VP Supply Chain

VP Supply Chain

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.
• Ensure logistics performance achieves 100% on-time-in-full (OTIF) delivery.
• 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 systems and KPIs to drive on-time-in-full performance, waste reduction, and forecast accuracy.
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing to synchronize production scheduling with warehousing and delivery commitments.
• Ensure supply chain, warehousing, and distribution operations meet cGMP, FDA, NRC, and applicable state and international regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory Affairs on supplier qualification, audits, and CAPA.
• Maintain rigorous chain-of-custody and radiation safety standards across all storage and transport activities.
• Own the supply chain, warehousing, and distribution budget; execute supply chain strategy to deliver best-in-class savings without compromising quality or compliance.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with suppliers, carriers, warehouse operators, and 3PL partners.
• Must maintain operational compliance with US and international regulatory agencies and guidelines (i.e. FDA, DEA, EU, HC, TGA, PIC/S, ISO, USP, NRC, cGMP, etc.).

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, life sciences, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 18+ years or more of relevant supply chain experience, with 10 or more years in senior leadership role.
• Direct experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, nuclear medicine, or radiopharmaceutical industries.
• Demonstrated expertise managing warehousing, distribution, and time-sensitive, regulated, or cold-chain/hazardous-material logistics.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP, FDA, NRC, DOT, and IATA regulations.
• Experience with short-half-life or decay-sensitive product distribution preferred.
• Familiarity with isotope production (reactor-based and cyclotron) supply ecosystems preferred.
• Track record of building resilient, diversified supply networks and…