clinical supply planner - 10148.

Major accountabilities:

Clinical Supply Planning:

• In alignment with Clinical Supply Lead and Optimization experts, refines the IMP supply strategy to ensure adequate and sufficient forecasting of IMP. 
• Drive production plan, distribution plan and IRT settings throughout the study
• Responsible for creating the IMP distribution strategy to ensure timely and cost efficient delivery to clinical sites using distribution requirements principles.
• Manages IMP demand (forecast) and supply fluctuations in order to ensure timely and effective supply availability throughout trial, while managing the risks and minimizing the supply chain costs
• Acountable for mitigating all supply disruptions, such as Out of Drug situations, temperature excursions, recalls, depot closures, etc. Manages the IRT settings to avoid and mitigate risks.
• Solving issues along the way, analyzing the context, proposing alternatives and  reaching out to stakeholders to seek collaboration with the end goal on meeting  customer’s needs.
• Orders packaging as well as resupplies for IMPs, and track releases. Orders  and oversees expiry update re-labeling (shelf-life extensions)
• Manages inventory, order movements of IMP through the established distribution network.
• Manages study supply chain through the use of KPI's, such as forecast  accuracy, scrap, inventory, enrolment and dispensing rates, etc… 
• Monitors clinical and supply assumptions, as well as actuals, to reevaluate the distribution and supply plan throughout the study

Project coordination and stakeholder management

• Guarantees optimal transfer of information/knowledge from CSSM, enabling an efficient conduct of the study, and ensures all deliverables until the study closure of the project
• Drives strong partnership with stakeholders (DCS functions, Clinical Team, 
• Global Distribution and Logistics (GDL), QA, IRT vendor), acting as a key contributor in Joint Clinical Study Teams as a liaison for DCS during the study maintenance and closure. Educates and influences as needed, to ensure incorporation of DCS input into decisions impacting the IMP supply chain

Others : 

• Ability to travel domestically or internationally for business reasons.
• Compliance : Ensure all compliant related topics are performed on time (Trackwise, Training 
• plan, SOP reviews,...
• Back up activities when required.

Specific skills/competencies

• Supply Chain Expertise: Understands supply chain planning and distribution processes been able to balance cost and service level either to internal 
• Delivering impactful results: understands and defines how own objectives contribute to value creation, and takes initiatives to exceed them
• Thinking holistically: understands the organizational structure and the company Value Chain, and more important, can correlate cause and effect inside the value chain
• Working together: contributes to working with internal and external stakeholders presenting opportunities to enhance performance, communicates effectively
• Disciplined, high sense of urgency and problem solver – Knows how and understands why to prioritize tasks that would block operations and / or jeopardize patient customer service while keeping the discipline to follow strictly  the routine tasks (daily, weekly, monthly)
• English and french

Consultancy

We offer an attractive salary with extra-legal advantages : 

• Group insurance
• Hospitalisation insurance
• Meal vouchers of 7 euros gross per working day
• Reimbursement km or company car 
• Monthly allowance (80 euros net per month)
• A 13th month
• Training
• Etc

A rate as freelance is also possible