VP Supply Chain
Listed on 2026-06-26
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Supply Chain/Logistics
Supply Chain / Intl. Trade, Logistics Coordination
Curium is the world’s largest nuclear medicine company with more than a century of industry experience. We develop, manufacture and distribute world-class radiopharmaceutical products to help patients around the globe. Our proven heritage combined with a pioneering approach are the hallmarks to deliver innovation, excellence and unparalleled service.
With manufacturing facilities across Europe and the United States, Curium delivers SPECT, PET and therapeutic radiopharmaceutical solutions for life‑threatening diseases to over 14 million patients annually. The name ‘Curium’ honors the legacy of pioneering radioactive researchers Marie and Pierre Curie, after whom the radioactive element curium was named and emphasizes our focus on nuclear medicine. The tagline ‘Life Forward’ represents our commitment to securing a brighter future for all those we serve:
An enhanced quality of care for our patients. A trusted partner to our customers. A supportive employer to our valued team.
The Vice President of Supply Chain is responsible for designing, leading, and optimizing the end‑to‑end supply chain for a radiopharmaceutical company operating under stringent regulatory, time, and safety constraints. This role oversees the procurement, manufacturing logistics, warehousing, and distribution of products with short half‑lives, ensuring on‑time delivery of life‑saving diagnostic and therapeutic agents to patients and clinical sites. The successful candidate will balance the unique demands of radioactive material handling, isotope supply security, and just‑in‑time delivery with cost control, quality, and full regulatory compliance.
Essential Functions- Develop and execute a comprehensive supply chain strategy aligned with commercial, clinical, and manufacturing objectives.
- Build, mentor, and lead a cross‑functional team spanning procurement, planning, warehousing, logistics, and distribution.
- Serve as a member of the senior operations leadership team, contributing to enterprise‑wide decision‑making.
- Work cross‑functionally and intracompany to secure isotope supply and de‑risk single‑source dependencies and global supply disruptions.
- Manage relationships with reactor/cyclotron suppliers, generators, and precursor manufacturers.
- Establish contingency and business continuity plans for isotope shortages.
- Oversee warehousing operations for radioactive materials, precursors, components, and finished products, ensuring proper segregation, shielding, and storage controls.
- Establish and maintain licensed radioactive material storage areas in compliance with NRC and state radiation safety requirements.
- Implement inventory accuracy, cycle counting, lot/serial traceability, and decay‑based stock rotation appropriate to short‑half‑life products.
- Manage temperature‑controlled and hazardous‑material storage, including monitoring, alarming, and qualification of storage environments.
- Optimize warehouse layout, capacity, and workflows to support rapid release and dispatch of time‑critical product.
- Oversee time‑critical, temperature‑and radiation‑controlled distribution networks to deliver short‑half‑life products within tight delivery windows.
- Design and manage the distribution strategy, including 3PL partners, specialized couriers, and last‑mile delivery for radioactive materials.
- Ensure compliance with DOT, IATA, NRC, DEA, and international transport regulations for radioactive and controlled‑substance shipments.
- Oversee trade compliance for import/export activities, including customs, classification, licensing, and adherence to applicable global trade regulations.
- Maintain DEA registration, recordkeeping, and chain‑of‑custody requirements for the handling and distribution of controlled substances.
- Maintain rigorous chain‑of‑custody, packaging, labeling, and radiation safety standards throughout transport.
- Drive distribution performance through routing optimization, carrier management, and real‑time shipment tracking.
- Lead demand planning, S&OP, and inventory management tailored to decay‑sensitive products.
- Design, execute, maintain, and audit master data, bills of materials (BOMs), routings, and work order management.
- Implement…
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