Supply Relationship Manager

Job description

Nombre del sítio: USA - Pennsylvania - King of Prussia, Durham Blackwell Street
Fecha de publicación: Feb 13 2024

GSK set a goal to be one of the world’s most innovative, best performing and trusted healthcare companies. GSK strategy is delivering results and we have made significant progress to invest in and reshape the company.

GSK now has an exciting one-time opportunity to create two, new leading companies, each with the ability to improve the health of hundreds of millions of people:

·  New GSK; a leading biopharma company with an R&D approach focused on science related to the immune system, use of genetics and new technologies,
·  and a new; leader in Consumer Healthcare, with category leading power brands and innovation based on science and consumer insights

To build for this future, GSK want to ensure that both companies can compete effectively in a challenging, fast-moving healthcare environment and invest in strong sources of Innovation and growth.  A key component for the success of the New GSK will be the ability to deliver specialty medicines to patients reliably through an expanding internal and external network.  Due to the complex nature of specialty medicines close partnership and collaboration with external partners is critical for the New GSK to be competitively successful.  The Specialty External Manufacture team is accountable for the operational oversight and management of all Specialty external suppliers.

The guiding principles of our SEM group Include:

·  Developing strong relationships with existing and new external specialty partners.
·  Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders to drive a robust end to end supply chain performance.
·  Ensure that supply of existing and new products is delivered in line with commercial ambition.
·  Develop and improve ways of working to build an efficient and effective organization.
·  Collaborate across GSK, including R&D and Commercial to deliver the future portfolio of specialty medicines.

This role is part of the SEM Team, working alongside our partners in all areas of SEM including Finance, Procurement, Franchise, Technical, and Quality

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to ensure the efficient, timely and reliable supply of materials/ products from a designated number of external 3rd party contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) to commercial markets and GMS sites, throughout the duration of the contract.

·  Act as the principal point of contact for the day to day business relationship for the assigned CMO’s.
·   Lead a cross-functional team to ensure end-to-end oversight of assigned CMO’s, ensuring reliable on-going supply, quality, customer service, compliance and value for the life cycle of the contract and across the life cycle of the material / product portfolio with the CMO’s.
·  Develop beneficial relationships with the assigned contract manufacturers in order to deliver increased competitive advantage through lower cost, customer service & quality within the framework of the Supply Agreements (MSA) / SLA’s and Quality Agreements (QA) with these CMO.
·  Appropriately identify risks and mitigating actions as well as Continuous Improvement activity to support reliable quality and supply at appropriate cost

Key Responsibilities

As a Supply Relationship Manager you will Perform day to day transactions to facilitate product flow between suppliers and GSK, Including;

·  Establish relationships based on trust and collaboration with all stakeholders E2E for the CMOs/ products the supplier relationship manager is responsible for.
·  Effective flow of information both internally & externally to process orders, using designated GSK tools.
·  Partnering with the planning organization to ensure OTIF delivery of required stock, and future planning for forecasted requirements.
·  Partnering with the quality organizations between GSK and suppliers to ensure product flow.
·  Partnering with the technical organizations between GSK and suppliers to ensure that the process performance meets GSK expectations, and that the supplier is receiving the technical support necessary.
·  Processing shipment documentation.
·  Coordinating sample movement.
·  Confirming supply schedules and performance against target, inputting into SEM KPIs.
·  Escalation and management of priorities to support patient supply.
·  Coordinating sub team meetings as necessary to resolve issues aligned to technical, quality and supply concerns.
·  As this is an interface role, good influencing and communication skills both internally and externally are key to success in the role.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

·  Bachelor's level education or 5+ years in Supply Chain or Procurement
·  2+ years of Experience with GSK or equivalent ERP systems for operations
·  2 + years’ experience of supply chain or procurement operations

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

·  Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish credibility.
·  Strong communication skills, both written and verbal in English.
·  Drives performance against timelines.
·  Facilitation skills — both large and small groups.
·  Strong learning agility.
·  Tenacious self-starter.
·  Completer finisher.
·  Courageous in asking questions and challenging.
·  Strong critical thinker.
·  An understanding of On Time In Full supply
·  Experience with data tracking and KPI accountabilities.

Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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