Job Title: Clinical Supply Planning Manager
Department: Supply Chain
Location: Palo Alto, CA / Miami, FL / Princeton, NJ
CLINICAL SUPPLY PLANNING MANAGER
Overview of Role:
The Clinical Supply Planning Manager provides planning, analytics, coordination, and operational support to the Associate Director, Clinical Supply and Clinical Supply Managers across Summit's portfolio of internally and externally sponsored global clinical trials. The role consolidates demand, maintains inventory and supply visibility, prepares scenarios and performance insights, coordinates planning activities, and supports approved supply, allocation, release, and logistics plans. The position works cross-functionally with internal teams, depots, manufacturers, and other external partners to maintain accurate planning information, identify and escalate risks, and support timely execution. Clinical Supply Managers retain accountability for study-level strategy, decisions, and execution.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Consolidate study and portfolio demand forecasts to support Summit's integrated clinical supply planning process.
- Prepare planning inputs, dashboards, meeting materials, and decision-support analyses for the CMC/Supply Chain team.
- Run and review vendor reports; maintain accurate depot-, product-, and batch-level inventory visibility across Summit's global supply network.
- Maintain approved demand forecasts, inventory plans, allocation assumptions, supply scenarios, and related planning data in designated systems and trackers as the single source of truth.
- Develop demand, inventory, expiry, resupply, and allocation scenarios and provide recommendations
- Support inventory allocation planning and execute approved allocation decisions across depots, considering study priorities, shipment timing, regulatory approvals, shelf life, and other identified constraints.
- Coordinate and facilitate monthly clinical supply planning reviews, including data preparation, risk summaries, decisions, action tracking, and follow-up.
- Produce and maintain KPIs, trend analyses, risk assessments, and recommendations to support management decisions and continuous improvement.
- Identify, assess, document, and escalate inventory constraints, expiry risks, release delays, forecast changes, and potential supply interruptions; support mitigation planning with the responsible Clinical Supply Manager.
- Coordinate monthly supply-plan updates with Clinical Supply Managers, depot teams, manufacturers, and other external partners, and implement updates resulting from approved decisions.
- Coordinate cross-functionally to gather and track QA/QP release, GMP, shipment, importation, and other required documentation to support operational readiness.
- Maintain action, decision, risk, assumption, and dependency logs and follow assigned items through closure.
- Provide analysis and operational support for the development and implementation of approved clinical supply strategies, timelines, budgets, and process improvements.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and promptly escalate issues requiring management attention or decisions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in clinical supply planning, pharmaceutical or biotechnology supply chain, or a related operations environment preferred.
- Working knowledge of clinical supply concepts, including demand forecasting, inventory management, allocation, shelf life, packaging and labeling, release readiness, distribution, and depot operations.
- Experience supporting multiple studies or products in a global, cross-functional, and outsourced operating model preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into clear risks, scenarios, and recommendations.
- Strong proficiency in Excel and experience with demand-planning, forecasting, inventory, or reporting tools strongly preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare concise analyses and coordinate effectively with internal teams and external partners.
- Strong organization, attention to detail, time management, and follow-through across multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Proactive and able to work independently within defined responsibilities, while escalating decisions, risks, and exceptions appropriately.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work cross-functionally across geographies and time zones in a fast-paced biotechnology environment.