Company Name: Charles River Laboratories
Location: Rockville, MD, US - 20850
Job Duration: 2024-12-20 to 2025-01-19
For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
Works closely with the Sr. Director of Operations for development and deployment of strategy to improve the Supply Chain. Provide focused leadership for Planning and Materials Management teams. Develops and ensures effective and efficient operations of planning, contracting, receiving, storage, distribution and inventory management of the Rockville Cell and Gene Therapy CDMO site on a day-to-day basis.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
• Actively participate in developing strategies, plans, and tactics to drive best-in-class demand and supply planning, inventory accuracy and service levels.
• Develop and lead 5S projects to improve organization of storage areas
• Promotes and creates operational effectiveness and efficiencies in assigned areas to improve financial performance.
• Provides leadership to Supply Chain department team members through setting goals which align to the entity’s annual operating plans and managing the execution of goals through coaching and mentoring.
• Directs and maintains a comprehensive material distribution and receiving program in a CGMP regulated environment.
• Direct teams to remove obstacles and implement practices which ensure customers receive products in a timely manner using cost efficient practices (workforce planning, inventory management, purchasing, systems utilization).
• Identifies and implements actions to maximize synergistic opportunities between all global entities.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory bodies with jurisdiction over assigned area.
• Establishes and implements departmental and organization goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Develops and manages the annual budget for Materials Management.
• Hires and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides ongoing performance feedback and maintains a safe and professional work environment.
• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.
Job Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or Supply Chain/Materials Management related body of knowledge, an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 10 years Supply Chain experience with pattern of progressing responsibilities.
• 7 years leading people. Experience in a GMP and/or CDMO operation is highly desired
• 5 years of experience working with Supply Chain software. Experience with global supply chain teams including policy and procedure development, strategy formulation, regulatory compliance, quality systems and product life cycle planning.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to set goals and provide positive and constructive feedback respectfully to build positive relationships and improve business results.
• Ability to create and present well-organized reports/plans/ideas and other information to various levels of leadership.
• Ability to develop statistical analysis into meaningful data for decision making.
• Experience with electronic inventory control and tracking systems (ERP).
• Intermediate proficiency with SAP software strongly preferred.
• Excellent negotiating skills.
• CMRP Certification (Certified Materials and Resource Professional) is a plus.
Compensation Data
The pay range for this position is $170,300 – $220,353. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
About Biologics Testing Solutions
With more than 50 years of experience and proven regulatory expertise, the Charles River Biologics group can address challenging projects for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Offering a variety of services such as contamination and impurity testing, protein characterization, bioassays, viral clearance studies and stability and lot release programs, we support clients throughout the biologic development cycle, from the establishment and characterization of cell banks through preclinical and clinical studies to marketed products. Whether clients need stand-alone services, a unique package of testing, or insourced support, our Biologics group can create a custom solution to suit their needs. Each year more than 20,000 biologic testing reports are sent each and over 200 licenses products are supported by our biologics testing solutions team.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer – all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran or disability status.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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