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Clinical Trial Supplies Planner - Sponsorbased Belgium or Netherlands

Employer
Syneos Health
Location
Belgium; Homeworking
Salary
Competitive
Start date
23 Mar 2023
Closing date
10 Apr 2023

Job Details

Description

Sr Clinical Trial Supply planner - sponsorbased Belgium or The Netherlands

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health
  • We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
  • We are committed to our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
  • We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job responsibilities

Trial Supply Planning (TSP) services, provides planning system configuration, kit demand, and supply network planning services for a portfolio of clinical trials and compounds. Services/deliverables include management of planning master data and parameters, use of clinical supply simulation, forecasting, and planning software to project kit demand, plan depot transfers, plan packaging campaigns, and optimize global inventory. Further services/deliverables will include packaging campaign follow-up through to final release, bright stock management, adherence to the monthly clinical S&OP cycle, and scenario planning/analysis to support decision making.
  • Services rendered will adhere to applicable internal SOPs, WIs, study protocols, and relevant training requirements.
  • Takes ownership of planning related activities from Clinical Supply Integrator/Trial Supply Lead or Trial Supply Planning per transition plan. Thoroughly reviews transition checklist, clinical study designs and pre-configured system specifications.
  • Manage planning master data and parameters across systems and documents (e.g. kit type/bright stock descriptions, label groups, DNS, shelf-life, pack life at depots, safety stock, BOM configuration).
  • Acts as the bright stock owner for studies that have adopted Just-in-time (JIT) labeling, overseeing planning of bright stock, advising on bright stock strategy, and maintaining the bright stock order form (BSOF).
  • Using forecasting and simulation software (Optimizer), with support from the systems team and inputs from CSI/TSL, build or maintain kit demand planning models that reflect all study assumptions, including dosing schedule, distribution network, enrolment forecasts, and actuals.
  • Identify and recommend optimal IWRS site resupply strategies and predictive resupply algorithms.
  • Forecast the global kit demand, from first site opened (FSO) to last patient dosed (LPD).
  • Using supply planning software (OMP+), plan depot transfers and packaging campaigns to maintain safety stock targets at depots and sites, ensuring shelf-life and label constraints are accounted for. Adhere to the clinical S&OP cycle, continuously assessing current inventory, forecasts, BIAS/MAPE, and adapt supply planning accordingly in order ensure successful dose while minimizing scrap.
  • Attend cS&OP (Pre-Demand / Demand / ID&S) meetings to ensure cross CSC alignment on study assumptions, kit demand requirements, DP/API capacity constraints, and allocations.
  • Attend P&L Ops meetings to ensure alignment on P&L requirements, timelines, and bright stock strategy.
  • Attend kit reliability room meetings to voice impacts of delay and prioritize orders during capacity constraints.
  • Develop scenario plans to drive decision making and budgeting. Perform detailed analysis on supply risks, documenting and ensuring transparency to management team and study partners.


Qualifications

What we’re looking for
  • A university/bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and 4-6 years in clinical supply planning or a related role
  • Experience with the following functions preferred: supply planning, packaging & labelling, clinical trial operations, pharma/biotech research and development, inventory management
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, communicates clearly, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization, in both written and oral forms
  • Outstanding teamwork and cross-functional coordination skills. Able to build strong, collaborative relationships, leading cross-functional / virtual teams where required.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health .

Additional Information:
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job. #LI-EW1

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