Associate External Partnerships Clinical Supplies

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In the Clinical Supply Chain (CSC) department of Therapeutics Development & Supply (TDS) we combine clinical expertise, planning excellence and digital technology to deliver ‘Hope In A Box’ to our patients. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated colleague who shares our ambition join us as Associate External Partnerships Clinical Supplies, located in Beerse, Belgium or in Horsham, United States of America.

As a key member of the External Partnerships team, you drive the working processes between J&J Clinical Supply Operations and our external partners to ensure reliable and repeatable high levels of service. You will analyze and resolve issues and will seek for efficiency opportunities. The External Partnerships team is focused on delivering cost effective clinical supply in a compliant, supply efficient manner to ensure Successful Patient Dosing. Partnering and closely collaborating with our External Partners, Quality, Engineering, Clinical Source Documentation, Finance, Planning, Clinical Supply Operations, and Logistics will be key to success.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning the order management at the external partner packaging site.
• Ensuring project timelines and business performance goals, objectives and metrics are achieved, including consistency with GMP guidelines and all other compliance requirements.
• Collaborating with the external partner packaging site, manage sourcing cycle times, drive actions at order level for vendor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), supply coordination, and decisions related to clinical supply activities resulting in uninterrupted supply to patients.
• Raising challenges appropriately and support resolution of critical risks and issues, including communication to EP management.
• Collaborate with internal business partners such as Quality, Clinical Source Documentation, Engineering, Logistics, Planning, and Clinical Supply Operations team members to ensure effective supply chain management.
• Identify short term opportunities to drive cost savings and protect supply.
• Support cross-functional projects to improve business process/tools.

Who we’re looking for:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business or science, 0-3+ years related experience.

Experience and Skills

• Knowledge of supply chain principles such as: supplier relationship management, inventory management, supply planning, Lean and 6sigma and other cross-functional business processes common to the pharmaceutical or process industry.
• Knowledge of GMP and/or Quality management systems and processes.
• Strong data analysis skills. Ability to identify process gaps based on data or root cause analysis.
• System savvy (e-marketplace, OMP, SAP R/3 or ERP) and Proficient in MS Office tools.
• Good skills to clearly and appropriately communicate to the external partner and cross functional stakeholders in both written & oral forms.
• Ability to work in a cross functional and cross cultural environment, considering diverse perspectives and styles.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task and manage complexity.
• Attention to detail.
• Proficient in English.
• You aim to make a difference and achieve results. Your continuous improvement attitude and innovative thinking will help you to identify opportunities and related business needs.