Associate Director, Supply Chain

Location(s): Munich, Germany 

Level of position: Associate Director

Position type: Office-based

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

What will you do?

• Responsible for creating supply plans to support Finished Goods inventory requirements, across all EU markets, including UK, CH and CEE.
• Lead the regional Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) process within Europe (including UK, CH and CEE), actively contribute to and participate in the global S&OP, and provide support for the International executive level S&OP.
• Point of contact for commercial packagers, leading day-to-day supply chain communication to ensure that all packaging operations, release, and shipping activities are completed on time.
• Proactively identify and communicate potential supply issues, while developing and implementing mitigation strategies
• Review and approve documentation associated with packaging operations to ensure that all packaging components and processes used for Blueprint’s products maintain product quality throughout the supply chain.
• Liaise with Regulatory Affairs and Quality to evaluate modifications to packaging components throughout the commercial product lifecycle.
• Review and approve labeling artwork to ensure label modifications and their impact are fully assessed, understood, and implemented without supply disruptions and with minimal obsolescence
• In coordination with Blueprint’s upstream and downstream trading partners, ensure that international markets serialization compliance requirements for Blueprint’s commercial products are always fully met.
• Maintain and ensure compliance with all SOPs. Identify gaps and make appropriate mitigation recommendations to ensure global compliance. Develop new functional SOPs, as necessary, and provide training to staff.
• Provide active support to the Order to Cash and distribution operations, collaborating with Finance, Commercial and 3PL team (Customer Service and Operations), to ensure on time delivery of product to hospitals and pharmacies.
• Work with other line functions and external partners to manage complex projects, negotiate and communicate supply timelines.
• Collaborate with the Director, Supply Chain International to establish and manage budget for International Supply Chain. 

 What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field
• 10+ years’ supply chain experience in pharmaceutical or other regulated and GxP environment(s).
• 5+ years’ experience in packaging development and serialization. • Strong knowledge of inventory management and distribution operations. 

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Strong knowledge of inventory management and distribution operations.
• Experience managing CMO’s, CPO’s and/or 3PL’s
• Must have excellent analytical abilities and project management skills
• Strong communication, collaboration, and team-building skills; ability to connect with all levels of the organization. Ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational, planning, interpersonal skills; strong business acumen and decision making skills required to work with third-party manufacturers/packagers as well as internal colleagues
• Knowledge of integrated manufacturing support systems (i.e. ERP, Specification, MRP
• APICS certification preferred
• Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills to rapidly establish credibility and trust among a broad range of individuals within and outside the company.
• Shows the ability to achieve results in a complex, multi-functional and multi/geographical environment
• Highly collaborative and responsive team player
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to take a proactive approach to problem-solving and risk management
• Broad cultural orientation, ideally with some experience of working in an international context.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative mindset.
• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and paradoxes.
• Fluent in English; other languages advantageous.
• Commitment to Blueprint Medicines’ Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint? 

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Blueprint Medicines, a Sanofi company, is a global biopharmaceutical company that seeks to improve and extend patients' lives by solving important medical problems, with a focus on allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a track record of success,leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases and solid tumors. For more information, visit www.BlueprintMedicines.com and follow us on X (formerly Twitter; @BlueprintMeds) and LinkedIn.

*Blueflex is our operating model which optimizes culture, productivity, & flexibility by maximizing the critical strengths of in-person work with the benefits of added flexibility.  Blueflex allows for mix of in-office and remote work, enables flexibility to meet individual and business needs and makes effective use of our facilities and resources.  It is a culture enhancer.

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