External Supply Lead

2 weeks ago


Macclesfield, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

**Role Name: External Supply Lead**

**Location: Macclesfield
- UK ; Gothenburg
- Sweden; Warsaw - Poland**

**Competitive Benefits & Salary**

**Closing Date: 5th March 2024**

**About AstraZeneca**:
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

**About the Role**:
Do you have an interest in clinical supply chain and working with external vendors and are you a person who would like to be part of a truly global team and play a key role in getting medicines to patient - then join us as External Supply Lead

**Clinical Manufacture & Supply (C&MS)** within PT&D provides an agile and flexible end-to-end Clinical Supply Chain that manufactures, outsources and delivers supplies and services to hundreds of thousands of patients across the globe.

**Essential requirements**
- BS/MS degree in relevant discipline.
- Supplier relationship and third-party management skills
- Project and change management skills alongside strong stakeholder management skills
- Significant number of years’ experience working within a Supply Chain and/or Procurement environment and working with external providers
- Understanding quality principles and cGMP/GDP requirements
- Strong communication skills and highly collaborative
- Strong influencing, negotiating and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently within a cross functional team
- Proficiency in English (both oral and written) is needed to be successful in this role

**Desirable requirements**
- Experience of negotiating, contracting, and dealing with Intellectual Property, Legal and Commercial issues
- Appropriate depth of technical knowledge for the activity being sourced (Clinical Trial Supply) to be able to fully understand any risks to delivery and make the best use of the technical experts on the team to make effective decisions
- Experience of Lean, such as driving continuous improvement and business process management

**Why AstraZeneca?**

At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development.

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