Director - Clinical Study Supply Biopharma

At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines and strive to continuously meet the unmet needs of patients worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you're our kind of person!

Join us as a Director of Clinical Study Supply - Biopharma, where you will lead an R&D therapy area clinical study supply chain management team with a significant portfolio of internally and externally sponsored clinical trials.

You will be fully accountable for the design, planning, and execution of primary and secondary kit supply to all clinical studies in your therapy area, ensuring no delays to new study start-up and no disruption to supply to patients throughout the life of a study. This global line leadership role within Clinical Manufacturing & Supply is your chance to drive improvements to clinical supply chain planning through the development and management of Team Leaders and their direct reports.

Key accountabilities:

Line Management of Globally based (Snr) Clinical Supply Programme Leads

* Responsible for line management of the respective Clinical supply programme team members.
* Responsible for the recruitment, training, and professional development of the team.
* Translating strategy and objectives into a meaningful direction for the group that every individual connects with and fosters a great place to work climate.
* Provide leadership, coaching, mentorship, and direction to team members and drive a strong lean culture that promotes standardization, simplification, and continual improvement.
* Input into financial budgeting processes and delivery of group spend to budget.

Global Leadership and Orchestration of supply for Clinical Programmes

* Ensuring effective and agile end to end supply chains meet agreed portfolio, project, clinical milestones and ensures alignment of objectives through the line.
* Accountable for the clinical supply input and supply chain design ahead of Senior Governance (ESPC) and ensures CM&S detail is provided to SVP via CM&S Leadership.
* Accountable for delivery of clinical supply governance commitments.
* Portfolio and capacity management for group fully aligned with budgeting processes.
* Accountable for an efficient collaboration process with all relevant internal and external partners within the scope of clinical supply design and programme planning.
* Accountable for driving end to end planning and synchronisation capability uplift.

Accountable for the Supply Chain Teams & Demand Forums

* Ensuring effective supply chain teams work in partnership with pharmaceutical project teams and have responsibility to set up and manage an effective and efficient supply chain to ensure on-time delivery of investigational product to all clinical studies within a project.
* Responsible for prioritization within the sub-therapy area to meet clinical requirements.
* Delivery against functional key performance indicators and metrics and monitoring of delivery towards clinical targets, escalation and communication of risk, issues, and recovery plans



Orchestrates the synchronization for the clinical supply chain in and across the different supply chain nodes via the S&OP process

* Accountable and or Chair for the Sr S&OP/IBP process (when developed) across Clinical and Finance
* Accountable for clinical project spend for the sub-TA area (ca.$50m) and input into the financial processes (RBU; MTP; LTP; Phased Budget)
* Accountable for actual clinical supply chain spend performance and tracking vs. budget.

Strategy Development

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Collating the future business requirements for their sub-therapy area developing clinical supply strategies that feed as a demand into the appropriate network strategies and the strategic workforce plan to develop clinical supply capabilities.

Business Process Management

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Accountable for working with other Heads of Clinical Supply Chain Programmes and BPOs (Business Process Owner) to implement programme process standardization and engaging with the BPOs to ensure processes are more efficient or adapted to new business needs.

Essential for the role:

- Degree or equivalent experience or equivalent professional qualification
- Extensive supply chain experience covering planning, logistics, and manufacturing
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Evidence of leading in a matrix environment with exceptional stakeholder management


Desirable for the role:

- Clinical Supply experience
- Leadership of a team in a global and matrix environment

Why AstraZeneca?

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

So, what's next? Take the next step in your career and join our team! We welcome your application no later than 1st December 2023.

Competitive salary and benefits package on offer.