporting service commitments.
- Optimize global inventory positioning with regional supply leads, balancing customer service and cost efficiency.
- Analyze demand trends to support allocation decisions during constrained supply situations.
- Partner with Commercial Operations, Quality, Manufacturing, and Finance to ensure supply plans support business objectives.
- Maintain partnerships with regional market leads to communicate supply status, risks, and escalations and support uninterrupted product availability.
- Support change management initiatives that affect supply plans due to commercial or regulatory changes.
- Track and report supply-plan adherence, inventory levels, and service performance; provide timely updates and escalations to leadership and stakeholders.
- Create an inclusive team environment, develop employees through coaching and feedback, and empower teams by aligning goals and removing barriers.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus eligibility.
- Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives; eligibility may vary by role.
- Paid time off.
- Company-sponsored medical insurance.
- Company-sponsored dental insurance.
- Company-sponsored vision insurance.
- Company-sponsored life insurance.
- Benefits package, subject to applicable plan terms and conditions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
