Associate Director, Drug Product Planning

Radius Health is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the future for patient populations in bone health and related therapeutic areas. Our team works relentlessly to improve the lives of our patients, their caregivers, our communities, our partners, and each other. We live by our corporate values, and every employee has an unwavering commitment to contributing to our positive culture. We are currently recruiting for Associate Director, Drug Product Planning; this is a remote position

Job Summary:

The Associate Director, Drug Product Planning is responsible for ensuring drug product inventory meets US Commercial and Global Market demand by creating, maintaining, and executing supply plans, coordinating production schedules with CMOs (Contract Manufacturing Organization), managing internal cross-functional relationships as well as global partnerships. Key duties include optimizing inventory (adherence to inventory targets), managing supply risks, supporting S&OP cycles, improving supply chain processes and maintaining customer service levels for Radius products (including TYMLOS, Binosto, and others). This role is accountable for the day-to-day activities of CMOs within the Radius Commercial Supply Chain network. This oversight will be managed through development of Key Performance Metrics and reporting. Additionally, this role serves as the Supply Chain main point of contact to Global Partners, responsible for assisting with all aspects of customer service, product supply, labeling, and launch planning. This role liaises with Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, IT, Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivables to ensure that our systems and processes are in place to support additional markets and geographic areas.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain 36-month production supply plan for assigned products, ensuring alignment with business strategy and goals
• Collaborate with Commercial team and global partners to review actual demand, future forecasts, and capacity constraints to highlight risks and opportunities in managing customer service and cost
• Identify and proactively address risk, develop ‘what-if’ scenarios and coordinate with CMOs to ensure continuity of supply. Including but not limited to but not limited to evaluating short and long-term capacity constraints and leading constraint resolution
• Monitor and manage inventory levels for finished products and raw materials, this includes inventory projections and supply coverage analysis for assigned products.
• Ensure accurate data entry and maintenance in Oracle Planning Serve as the Supply chain subject matter expert and resource for Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP)
• Collaborate with internal partners such as Quality Assurance to ensure all production schedules are met on-time, and completed in compliance with all cGMP guidelines and Radius SOP requirements
• Assures compliance with company policies, procedures and with local, state, federal and international government regulations related to Supply Chain (US Customs, FDA, USDA, DEA, cGMP, PDMA, DOT/IATA, EPA, USP, DNREC etc.) Pertaining to storage, distribution, import, export, and other movements of bulk and finished goods
• Drives contract manufacturer capability and capacity to enable on-time and predictable delivery of product
• Identifies and champions process improvement solutions to complex issues impacting CMOs
• Manages the operational activities (schedule, timelines, ) of the CMO ensuring program cost, quality, metrics, delivery and technology objectives are met as well as manage the partner performance to achieve them. Intercedes if goals and timelines are jeopardized, communicating to appropriate stakeholders as needed
• Serves as the main point of contact for all new partners
• Manges the forecasts and purchase orders from partners and ensures these needs are incorporated into overall manufacturing plans
• Ensures delivery dates are met in accordance with forecasts/PO’s
• Troubleshoots any delays with invoices or payments from partners
• Ensures that systems are in place to support Global Expansion from a Supply Chain, Finance, and Accounting perspective
• Develops processes to support Global Expansion in a compliant and effective way
• Manages all aspects of Supply and Licensing Agreements with Partners
• Serves as Supply Chain launch lead for all new market expansions (including developing the launch plan, confirming launch quantities, labeling and artwork, etc.)

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business
• Minimum 10 years Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, or Supplier Management
• 5+ Years in Pharmaceutical industry
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, proficiency with planning techniques/tactics, and expertise in advanced excel for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience in virtual manufacturing and/or working directly with Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs)
• Deep understanding of end-to-end global supply chain processes, including manufacturing, logistics, and inventory With the ability to develop and document supply chain processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex information to various audiences and influence decision making across teams
• Strong self-management skills: Self-motivated, results-driven, with a high level of attention to detail
• Ability to stay focused and driven without constant supervision to meet deadlines and goals, effectively manage workload and stay productive
• Knowledge of ERP systems
• Ability to foster collaboration and build strong working relationships with diverse internal and external partners
• Direct project experience with New Product Launches
• Direct and proven experience working with GMP Labeling processes
• Demonstrated success in project planning, resource management, liaison with engineering and manufacturing resources
• Strong compliance orientation within a Pharmaceutical environment and attention to detail
• Working knowledge of Regulatory impacts relating to topics such as technical transfer, labeling changes, method changes, new filing applications, etc.

Work Environment:

The work is performed primarily in a remote office environment with occasional required in person office work, meetings, and/or travel. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to use hands to type, handle paperwork and sort, file or manipulate documents. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee is required to utilize audio visual programs for frequent meetings and discussions with fellow employees, vendors, outside agencies and/or customers. The employee may lift and/or move up to 10 pounds occasionally.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

Radius Health, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or protected veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Radius Health, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

At Radius Health, Inc., we have a commitment to our culture and to our employees’ well-being and work-life balance. We support this mission by offering a compensation package with medical, dental and vision benefits. We also provide parental leave, a 401K match and a generous time off plan including two company shutdowns; the week of July 4th and the last week in December. We are proud to provide a competitive salary range for the Associate Director, Drug Product Planning, which is $158,000 - $170,000.

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