The Role:\
The role is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly expanding Organization in the biotech Industry. Reporting to the Vice President, Commercial Supply Chain, you will make an immediate impact to our Supply Chain team by managing Moderna\\xe2\\x80\\x99s supply chain in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Being accountable for the Supply Chain Operations in the assigned countries, you will be a Strategic Business Partner to the respective Lead Teams driving customer service and performance maximizing value to internal and external customer. Aligned to this, the Director Supply Chain will ensure that demand & supply plans are being created, maintained, and delivered for in-market and new product introductions in collaboration with commercial planning, finance, and others. \
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To be successful the individual combines supply chain expertise with strong communications skills and works collaboratively in a highly cross functional environment. He/she will quickly build relationships influencing across the Moderna ecosystem to drive competitive advantage, costs effectiveness and robustness of Commercial Supply Chain processes \
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The Position provides an opportunity to operate in a highly collaborative role with both external and internal partners. \
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\Here\\xe2\\x80\\x99s What You\\xe2\\x80\\x99ll Do:\
Leads the Supply Chain Team by supporting, coaching, mentoring and developing team members in reaching supply chain, quality and business objectives. \
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Proactively and continuously challenge the organizational performance and develop and implement improvements in organizational performance \
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Act as a strategic business partner and representative for CMC establishing strong working relationships to ensure alignment on objectives and results \
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Engage Commercial business leaders in resolving strategic demand/supply issues through in-depth analysis and marketplace assessment to understand the risk/benefit tradeoffs between various approaches and opportunities \
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Ensure quality and completeness of demand signal and act as a strategic business partner and representative for CMC on commercial projects, launches and initiatives \
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Responsible for logistics and distribution operations within a country/cluster, including transportation, customs clearances, and warehousing \
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Responsible for an effective relationship management with customers and with Logistics Service Providers for all supply related matters, such as order management and in- and outbound logistics to guarantee high customer service levels \
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Ensures regular communication e.g. thru Demand and Supply Review Meetings or Coordination Committees with external Partners for the purpose of sales and operations planning. \
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Warrants compliant implementation and execution of third party Agreements \
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Manages Order fulfillment and ensures effective management of the customer interface from a supply chain perspective, incl. communication on sales order, deliveries and issue resolution \
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Develop strategic plans for replenishment to market and key customers \
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Ensure customer service levels meet or exceed targets \
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Lead innovative thinking and foster continuous improvement across S&OP processes/ activities \
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Drives appropriate CMC Management Reporting and ensures decision making by leadership team. \
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Accommodates ad hoc tasks which are necessary to achieve the business objectives of the unit and function \
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\Here\\xe2\\x80\\x99s What You\\xe2\\x80\\x99ll Bring to the Table:\
BS/BA in Supply Chain, Science or Economics/Finance with 15 years\\xe2\\x80\\x99 experience. \
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Excellent understanding of the Pharma industry & In-Country supply chain needs strongly preferred (Vaccine experience a plus). \
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8+ years\\xe2\\x80\\x99 supply chain management experience within Pharma or other Lifesciences manufacturing environments. \
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5+ years experience of managing supply expectations, sales order fulfilment and issue resolution with customers \
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Working knowledge of in country supply chain processes including order fulfilment, demand management, S&OP, procurement, master data and life-cycle management. \
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APICS/ASCM CPIM and CSCP accreditations preferred. \
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Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) to collaborate in a dynamic, cross-functional matrix environment \\xe2\\x80\\x93 you are outgoing, communicative, and seek to build relationships on a daily basis \
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Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing environment \
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You drive for results \\xe2\\x80\\x93 you set a high bar for yourself and others. You love what you do, and it shows \
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Demonstrated ability to lead across boundaries (functional and cultural) and form effective working relationships with colleagues. \
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Customer and business focused \\xe2\\x80\\x93 determined to deliver successful outcomes in a cost-effective way. \
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Ability to manage multiple countries in a fast-paced environment \
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Demonstrated change management and process management experience is preferred \
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Moderna offers personalized benefit programs and well-being resources as unique as our global workforce so employees can do their best work. \
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We recognize and appreciate your diverse needs and interests and do our best to support you at work and at home with: \
Quality healthcare and insurance benefits \
Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to well-being \
Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes \
Family planning and adoption benefits \
Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, and a discretionary year-end shutdown \
Educational resources \
Savings and investments \
Location-specific perks and extras! \
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The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work. \
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About Moderna \
In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna\\\'s capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use and approval of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic. \
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Moderna\\\'s mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and autoimmune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com . \
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Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment. \
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