Head of Site Supply Chain

Job Summary:

As the functional lead for the Supply Chain at the manufacturing site you are accountable for definition and execution of all activities required to ensure timely service to our customers. Reporting to the Seqirus Head of Supply Chain, you will be responsible for planning of site operations, inventory management, warehouse management, placing orders for direct materials, pandemic readiness and detailed and rigorous preparation for campaigns. You will be an important member of the Site Leadership Team, contributing to site performance, culture, safety and quality. As an essential member of the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team the role holder contributes to overall Supply Chain strategy and aligns site operations through S&OP and the individual product strategies. The role partners across global and local team members to align with global processes and standards, ensuring delivery to customers expectations. The role includes ownership for assigned products, representing operations at cross-functional forums, ensuring agreement between planned future commercial and development activities and Supply Chain operational strategies.

Principal Accountabilities:

Planning

• Working with Global Planners and Supply Chain Operations teams you will lead the site delivery of seasonal and pandemic campaigns. You will develop and direct the site Planning function ensuring robustness in the plan and that all manufacturing and procurement plans meet customer contract requirements whilst supporting Seqirus business goals.

• Responsible for all site capacity planning models and ensuring that appropriate and accurate information is incorporated into global strategic plans; you will analyse, develop, and implement long-term planning strategies with the network strategy, collaborating with teams inside and outside the organization.

• Drive and facilitate the Site Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, generating data and with key responsibility for supporting S&OP meetings and processes. Work with Global Planning & Commercial to understand and interpret forecasts and global operational plans and defines, manages site processes to deliver required outcomes, including optimum inventory levels, to support product manufacture and pandemic preparedness.

• Drive continuous improvement of Supply Chain planning processes and manages deployment of new processes and applications.

• Ensure decisions are escalated with accurate financial analysis to support decision-making. This includes manufacture of non-commercial materials (e.g., clinical trials and technology transfers).

Campaign Readiness and Execution

• Lead the Annual Strain Update (ASU) and approval processes for all markets and products for the site-owned influenza products, ensuring all ASU activities are performed following a Playbook approach across all departments.
• You will direct the execution of the campaign, including batch release, to ensure supply according to a lock supply plan. Ensure all site teams are involved and governed to ensure campaign success.
• As part of the focus on continuous improvement, you will drive the pre- and post campaign review processes to challenge assumptions, work with other Seqirus locations to share learnings and drive faster ASU approval and release timings.

Inventory and Release Management

• Ensure inventory integrity and management across the assigned elements of the Seqirus Supply Chain network (including site manufacturing and assigned outsourced manufacturing operations) to maximize margin opportunities in line with the Seqirus risk framework and to minimize write-offs. This role ensures all materials and components are ordered and available on time to safeguard uninterrupted supply.
• Accountable for the value of inventory held and the management processes which ensure full cGMP and financial compliance.
• As site interface with Global Procurement, ensures site requirements for materials, goods, and services, and product initiatives are prioritized, providing feedback and input to supplier relationships.

Data Integrity and Process Optimization

• Lead the data management process for SAP at a site level, ensuring that data maintenance and governance is applied in line with global standards.

• Ensuring the Site Supply Chain and all other site functions provide current and accurate data for all ERP system updates as required by agreed global and site data management processes.

• Partner with peers to lead the development and implementation of Supply Chain business processes and operational systems focused on increasing operational effectiveness and cost efficiency at the site and across the supply chain function.

• Work across all sites to achieve standardization and optimization and alignment with other Supply Chain leaders to ensure high levels of quality and compliance across the Supply Chain and related IT systems as measured by Quality and financial audits. Own the control systems for inventory at the site.

Warehouse

• Through the Warehouse Manager, lead and motivate the Warehouse team to achieve the plans, schedule targets and internal and external customer requirements. Assure inventory accuracy. Control and manage all warehouse activities in accordance with cGMP, housekeeping and Health and Safety requirements.

• Maintain warehouse KPI and team sizes to optimize performance, safety and cost.

• Partner with Global Logistics to ensure the timely supply of product to meet export and domestic market requirements.

Pandemic Readiness

• Ensure the organization can supply in the event of a pandemic in alignment with Advanced Purchase Agreements (APAs); this includes maintaining stock of materials, financial accountability and ensuring all functions at the site are ready in the event of a pandemic.

• Partner with Global Planning to deliver robust plans as part of the Pandemic S&OP process.

• Partner with Procurement on vendor agreements, to have a material strategy to minimize write offs of material stock.

Product Ownership

• A contributing member of the Core Program Team with responsibility is to represent Global Supply Chain in the development strategy and execution plan for the full lifecycle of a product. The accountabilities include:

• Review target product profiles and identify gaps in licensed supply capabilities

• Assess changes and impact to network strategy and locked supply plan of proposed initiatives

• Ensure SAP Master Data updated to ensure approved initiatives

• Publish quarterly outlook for assigned products to SCLT and OLT

Scope/Accountability:

This position is responsible for the site-based Supply Chain team in North America which consists of ~30 employees and contractors. This position is responsible for the development of the tactical and strategic plans for the site Supply Chain function, with primary objectives of creating value for Seqirus, while achieving our financial business targets that include Revenue and Cost. The role is a member of the Supply Chain Leadership Team and reports directly to the Seqirus Head of Supply Chain. This position works across multiple functions to ensure alignment with the site and broader organization and resources to the strategic plans for which they are responsible.

Impact/Influence/Liaison:

The person in this position must liaise with various global and local functions to effectively carry out the duties of the role.  In this role, the person in the position must be able to operate independently to align all functions to the strategic plans and objectives of the Supply Chain function and ensure the appropriate resources are allocated to the respective initiatives. The person in the role must define and implement policies and procedures that are used to carry-out the duties of the function they oversee.

Key Relationships:

Internally, the person in this position must work with various global and local functions, including finance, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, logistics and procurement.

Externally, the person in this position at time may interact with key customers with the goal of supporting strategies that support Commercial needs.

This individual with also interact at an executive level supporting strategy development across the Supply Chain function and operations generally.

Decision Making:

The issues/opportunities faced by the person in the role will be both, routine and non-routine in nature.  The decisions taken by this role will impact hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, tens of millions of dollars in product costs, and millions of dollars of operational cost.  The person in this position must be able to quickly assess a situation, develop a plan of action and recommendation, align key stakeholders, and then oversee and guide the implementation of strategies.

Innovation:

Innovative thinking is critical as the person in this role will routinely be challenged to address unique business and competitive challenges and the changing needs of our business in a highly competitive marketplace.  The person in this role must be innovative in both evolutionary ways to ensure steady progress toward our goals and in revolutionary ways to identify novel solutions to complex supply chain needs that will help differentiate Seqirus from the competition.  They must demonstrate a natural curiosity, strong analytical and problem solving skills, and the ability to inspire others to action.

Travel Requirements:

Minimal domestic and international

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies

Extensive understanding of Supply Chain operations from sourcing to product delivery

Preferrable understanding of a vaccine supply chain process, including Regulatory and Quality elements

Experience working in a matrix environment where cross-collaboration is necessary

Interdisciplanry experience across manufacturing, planning, logistics and purchasing

ERP system knowledge with preference for SAP

Strong analytical skills, with ability to address complexity and problem-solving

Minimum Education Requirements:

Bachelors Degree in business, or technical field relevant to our industry

Masters Degree preferred, but not required

Minimum Experience Requirements:

10 years relevant experience including 4+ years of leadership experience