What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Supply Operations position at ESPERION THERAPEUTICS INC?
Company Overview
Our Mission: At Esperion, we are working tirelessly to deliver innovative medicines that help patients reach their goals today, tomorrow, and into the future.
Esperion is a fully remote based company with a corporate headquarters located in Ann Arbor, MI. The Company offers a competitive salary including a performance-based bonus program and stock-based compensation, a comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) matching plan and health insurance, and paid time off and holidays.
Position Title: Associate Director, Supply Operations
The Associate Director, Supply Operations is a mid-level role responsible for ownership of a supply chain including production planning, manufacturing operations at CMOs, and assessing commercial supply performance. This role is accountable for ensuring commercial supply performance is met. The individual will perform other tasks and projects in Supply Operations as assigned. The Associate Director, Supply Operations reports to the Director, Supply Operations.
Preferred Location: Remote – US
Essential Duties and Responsibilities*
Lead the assigned value stream including matrix team and assigned vendors:
- Ensure fulfillment of agreed manufacturing services for clinical and commercial supply.
- Monitor and ensure execution of production plan and delivery schedule.
- Manage CMOs relationship and negotiate for needs of value stream and Esperion
- Provide routine updates on vendors and value stream
- Lead Execution of Routine Business Review Meetings with vendors and internal operational reviews for assigned value stream.
- Interfaces with contract manufacturers, forecasts, and orders CMO requirements, manages priorities for batch disposition and delivery with matrix team and CMOs.
Lead the tactical assigned supply chain activities including:
- Direct and escalate actions needed by the CMO/vendor
- Develops and maintains Planning Assumptions including safety stocks, lead-times, order quantities, campaign strategy, batch yields, cycle times, etc for assigned materials. Update bill of materials
- Creates and executes the Production Plan and Schedule to meet and maintain targeted inventories of assigned materials. Creates production planning options for management and financial review as necessary.
- Maintains the corporate perpetual inventory file, ensuring that it is up-to-date and accurate. Performs monthly reconciliation of the corporate balances with site and CMO reported balances.
- Creates purchase requisitions and monitors through order and invoice process, tracking open purchase orders against invoicing and contract pricing.
- Supports the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
Direct the change management activities including:
- CMO activities to support new product launches or product extensions.
- Manages the approval and implementation of new and changed product components.
- Troubleshoots and problem solves as necessary.
additional duties and responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications (Education & Experience)
- B.S. in Business, Pharmacy, Engineering or Life Sciences from accredited college or university. CSCP or CPIM certifications are highly preferred. Significant experience may substitute for earned degree.
- Minimum of 8 years increasing responsibility in Supply Chain and Manufacturing, focused on the pharmaceutical industry.
- Demonstrated MRP/ERP skills, including at least one implementation of SAP, Oracle, etc., systems.
- Experience working in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual environment is necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to work and lead in a dynamic group that takes a multi-disciplined team approach to executing and achieving departmental and corporate goals.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in managing pharmaceutical products, which are virtually manufactured globally.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully work with and influence contract manufacturing partners while maintaining a positive working relationship.
- Demonstrated strong working knowledge of planning. Competence in material management and forecast planning is required.
- Strong ability to analyze complex issues to develop relevant and realistic plans, programs, and recommendations.
- Possess strong conflict management and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated experience in the implementation or improvements of supply chains and quality systems in a commercial setting. Strong understanding and working knowledge of cGMPs for pharmaceutical development and commercial operations.
- International travel may be required (10 to 20%)
