Senior Associate, Supply Chain

Senior Associate, Supply Chain

At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work—but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

The Senior Associate, Supply Chain will manage global inventory and logistics to ensure uninterrupted supply of critical components for development, technology transfer, and drug product manufacturing. This role involves processing inventory reports from CMOs, coordinating domestic and international shipments, managing purchase orders, reviewing/approving invoices, and maintaining budgets for supply chain items. The Senior Associate, Supply Chain will analyze forecasts and inventories to identify risks, propose mitigation strategies, and develop timelines for issue resolution.

Additional duties include overseeing supplier operations, managing complaints and quality investigations, tracking recalls, and evaluating alternative suppliers while ensuring compliance with SOPs. The role also supports development projects with suppliers, facilitates cross-functional supply chain discussions, supports Supplier Quality Management and CMC teams, and drives continuous improvement across global supply chain processes.

This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum of three days per week on-site at the Philadelphia office.

Responsibilities:

• Process inventory reports from CMOs globally and organize domestic and international shipments of critical components to each manufacturing site to ensure a sufficient supply for development, technology transfer, and Drug Product manufacturing
• Organize shipments for export as needed
• Organize shipments of dangerous goods as needed
• Maintain inventory tracking tools that account for materials production forecasts, usage, supplier lead-times, product expiries and stock levels
• Create and communicate inventory reports to senior management in a timely manner
• Create purchase orders; approve and track supply chain invoices
• Analyze forecasts and inventory levels to identify potential risks
• Propose solutions to mitigate issues and interruptions to the supply chain supporting manufacturing
• Develop timelines and/or project plans for issue resolution
• Manage relevant operations at critical component suppliers
• Review and/or approve the documentation for critical components at approved suppliers
• Manage investigations regarding component complaints with suppliers as necessary
• Write and/or review component investigations and risk assessments as necessary
• Communicate and track recalls/retrieval of components as necessary
• Identify and/or evaluate alternative suppliers of reagents and components as necessary and manage the associated change control process
• Lead development projects with suppliers of reagents and components as necessary
• Lead supply chain cross-functional team discussions
• Support Supplier Quality Management (SQM) as the CMC Supply Chain representative
• Support CMC cross-functional teams
• Monitor the budget for critical component supply chain
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in science or supply chain related field
• Must have at least 2 years working experience in supply chain in the pharmaceutical industry, and/or healthcare supply chain in a hospital/VA institution setting, and/or retail pharmacy environment
• Knowledge of supplier and inventory management
• Impeccable organizational skills and strong attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a highly focused manner but also within a team
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to foster relationships and collaborate with internal and external parties
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, exercise sound…