Job Responsibilities:

• Interacts with project management personnel, attends production planning meetings, and ensures that material requirements for production campaigns are secured.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for the electronic inventory management system and ensures the system is used as designed to process material transactions.
• Ensures that supplies ordered by the Human Application Laboratory are released and available for use as per cGTPs requirements.
• Leads the Supplier Qualification Program and evaluates all new suppliers that provide goods and services to the GMP facility.
• Leads the materials management department and provides instruction to the Materials Management Lead and junior staff.
• Manages all controlled inventory within the GMP. Ensures that materials are available when needed, in the quantities requested, and within expiry.
• Develops creative solutions for material storage. Works within spatial constraints to manage supply and inventory holdings to meet production needs.
• Coordinates shipment of critical patient materials using custom couriers.
• Supervises and mentors all materials management staff. Writes and administers performance evaluations. Approves time off requests and coordinates scheduling of staff activities. Provides daily direction to staff. Ensures staff communicate regularly using huddles and informal meetings.
• Evaluates vendors. Ensures that new vendors are qualified following the established process. Assesses vendor performance on a periodic basis and addresses performance issues using the supplier corrective action process.
• Communicates with purchasing department and ensure that orders are processed. Obtains estimated time of arrival (ETA) for critical materials and communicates updates at production planning meetings. Communicate with vendors and sales representatives on material order forecasts. Seek guidance from vendors about product replacements when notified about backorders.
• Attends all production planning meetings and provides regular updates on material availability. Ensures that all stakeholders are informed about material shortages or materials that do not meet release criteria.
• Ensures all deviations originating within the Materials Management department are properly documented and fully investigated. Implements corrective and preventive actions to ensure the root cause is properly addressed.
• Develops customizable reports for managing materials in recurring production campaigns. Reports will show stock-on-hand, stock-on-order, minimum order, maximum order, and the estimated time of arrival for pending materials.
• Responsible for the implementation, utilization, and continuous improvement of the electronic inventory management solution used to manage inventory holdings and transactions in the department. Serves as the subject matter expert for the system and trains junior staff on system utilization.
• Coordinates with St. Jude central receiving and is the primary point of contact for any issues that may arise with campus deliveries.
• Establishes procedures for materials management that comply with the cGMP, cGTPregulations, and FACT standards.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or directed in order to meet the goals and objectives of the department and the institution
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

Minimum Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Knowledge of ERP or WMS, such as Workday, Oracle or SAP is an advantage.

Minimum Experience:

• Seven (7) years of relevant experience working in a GMP materials management setting is required.
• Supervisory experience is required
• Prior industrial experience in materials management is required
• Three (3) years of experience is required with a Master's degree

Compensation

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has a diverse, global patient population and workforce, built on the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our founder Danny Thomas envisioned a hospital that would treat children of the world-regardless of race, religion or a family's ability to pay. Learn more about our history and commitment.

Today, we continue the mission to advance cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. As we accelerate this progress globally, we believe our legacy of diversity, equity and inclusion is foundational to success. With the commitment of leaders at all levels of the organization, we strive to ensure the St. Jude culture, leadership approaches and talent processes are equitable and culturally responsive. View our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report to learn about the hospital's roots in diversity, equity and inclusion, where we are today and our aspirations for an even better future.

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