Senior Manager, International Supply Chain

Location(s): Netherlands

Level of position: Senior Manager

Position type: Office-based

Reporting Line: Director, International Supply Chain

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The International Supply Chain Lead, reporting to the Director International Supply chain, will collaborate closely with external partners for secondary packaging and distribution of Commercial finished goods, including serialization and order to cash services. This role will interact with partners within Blueprint including Supply Planning (US), Finance, Quality and Regulatory Affairs. This position is critical for ensuring packaging components, and packaging processes meet regulatory, quality and brand requirements while maintaining continuity of supply.  The International Supply Chain Lead will require demonstrated experience of supply chain and project leadership, allowing for the ability to influence partners within and outside of the Technical Operations group at Blueprint Medicines.

What will you do?

• Responsible for creating the supply plans to support Finished Goods inventory requirements, across all EU markets, including UK, CH and CEE. 
• Support the Sales and Operation Planning process with the different regions and International Leadership Team.
• Point of contact for commercial CPO’s, leading the day-to-day supply chain communication, to ensure that all packaging operations, release, and shipping activities are completed on time.
• Proactively communicate potential supply issues, while developing and implementing mitigation strategy
• Review and approve documentation associated with packaging operations to ensure that all packaging components and processes used for Blueprint’s products maintain product quality through the supply chain.
• Liaise with Regulatory Affairs and Quality to evaluate modifications to packaging components throughout the commercial product lifecycle.
• Review and approve labeling artwork to ensure that the impact of the modification of the labeling on the packaging component(s) is properly assessed and implemented.
• In coordination with Blueprint’s upstream and downstream trading partners, ensure International Markets serialization compliance requirements for Blueprint’s commercial products are met.
• Maintain and ensure compliance to all SOPs.  Identifies gaps and make appropriate mitigation recommendations to ensure global compliance.  Develop new functional SOPs, as necessary, and provide training to staff.
• Support the Order to Cash and distribution operations, collaborating with Finance, Commercial and 3PL team.
• Work with other line functions and external partners to manage complex projects, negotiate and communicate supply timelines.

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field
• 5+ years’ supply chain experience in pharmaceutical or other regulated and GxP environment(s).
• 3+ years’ experience in packaging development and serialization. 
• Strong knowledge of inventory management and distribution operations.
• Experience managing CMO’s, CPO’s and/or 3PL’s
• Must have excellent analytical abilities and project management skills
• Strong communication, collaboration, and team-building skills; ability to connect with all levels of the organization. Ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders.

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Highly collaborative and responsive team player
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to take a proactive approach to problem-solving and risk management
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism

Why Blueprint? 

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Blueprint Medicines is a fully integrated, commercial-stage, global biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines in two core, strategic areas of allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. We pursue discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies that potently and selectively target known drivers of disease, with focused investment in therapeutic areas where we can leverage our core expertise and business infrastructure to bring scale to our science. We are bringing an approved medicine to people living with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, we have a pipeline of research and development programs that range from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell-mediated diseases, including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer, and other solid tumors vulnerable to CDK2 inhibition.

*Blueflex is our operating model which optimizes culture, productivity, & flexibility by maximizing the critical strengths of in-person work with the benefits of added flexibility.  Blueflex allows for mix of in-office and remote work, enables flexibility to meet individual and business needs and makes effective use of our facilities and resources.  It is a culture enhancer.

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