Senior Manager, End-to-End Commercial Supply Planner
Gilead Sciences
Summary
The Senior Manager, End-to-End Commercial Supply Planner plays a critical role in developing and executing supply plans for commercial small molecule and biologics products. This role partners closely with regional commercial supply chain leads to deeply understand demand planning trends, market dynamics, and promotional activities, ensuring these inputs are fully incorporated into global supply plans. Reporting to the End-to-End Commercial Supply Chain Product Lead, the role leverages tools such as SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response to enable accurate, responsive supply planning and ensure product availability across diverse markets.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
Collaborative Demand-Supply Alignment
Ensure demand signals from regional planning teams are accurately reflected and integrated into the end-to-end supply plans (API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, Finished Goods) to enable uninterrupted supply to global markets.
Supply Planning & Execution
Develop, maintain, and execute detailed commercial supply plans across API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods, integrating demand insights, manufacturing capacities, end-to-end lead times, and minimum remaining shelf-life (MRSL) requirements at both batch release and market delivery to ensure compliant and timely supply.
API Detailed Planning includes:
- Review Part Setups, effective dates & other master data
- Monitor new product supply setup updates
- Manage the API Retest & Expiry Review
- Review and manage MoH across API
- Manage system FPOs, including allocation of ICNs
- Review Demand & Drug Product Supply Plan outliers
- Review DP 5 Year Supply Plan & API 4 Year Supply Plan
- Review API Inventory Health
- Create first draft SRM API Change Analysis slide
- Review Shipping Quantities & Requirements
- Review Lot Level Restrictions for DP Firm Orders
- Provide API Change Analysis Slide
- Provide 4 Year budget volumes during LE
Utilize SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response to build, monitor, and scenario-test supply plans, proactively managing demand changes, supply constraints, expiry risk, and shelf-life-driven trade-offs related to production timing, inventory positioning, and allocation decisions.
Work closely with internal and external manufacturing sites to align production schedules and batch strategies with demand trends, lead-time realities, and MRSL expectations at release and in-market, minimizing write-off risk while supporting commercial priorities and service level commitments.
Inventory & Allocation Management
Optimize global inventory positioning in collaboration with regional supply leads, balancing customer service and cost efficiency. Enable informed allocation decisions in constrained supply scenarios through analysis of demand trends.
Cross-Functional Engagement
Partner with Commercial Operations, Quality, Manufacturing, and Finance teams to ensure supply plans support overall business objectives. Establish strong partnerships with respective regional market leads to maintain ongoing visibility to supply status, risks, and escalations, supporting uninterrupted product availability in market. Support change management initiatives impacting supply plans resulting from commercial or regulatory changes.
Performance Monitoring & Reporting
Track and report key supply planning metrics including supply plan adherence, inventory levels, and service performance. Provide timely updates and escalations to leadership and stakeholders based on supply-demand alignment.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree and Eight Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Six Years' Experience OR PhD / PharmD and Two Years' Experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 6+ years' experience in supply planning or related roles within pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical commercial supply chains.
- Proven experience partnering with regional commercial supply chain leads to incorporate demand planning insights into supply plans.
- Strong experience with SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response or equivalent supply planning tools.
- Knowledge of commercial supply chain dynamics in small molecule and/or biologics product sectors.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to foster collaboration with regional teams.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret demand data and translate into executable supply plans.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a global, matrixed environment.
- Proactive problem-solving mindset and customer-focused approach.
- Up to 10% of travel, including engagement with regional teams, manufacturing sites, and commercial partners.
People Leader Accountabilities
- Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
- Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential.
- Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and Eight Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Six Years' Experience OR PhD / PharmD and Two Years' Experience
- 6+ years' experience in supply planning or related roles within pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical commercial supply chains
- Proven experience partnering with regional commercial supply chain leads to incorporate demand planning insights into supply plans
- Strong experience with SAP ERP and Kinaxis Rapid Response or equivalent supply planning tools
- Knowledge of commercial supply chain dynamics in small molecule and/or biologics product sectors
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret demand data and translate into executable supply plans
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a global, matrixed environment
- Proactive problem-solving mindset and customer-focused approach
- Up to 10% of travel
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- Stock-Based Long-Term Incentives
Company overview
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a leading American biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City, California, that specializes in researching, developing, and commercializing innovative medicines for life-threatening diseases. Founded in 1987, Gilead has grown into a global healthcare leader with approximately 17,600 employees worldwide. The company's primary therapeutic focus areas include HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis (hepatitis B and C), oncology, inflammation, and respiratory diseases. Gilead is renowned for its groundbreaking antiviral therapies, including Sovaldi and Harvoni for hepatitis C, and its comprehensive portfolio of HIV treatments such as Truvada, Atripla, and Biktarvy. The company also developed Veklury (remdesivir) for COVID-19 treatment. Gilead operates as a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ (GILD) and is a component of both the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 100 indices. Through strategic acquisitions like Kite Pharma and Immunomedics, Gilead has expanded into cell therapy and oncology, demonstrating its commitment to advancing medical science and improving patient outcomes globally.