Location(s): Netherlands or Switzerland

Level of position: Associate Director

Position type: office-based

Reporting Line: Director, International Supply Chain 

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

The Associate Director, International Supply Chain will lead the partnerships with external partners for commercial packaging, serialization, and provide active support with distribution of Commercial finished goods, including full order-to-cash services. This role will also provide supply chain leadership and support with operational execution and product supply oversight within Blueprint’s collaborations with external distributors beyond our markets in the US and EU. The individual will interact extensively with cross functional groups and stakeholders within Blueprint (US and Europe), including but not limited to Supply Planning, Finance, Quality, Commercial, and Regulatory Affairs. This position is critical for ensuring that commercial packaging meets regulatory, quality, and brand requirements while maintaining continuity of supply. The role requires demonstrated experience in commercial supply chain and project leadership, allowing for the ability to operate effectively within a complex cross functional environment both internally and externally across multiple geographies. internally and externally.

What will you do?

• Responsible for creating supply plans to support Finished Goods inventory requirements, across all EU markets, including UK, CH and CEE.
• Lead the regional Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) process within Europe (including UK, CH and CEE), actively contribute to and participate in the global S&OP, and provide support for the International executive level S&OP.
• Point of contact for commercial packagers, leading day-to-day supply chain communication to ensure that all packaging operations, release, and shipping activities are completed on time.
• Proactively identify and communicate potential supply issues, while developing and implementing mitigation strategies
• Review and approve documentation associated with packaging operations to ensure that all packaging components and processes used for Blueprint’s products maintain product quality throughout 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 label modifications and their impact are fully assessed, understood, and implemented without supply disruptions and with minimal obsolescence
• In coordination with Blueprint’s upstream and downstream trading partners, ensure that international markets serialization compliance requirements for Blueprint’s commercial products are always fully met.
• Maintain and ensure compliance with all SOPs. Identify gaps and make appropriate mitigation recommendations to ensure global compliance. Develop new functional SOPs, as necessary, and provide training to staff.
• Provide active support to the Order to Cash and distribution operations, collaborating with Finance, Commercial and 3PL team (Customer Service and Operations), to ensure on time delivery of product to hospitals and pharmacies.
• Work with other line functions and external partners to manage complex projects, negotiate and communicate supply timelines.
• Collaborate with the Director, Supply Chain International to establish and manage budget for International Supply Chain.

What minimum qualifications do we require?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration or a related field
• 10+ years’ supply chain experience in pharmaceutical or other regulated and GxP environment(s).
• 5+ 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.
• Excellent organizational, planning, interpersonal skills; strong business acumen and decision-making skills required to work with third-party manufacturers/packagers as well as internal colleagues
• Knowledge of integrated manufacturing support systems (i.e. ERP, Specification, MRP)

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate? 

• APICS certification preferred
• Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills to rapidly establish credibility and trust among a broad range of individuals within and outside the company.
• Shows the ability to achieve results in a complex, multi-functional and multi/geographical environment
• 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
• Broad cultural orientation, ideally with some experience of working in an international context.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative mindset.
• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and paradoxes.
• Fluent in English; other languages advantageous.
• 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 global, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines. We seek to alleviate human suffering by solving important medical problems in two core focus areas: allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. Our approach begins by targeting the root causes of disease, using deep scientific knowledge in our core focus areas and drug discovery expertise across multiple therapeutic modalities. We have a proven track record of success with two approved medicines, including bringing our medicine to patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Leveraging our established research, development, and commercial capability and infrastructure, we now aim to significantly scale our impact by advancing a broad pipeline of programs ranging from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell diseases including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer and other solid tumors.

*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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