Senior Associate - Supply Chain

Role Summary

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 processes inventory reports from CMOs, coordinates domestic and international shipments, manages purchase orders, reviews invoices, and maintains budgets for supply chain items. It analyzes forecasts and inventories to identify risks, proposes mitigation strategies, and develops timelines for issue resolution. The role also supports supplier operations, manages complaints and quality investigations, tracks recalls, and evaluates alternative suppliers while ensuring SOP compliance; it drives cross-functional supply chain discussions and continuous improvement. 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

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in science or supply chain related field
• Required: 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
• Required: Knowledge of supplier and inventory management
• Required: Impeccable organizational skills and strong attention to detail
• Required: Ability to work independently in a highly focused manner but also within a team
• Required: Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to foster relationships and collaborate with internal and external parties
• Required: Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Required: Ability to manage multiple priorities, exercise sound judgment, be well organized, take initiative, be flexible, work well under pressure, and produce accurate and timely work
• Required: Strong work ethic with perseverance to achieve results
• Required: Proficiency in Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel, Project, Access)
• Required: Authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1
• Preferred: Technical knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing