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 works closely with regional commercial supply chain leads to understand demand-planning trends, market dynamics, and promotional activity, and incorporates those 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 develops and maintains plans spanning API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods, aligning demand, manufacturing capacity, lead times, and minimum remaining shelf-life requirements. It also coordinates with manufacturing sites and cross-functional teams, optimizes inventory and allocation, monitors planning performance, and communicates supply status, risks, and escalations. The position includes people-leader responsibilities focused on inclusion, talent development, and empowering teams. Travel may be up to 10%.
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.
- Up to 10% travel, including engagement with regional teams, manufacturing sites, and commercial partners.
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.
- Proactive problem-solving mindset and customer-focused approach.
Responsibilities
- Integrate demand signals from regional planning teams into end-to-end supply plans for API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods.
- Develop, maintain, and execute commercial supply plans that account for demand insights, manufacturing capacity, lead times, and minimum remaining shelf-life requirements at batch release and market delivery.
- Review API part setups, effective dates, and other master data; monitor new-product supply setup updates; and manage API retest and expiry reviews.
- Review and manage MoH across API, manage system FPOs including allocation of ICNs, and review demand and Drug Product supply-plan outliers.
- Review the Drug Product five-year supply plan and API four-year supply plan, and review API inventory health.
- Create the first draft SRM API Change Analysis slide and provide the API Change Analysis slide; provide four-year budget volumes during LE.
- Review shipping quantities and requirements and lot-level restrictions for Drug Product firm orders.
- Use SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response to build, monitor, and scenario-test supply plans, managing demand changes, supply constraints, expiry risk, and shelf-life-driven trade-offs.
- Coordinate with internal and external manufacturing sites on production schedules and batch strategies to align 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 when supply is constrained.
- 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 product availability.
- Support change-management initiatives affecting 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
