Thermo Fisher Scientific

Demand and Supply Manager

Pennsylvania, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Junior (1 to 2 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, HealthcareIndustries

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time Work Schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions: Office Location Type: Global (remote)

Position Overview

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

We are the Clinical Trials Division (CTD): We Supply the Hope that Changes Lives. CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time - a concept that we internally adopt as "There is a Patient Waiting." Our unique blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more. Our more than 4000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

A Day in the Life

  • Design, Implement, Interpret and Review inventory management plans to forecast supply plans of study drugs for global clinical trials, using sound supply chain techniques.
  • Provide input into User Requirement Specifications of Interactive Response Technology (IRT) medication management module and complete User Acceptance Testing if required.
  • Review IRT strategy to ensure it supports the strategic supply plans and that IRT settings are adjusted to optimize the supply and demand.
  • Ensures plans are robust and optimizes global and regional supply strategies to ensure continuity of subject supply in the most effective and efficient manner.
  • Develop and provide clients with reports on actual project spend versus budget.
  • Establishes connections between demand planning team and S&OP ensuring the latest forecast information is aggregated and integrated into the divisional S&OP process.
  • Partners with the Enterprise Project Manager, along with global and site project management teams and/or directly with the customer to proactively share key client data to facilitate an effective supply chain planning cycle.
  • Ensure temperature excursion process is performed as required.
  • Establish and maintain financial forecasts and monthly billing processes for assigned client projects.
  • Assist in training and on-boarding of new employees (buddy concept).
  • Stay on top of relevant cGMPs, GCPs, and other regulatory requirements and ensure study management activities are aligned.
  • Demonstrate and promote company vision.
  • Conduct activities in a safe and efficient manner.

As Demonstrated By:

Project Management

  • Structures demand plans in line with client strategy — starting from an identified need, sets objectives and specific goals.
  • Speaks and writes in a clear, concise, and organized way. Listens carefully to others to ensure understanding and effective communication.

Technical Knowledge

  • Independently digests data that is applicable to project results and collaborators.
  • Handles the demand planning part of projects efficiently in different systems and maintains their own as well as the team’s accountability for using Thermo Fisher tools to help the team be successful.
  • Demonstrates technical proficiency and uses innovations to advance the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes, procedures, and outputs.
  • Knowledge of general inventory and billing principles, good documentation practices, and report generation.
  • Project Management Leadership

Skills

Supply Chain Management
Inventory Planning
Forecasting
Clinical Supply
Project Management
User Acceptance Testing
IRT Strategy
Logistics

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Provides life sciences products and services

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a variety of products and services that support scientific research and healthcare, including laboratory equipment, reagents, and software solutions. Their products are used in applications like protein biology, real-time PCR, and sequencing, serving clients such as academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Unlike competitors, Thermo Fisher emphasizes customer support and education, helping clients optimize their experiments. The company's goal is to be a leading provider of life sciences solutions that contribute to a healthier and safer world.

Waltham, MassachusettsHeadquarters
1956Year Founded
$17MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Biotechnology, HealthcareIndustries
10,001+Employees

Risks

Increased competition in single-use bioprocessing may impact market share.
Sale of anatomical pathology business could create a temporary product gap.
Investment in miDiagnostics may face regulatory challenges affecting returns.

Differentiation

Thermo Fisher offers a comprehensive range of life sciences products and services.
Their well-known brands include Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, and Invitrogen.
They provide strong customer support and educational resources to optimize client workflows.

Upsides

Expansion of biologics production facility enhances capacity for precision biologics monitoring.
Investment in miDiagnostics aligns with demand for rapid diagnostic solutions in BioPharma.
Collaboration with Mainz Biomed positions them in the growing cancer detection market.

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