Sr. Director, Global Logistics and Distribution

Vaxcyte • San Carlos, CA

92d • $260,000 - $303,000

About The Position

Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases, which have serious and costly health consequences when left unchecked. Working to eradicate or treat bacterial infections such as invasive pneumococcal disease, Group A Strep, and Shigella is just the beginning. Our path to success is clear and well-defined, and Vaxcyte is set up to go the distance. The Senior Director, Global Logistics has overall responsibility for shipping and storage of all Vaxcyte CMC materials including finished goods, bulk product and samples. This position will report to the Executive Director, Global Supply Chain.

Requirements

• BS in a science-related discipline is a definite plus
• 10+ years’ experience working in the Life Sciences industry
• 10+ years’ experience in International cGMP cold chain shipping
• Fluent with all global shipping-related statutory and regulatory requirements
• Understand the requirements, technologies, and processes of cold-chain supply management
• Experience with pharma logistic service providers with knowledge of qualified active and passive containers
• Experience with arranging international and domestic transportation
• Experience authoring and using GxP documents such as SOP’s and work instructions
• Relentless focus and passion around process improvements (efficiency and automation)
• Excellent communication, customer service, and relationship skills
• Vaccine distribution experience highly valued

Responsibilities

• Ensure all shipping and storage operations are compliant, do not impact product quality, timely and cost effective
• Select and Manage carriers, freight forwarders, 3rd party storage site, import / export brokers and other logistics service providers
• Ensure robust shipping agreements are in place with all CMOs and suppliers of criterial raw materials
• Ensure that packouts are robustly designed with the appropriate containers and associated components to maintain material at target temperature and facilitate efficient receipt
• Oversight of all logistics related policies, guidelines and standard operating procedures
• Development and maintenance of IT systems to track shipping requests, actual shipments and temperature data
• Ensure that temperature excursions and other logistics related deviations occur at low frequency and are resolved in a compliant and timely manner with minimal material losses
• Ensure the successful design & execution of a Shipping Validation Program
• Ensure Import / Export Trade Compliance in all relevant markets
• Ensure tariff obligations are managed in a compliant and cost effective way
• Develop and implement finished good distribution strategies for all global markets that Vaxcyte launches in
• Select and manage a US 3PL site that will store Vaxcyte Finished Goods, process customer orders, execute shipments and collect payments
• Interface with Commercial, Quality, Finance, IT, Process Development, Regulatory, MSAT, Supply Planning, Clinical Supply, Supplier Management and other Functions
• Manage a team of logistics professionals

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive benefits
• Equity component

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees