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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Question - Could you be the right addition to our team?

Location/Division Specific Information

We are the Clinical Trials Division (CTD): We Supply the Hope that Changes Lives - Global (remote)

CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time - a concept that we internally adopt as "There is a Patient Waiting." Our unique blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more. Our more than 4000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

A Day In The Life

  • Design, Implement, Interpret and Review inventory management plan to forecast supply plan of study drugs to global and sophisticated clinical trials, using sound supply chain techniques.
  • Provide input into User Requirement Specifications of Interactive Response Technology (IRT) medication management module and complete User Acceptance Testing if required.
  • Review IRT strategy to ensure it supports the strategic supply plans and that IRT settings are adjusted to optimize the supply and demand.
  • Ensures plans are robust and optimizes global and regional supply strategies to ensure continuity of subject supply in the most effective and efficient manner.
  • Develop and provide clients with reports on actual project spend versus budget.
  • Establishes connections between demand planning team and S&OP ensuring the latest forecast information is aggregated and integrated into the divisional S&OP process.
  • Partners with the Enterprise Project Manager, along with global and site project management teams and/or directly with the customer to advise and proactively share key client data vital to facilitate an effective supply chain planning cycle.
  • Ensure temperature excursion process is performed as required.
  • Establish and maintain financial forecasts and monthly billing processes for assigned client projects.
  • Assist in training and on boarding of new employees (buddy concept)
  • Stay on top of relevant cGMPs, GCPs, and other regulatory requirements and ensure study management activities are aligned.
  • Demonstrate and promote company vision.
  • Conduct activities in a safe and efficient manner.

As Demonstrated By

Project Management

  • Structures demand plans in line with client strategy —starting from an identified need, sets objectives and specific goals.
  • Speaks and writes in a clear, concise, and organized way. Listens carefully to others to ensure understanding and effective communication.

Technical Knowledge

  • Independently digests data that is applicable to project results and collaborators.
  • Handles the demand planning part of projects efficiently in different systems and maintains their own as well as the team’s accountability for using Thermo Fisher tools to help the team be successful.
  • Demonstrates comfort with technology and uses innovations to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes, procedures, and outputs.
  • Knowledge of general inventory and billing principles, good documentation practices, and report generation.

Project Management Leadership

  • Works with others to quickly resolve or raise solutions to problems. Develops a sense of urgency among cross-functional teams to influence project timelines.
  • Communicates at the proper time, understands boundaries, respects differences, and confronts tension. Ensures that all communications are clear, focused, and based on a solid understanding of needs, using the most appropriate medium.

Keys To Success

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business/operations management preferred.
  • High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience

  • 4 to 5 years of supply chain and/or planning experience managing global supply chain design and logistics management, preferably as they relate to clinical program design and execution.
  • Understanding of clinical supply requirements, phases of clinical development, and the factors that influence study designs preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Demands a keen awareness of business dynamics, involving the capacity to grasp the manufacturing process and its impact on the overall business.
  • Requires enhanced PC knowledge and skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) products.
  • Requires interpersonal skills and the ability to lead and work in teams including client services, technical, planning, and financial expertise.
  • Requires excellent analytical and organizational skills.
  • APICS certification or equivalent preferred.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origitesn, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.goSeniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionManagement and Manufacturing
  • IndustriesBiotechnology

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