Head of Supply Chain Planning & Logistics

We are a leading cell therapy contract development and manufacturing organization creating cutting-edge therapies that change people’s lives. Collaborative, dedicated, and talented people are the backbone of our culture. We work both autonomously and in driven teams to make life-changing products utilizing ground-breaking science.

Here at RoslinCT, our team contributes to the development of revolutionary treatments. We live every day by our core values:
Partner Focus, One Team, Personal Growth, Integrity, Innovation, and Trust and Respect. We put our employees at the forefront by providing a flexible and empowering work environment, an attractive benefits package, and an emphasis on work-life balance. Our people are the key to our success. At RoslinCT we focus on developing our corporate culture, people’s development, growth, and the ability to impact patients.

The Head of Supply Chain Planning & Logistics provides direct leadership for all sourcing and supply chain related activities including material and production planning and scheduling, warehousing/inventory control as well as operations and logistics. This role is an integral member of the Site Leadership Team and leads the sales and operations planning processes ensuring uninterrupted supply of materials and finished product for RoslinCT’s clients.

• Responsible for leading the Supply Chain and Operations Organization. Manage day-to-day operations to ensure departmental commitments and deliverables are achieved. This involves resource oversight, production scheduling and management, operations, logistics, planning, delegation, prioritization, collaboration, etc.
• Lead development of robust, cost-effective manufacturing and supply chain strategies to enable uninterrupted supply of necessary materials.
• Lead strategic planning, scheduling and the sales and operations planning processes.
• Responsible for the processes to manage, schedule, and control incoming autologous patient materials and the shipment of outbound drug product and ancillary materials.
• Oversee the total inventory management process including but not limited to: cycle counts, full physical inventory counts, posting counts, confirming tolerance ranges, recording variances, generating Zero Reports, performing inventory investigations when needed or required.
• Maintain warehouse and logistics (including general shipping, receiving, and freight management) execute site inventory strategy of locally managed materials to ensure compliance with cGMP requirements, standard operating procedures, guidelines, policies as well all site safety requirements.
• Collaborate daily with Program Management, Faculties, Manufacturing, QA and QC to ensure alignment on production schedule.
• Ensure adequate training (skills-based, cGMP and Safety) of staff within department, to support commercial production and development needs.
• Participates in Regulatory Audits and internal and client project meetings.

• Measure, trend and report supply related KPI’s as a basis to drive continuous improvement
• This role also serves as the business process owner for the enterprise resource planning system (ERP).

• Ability to manage and administer people processes including selection, hiring, promotion, and compensation and provide training of personnel on company and department policies systems and processes.
• Ability to partner with the peers to build a culture based on company values
• A highly organized work style that ensures timely execution of tasks.
• A mindset that ensures accurate results.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Effective problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.