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Senior End to End Supply Chain Planner

Takeda

Lexington, MAOnsitePosted 1 day ago$137,000.00 - $215,270.00
Full TimeSenior LevelOperations & Supply ChainPharmaceutical
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Summary

Join us as a Senior End-to-End Supply Chain Planner and help ensure the reliable supply of important biologic medicines to patients.

Job description

About the Role

Join us as a Senior End-to-End Supply Chain Planner and help ensure the reliable supply of important biologic medicines to patients.

This role covers a complex, multi-site manufacturing network and requires end-to-end supply-chain planning across multiple products, markets, and planning horizons. You will connect demand, manufacturing capacity, inventory, quality, regulatory requirements, financial objectives, and business priorities.

You will use your pharmaceutical and biologics experience to translate lifecycle-management decisions into practical and executable supply plans. Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management, the ability to build effective networks across functions and sites, and confidence in influencing decisions in a matrix organization.

How You Will Contribute

Reporting to the End-to-End Supply Chain Lead, you will:

  • Develop and own end-to-end supply plans for assigned biologic brands across short-, medium-, and long-term planning horizons.
  • Translate demand, market changes, manufacturing constraints, and portfolio priorities into feasible supply plans.
  • Coordinate supply planning across multiple manufacturing sites, including capacity, production sequencing, product variants, lead times, release constraints, and market requirements.
  • Lead supply reviews with manufacturing sites and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Identify supply risks, constraints, and supply-demand imbalances, and develop scenarios and mitigation plans.
  • Manage the supply-chain implications of lifecycle activities, including launches, transfers, process or product changes, geographic expansion, discontinuations, capacity changes, and network optimization.
  • Assess the impact of lifecycle decisions on capacity, inventory, materials, production timing, site allocation, market supply, and service performance.
  • Translate lifecycle-management strategy into integrated implementation plans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and escalation points.
  • Build strong stakeholder relationships across manufacturing, quality, regulatory affairs, finance, commercial, procurement, logistics, and manufacturing sciences.
  • Influence stakeholders and drive alignment across sites and functions where priorities and constraints differ.
  • Balance patient supply, service, inventory, working capital, capacity utilization, and financial performance.
  • Support portfolio and network decisions through analysis, scenarios, and recommendations.
  • Ensure supply continuity during operational, portfolio, and manufacturing changes.
  • Drive improvements in planning processes, governance, data quality, inventory performance, and service levels.
  • Communicate complex supply-chain issues clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business administration, industrial engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, production planning, supply network management, or a related pharmaceutical operations discipline.
  • Strong experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with experience in biologics, biotechnology or other complex regulated products.
  • Experience managing supply planning across multiple manufacturing sites, products, markets, or production stages.
  • Experience in product lifecycle management, including launches, transfers, process or product changes, capacity changes, portfolio evolution, and discontinuations.
  • Proven ability to develop and implement integrated plans in response to complex manufacturing, quality, regulatory, lifecycle, and market requirements.
  • Strong understanding of the end-to-end pharmaceutical supply chain.
  • Strong stakeholder-management skills and experience building effective cross-functional and cross-site networks.
  • Ability to influence, negotiate, and create alignment without direct authority.
  • Strong analytical, scenario-planning, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Experience with SAP and/or advanced planning systems such as IBP or OBP.
  • Strong Excel skills and experience with reporting tools such as Qlik or Power BI.
  • Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
  • Fluency in English; additional language skills are an advantage.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business administration, industrial engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related field
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in supply chain planning, production planning, supply network management, or a related pharmaceutical operations discipline
  • Strong experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with experience in biologics, biotechnology or other complex regulated products
  • Experience managing supply planning across multiple manufacturing sites, products, markets, or production stages
  • Experience in product lifecycle management, including launches, transfers, process or product changes, capacity changes, portfolio evolution, and discontinuations
  • Proven ability to develop and implement integrated plans in response to complex manufacturing, quality, regulatory, lifecycle, and market requirements
  • Strong understanding of the end-to-end pharmaceutical supply chain
  • Strong stakeholder-management skills and experience building effective cross-functional and cross-site networks
  • Ability to influence, negotiate, and create alignment without direct authority
  • Strong analytical, scenario-planning, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Experience with SAP and/or advanced planning systems such as IBP or OBP
  • Strong Excel skills and experience with reporting tools such as Qlik or Power BI
  • Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment
  • Fluency in English

Benefits

  • 401(k) Matching
  • Medical, Dental & Vision
  • Paid Time Off

Company overview

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company founded in 1781 and incorporated in 1925. As one of the world's top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies by revenue and the third largest in Asia, Takeda specializes in developing and commercializing innovative medicines across several therapeutic areas including oncology, rare diseases, neuroscience, gastroenterology, plasma-derived therapies, and vaccines. With approximately 49,095 employees globally, the company operates research and development centers, manufacturing facilities, and commercial operations across 39 U.S. states and numerous countries worldwide. Takeda maintains dual headquarters in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, with significant operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it serves as the largest life sciences employer in the state. The company's patient-focused approach is guided by its Takeda-ism values of Integrity, Fairness, Honesty, and Perseverance, emphasizing a commitment to delivering life-transforming treatments while advancing sustainable healthcare solutions. Takeda's extensive portfolio includes both innovative biologics and small molecule drugs, supported by strategic acquisitions and partnerships that have expanded its capabilities in areas such as immuno-oncology and rare disease treatments.

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