Who We Are: A Mission Driven Company
Novavax has a rich history of innovation to help eradicate disease, prevent serious illness and save lives. But there is still work to be done. Our people are passionate about the mission and vision that guide our work.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Global Supply Chain Planning & Network Strategy, this individual will work with a team responsible for balancing supply and demand in a constraint-based environment (capacity, labor, planned downtime, working capital, storage, etc.) for development, clinical, and commercial demands, while optimizing inventory to achieve sales and financial objectives, maximizing customer service, and minimizing obsolescence. The successful candidate will actively engage with internal and external colleagues across Finance, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Commercial, and R&D to identify and resolve issues, while ensuring product requirements are met, as well as working on new projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
Essential Functions
- Managing and developing the end-to-end integrated network supply and capacity plans in collaboration with sites and CMOs, optimizing a balance between customer service, inventory, and cost targets.
- Gathering and analyzing clinical, technical, and commercial demand to develop and communicate supply requirements to manufacturing, strategic sourcing, regulatory, quality, finance, and supply chain organizations.
- Supporting S&OP processes by identifying capacity constraints and excesses, recommending optimal network utilization, and developing alternate scenarios for improved decision making.
- Building and maintaining advanced planning models in Anaplan while developing and improving planning processes.
- Driving integrity and accuracy of relevant master data work with sites and CMOs to ensure ERP and planning system data is standardized and fit for purpose.
- Monitoring performance of the supply chain by creating, implementing, and monitoring supply chain KPI’s to drive improvement through preventive and corrective actions.
- Inventory planning and management, including setting and achieving budgets and targets.
- Escalating key ad-hoc issues to stakeholders as needed, driving engagement for quick resolution.
- Working cross-functionally to create, evaluate, and recommend potential solutions to support strategic decision making in short intervals.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- ERP and advanced planning system subject matter expert, preferably SAP S/4 HANA and Anaplan.
- Strong leadership, collaboration and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to solve problems and drive positive change.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver results in a fast paced cross-functional environment.
- Experience with business process design, implementation, and continuous improvement.
- Business analysis experience required, as well as advanced Excel skills
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
Education, Experience, Licenses & Certifications (align with knowledge, skills, and abilities)
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or Logistics/Supply Chain required.
- Minimum 3-5 years of work experience in a Supply Chain/Manufacturing Planning role with Sales & Operations Planning processes. Vaccines/biologics experience preferred.
Our Mission
By leveraging our science, our technology and our people, we will innovate and collaborate to tackle the world’s most significant health challenges.
Our Vision
We envision a world where our technology is amplified to touch the lives of billions, sparking transformation in global health.
Our Values
Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, Agility and Accountability sit at the heart of our culture. They express the mindset and behaviors that guide how we show up, how we work together and how we create impact — for patients, partners and each other.
Our Footprint
Novavax is proudly headquartered in the USA with main offices in Gaithersburg, Maryland. We conduct R&D and manufacturing for our Matrix-M adjuvant in Uppsala, Sweden.
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