Manager, Logistics - 2nd Shift
Immatics
Summary
The Manager leads the logistics team and partners closely with Manufacturing, Quality Control, Quality, Supply Chain, Process Development, Finance, and other functions to ensure material availability, inventory accuracy, cGMP compliance, and reliable support of clinical and commercial manufacturing. This role is responsible for the compliant and reliable flow of direct and indirect materials from receipt through storage, manufacturing consumption, and finished-goods shipment.
Job description
Schedule: 2nd shift: 3:30 PM – 11:30 PM; Monday to Friday; On-site. Weekend, holiday, and off-shift call-in coverage required to support manufacturing operations and emergent system events.
In this role you will:
- Lead, develop, and coach the logistics and warehouse team, establishing clear expectations, priorities, performance goals, and accountability.
- Oversee receiving, inspection coordination, put-away, storage, picking, staging, inventory control, and shipping of direct materials, indirect materials, consumables, components, and finished goods.
- Ensure appropriate control of quarantined, released, rejected, expired, damaged, and obsolete materials.
- Maintain accurate inventory through effective lot and location control, FEFO, cycle counting, physical inventory, expiration management, and inventory reconciliation.
- Ensure timely material availability and movement to manufacturing based on production schedules and operational priorities.
- Oversee material issuance, consumption, returns, and reconciliation against manufacturing process orders, ensuring accurate and timely ERP transactions.
- Develop and maintain effective replenishment strategies, including Kanban, reorder points, and other material-flow methods.
- Oversee finished-goods shipping and temperature-controlled or time-sensitive logistics, including management of carriers, couriers, and third-party logistics providers.
- Ensure warehouse and logistics activities comply with cGMP, approved procedures, safety requirements, and applicable regulatory expectations.
- Partner with Quality to investigate deviations, inventory discrepancies, shipping excursions, and other logistics-related events and support CAPA implementation.
- Serve as a business process owner and/or subject matter expert for warehouse and logistics processes within SAP or other ERP/WMS systems.
- Develop and monitor KPIs for safety, quality, inventory accuracy, material availability, receiving and shipping performance, productivity, and cost.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on material flow, standardization, scalability, automation, operational efficiency, and inspection readiness.
- Support warehouse capacity planning, departmental budgets, resource planning, audits, regulatory inspections, and future clinical/commercial growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, Life Sciences, or a related field, and 5+ years of experience in logistics, warehousing, inventory management, supply chain, or manufacturing operations, preferably within biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or other regulated environments.
- OR Associates degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, Life Sciences, or a related field, and 7+ years of experience in logistics, warehousing, inventory management, supply chain, or manufacturing operations, preferably within biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or other regulated environments.
- OR High School degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, Life Sciences, or a related field, and 9+ years of experience in logistics, warehousing, inventory management, supply chain, or manufacturing operations, preferably within biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or other regulated environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing operational teams.
- Strong knowledge of inventory management, lot traceability, expiration management, material status control, and inventory reconciliation.
- Experience with ERP/WMS systems.
- Experience supporting manufacturing material movements and associated goods issue, consumption, return, and reconciliation transactions.
- Working knowledge of cGMP requirements and regulated material handling, storage, inventory control, and distribution practices.
- Understanding of temperature-controlled logistics and cold-chain operations preferred.
- SAP S/4HANA, IM/WM/EWM experience preferred.
- Experience developing SOPs, supporting investigations/CAPAs, and participating in audits or regulatory inspections.
- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, Kanban, or other continuous-improvement methodologies preferred.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
- 4 weeks vacation
- 12 paid holidays
- 7 days sick time
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid short/long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match
- Parental leave
- Accident insurance
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Pet insurance
Company overview
Immatics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company and the global leader in precision targeting of PRAME (Preferentially Expressed Antigen in Melanoma), a cancer target expressed in more than 50 different cancer types. Founded in 2000 as a spin-off from the University of Tübingen's Department of Immunology, the company has grown into a publicly traded entity (NASDAQ: IMTX) with operations in Germany and the United States. Immatics specializes in developing T-cell redirecting immunotherapies, including TCR T-cell therapies and TCR bispecifics, for the treatment of solid tumors. The company's proprietary XPRESIDENT™ technology platform enables the identification of tumor-associated peptides (TUMAPs) with unprecedented sensitivity, allowing for the development of highly specific cancer immunotherapies. With a robust clinical pipeline focused on PRAME-targeting therapies, Immatics is advancing multiple programs including IMA203 (anzutresgene autoleucel) for PRAME-positive solid tumors, IMA402 PRAME bispecific, and IMA401 MAGEA4/8 bispecific. The company's innovative approach combines mass spectrometry, genomics, biochemistry, and immunology to create novel cancer treatments that address significant unmet medical needs in oncology.