Director, Continuous Improvement & Infrastructure

Join a Legacy of Innovation 110 Years and Counting!

Daiichi Sankyo Group is dedicated to the creation and supply of innovative pharmaceutical therapies to improve standards of care and address diversified, unmet medical needs of people globally by leveraging our world-class science and technology. With more than 100 years of scientific expertise and a presence in more than 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo and its 15,000 employees around the world draw upon a rich legacy of innovation and a robust pipeline of promising new medicines to help people. Under the Group's 2025 Vision to become a "Global Pharma Innovator with Competitive Advantage in Oncology," Daiichi Sankyo is primarily focused on providing novel therapies in oncology, as well as other research areas centered around rare diseases and immune disorders.

Summary

This position is responsible for establishing and then optimizing the Global CSO roadmap depicting procedural ways of working across all Global CSO regions (i.e. JP, US, GER, CN). The position will also be responsible for chairing a Global Innovation Forum designed to consistently evaluate organizational, process and technology improvement proposals from G-CSO members, harnessing inputs from all levels of mgmt and individual contributors. Additionally, the position will act as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to support process improvements from other business partners (e.g. RDU, QAU) with a bearing on G-CSO ways of working and human resources. In the infrastructure area, this role provides Project Mgmt Office (PMO) role and meeting facilitation for the highest levels of G-CSO governance meetings (G-CSO Committee, Regional Head Call (RHC). Ensures progress is continuously achieved on initiatives between meetings in a consistent fashion. As for Clinical Trial Material mgmt focus, this role is also responsible for enabling the on-time delivery of clinical supplies for limited high profile programs with the greatest financial, technical, and geographic complexity and represents the highest priority across the Daiichi Sankyo portfolio. This includes but is not limited to assuring availability of comparator products, investigational drug product, interpreting clinical protocols, development of complex Supply Plan Agreements (SPA), and generation and maintenance of numerous study-level budgets. This position is also responsible for significant budget development and control given the comparator sourcing and GMP processing costs associated with later stage program support.

Responsibilities

- Develop and optimize G-CSO ways of working roadmap in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders. Serve as SPOC for continuous improvement projects initiated by other key stakeholders (e.g. RDU, QAU)

- Chairing and forward mgmt of Global Innovation Forum. Prioritize projects in conjunction with G-CSO Leadership team based on immediate, midterm and long term business needs

- Serve as Project Mgmt Office (PMO) / Global Staff role for highest level of G-CSO governance meetings (G-CSO Committee, Regional Head Call (RHC). Ensures progress is made between meetings with members

- Collaborate with clinical teams on forecasting and delivering supply assessments to the appropriate planning functions within Global-PT. Develop both detailed program and study-level budgets frequently involving high value comparator products.

- Understands the overall Compound Development Plan (CDP) and critical longer-term deliverables for CSO. Makes recommendations for strategic sourcing of comparators, and placement of work based on CDP requirements and in alignment with CSO mgmt. Manages the planning and execution of CSO work streams in close collaboration with SPL support.

- Mentors junior staff on best practices and approaches for planning CTM delivery and relationship building with Clinical colleagues

Qualifications: Successful candidates will be able to meet the qualifications below with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Education Qualifications (from an accredited college or university)

- Bachelor's Degree BA or BS required

- Master's Degree in Supply Chain Management preferred

- PharmD preferred

Experience Qualifications

- Minimum 10 years of related experience, including Project Management required

- Oncology experience is preferred. Creation of process flow diagrams via MS Visio highly preferred

Travel

Ability to travel up to 10% Overnight/ single-day travel will be required to go to outsourcing vendors from time to time in frequently.

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.