Location: Barcelona.

Logistics and Clinical Supply is a key group embedded within Biopharmaceutical Development (BPD), the large molecule CMC development power-house of AstraZeneca. As part of our team is in Barcelona, Spain you will play a pivotal role in bringing BPD science to patients. We’re right at the front end of an integrated R&D organization delivering life-changing new medicines to clinical trials worldwide. In this role you’ll have the opportunity to work across all of our key therapeutic areas including oncology, respiratory, inflammation and autoimmunity, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, infection and vaccines. We offer a unique and strong collaborative network as part of the broad AstraZeneca family, while at the same enjoying the agility and connectivity of a close, innovative team.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

The Program Manager will contribute directly to delivery of AstraZeneca investigational products to clinical studies. They will manage production planning activities, improving the use of our resources in developing and delivering supply strategy in line with agreed time, volume, cost, and wastage targets, and meeting product specifications and applicable quality standards.

• Independently planning and managing supply strategy for assigned clinical programs. Developing, forecasting and executing production plan for each asset in order to meet customer demands in a manner that is compliant with standards and regulations, minimizes costs and maximizes quality
• Overseeing a small team of multi-functional professionals (Supply Continuity Team – SCT) and supporting it to deliver the supply chain strategy whilst maintaining good alignment with the clinical development plans and overall program goals.
• Supporting change initiatives by gathering relevant information that can be used to find opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the supply strategy. May include both SCT-initiated changes and supporting those developed by more senior staff.
• Uses defined tools, procedures and systems to create and maintain requisite program level information and outputs. Further ensures centralized inventory management including aggregation of clinical demand, creation and review of supply scenarios and allocation of stock to meet agreed recommendations.
• Employs experience and expertise in supply chain management to resolve issues and problems before they disrupt program supply. At a functional level, collects metrics on supply chain capabilities and otherwise applies skills and knowledge to enable enhanced working practices in relation to robust clinical demand / supply management and analysis
• Overall working collaboratively at many interfaces internally and externally to support highly effective program supply delivery

Education & Experience Requirements:

Education

• Degree level education in a relevant subject area or equivalent level of training in service

Required Skills

• Degree level education in a relevant discipline or equivalent level of training in service
• Direct experience working in a development or technical operations environment in the pharmaceutical, scientific or health care product industry
• Working understanding of supply chain planning, inventory and materials management
• Appreciation of the considerations in working in a regulated (GXP) environment
• Experience in managing cross-functional aspects of project delivery
• IT Savvy – demonstrated experience working with technical IT systems
• Ability to work independently under general supervision, work being monitored for technical judgement and achievement.

Desired Skills

• Specific experience in supply chain planning or clinical trials supply
• Some experience leading and managing projects
• Ability to re-engineer processes
• Sound understanding of the drug development process and ideally also experience in some technical aspect of delivering biotech products to the clinic
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and collaborate optimally within cross-functional teams to deliver sophisticated projects

At AstraZeneca, we are at an exciting time of new products and launches. We get to work with innovative and scientific products on our leading-edge end-to-end supply chain, using the latest technologies and modern facilities. We are active players in growth and evolution. It's a clear long-term strategy and we see the role we play. There's a great opportunity to influence how we develop supply chains, promoting a Lean mindset and leading on sustainability. As a global business in stable growth, there are long-term opportunities and multiple pathways to take, from setting up systems and processes to developing technical skills and knowledge. And we do it with a real sense of team spirit, pushing and encouraging each other to achieve our best.

Ready to make a big impact? Apply now and join us in reshaping the future of Logistics and Clinical Supply at AstraZeneca!

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We follow all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.