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Clinical Supply Chain Consultant

South San Francisco, CA 94080

Posted: 10/28/2025 Employment Type: Contract To Hire Industry: Scientific Job Number: 12410 Pay Rate: $80.00 - $100.00 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.


Position Details:
  • Employment Type: Consultant (Contract)
  • Hours: 40 hours per week for six months minimum. Conversion to an FTE role if the team member demonstrates a technical and cultural fit at the Company and alignment with the Company’s Core Values.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Strategic Leadership: Develop and optimize global supply chain strategies for clinical (small molecule/biologic) programs, aligning with development plans, future commercialization, regulatory needs, and corporate objectives.
  • End-to-End Supply Management: Oversee all supply chain aspects, including:
  • Clinical Supply: IMP demand forecasting, packaging, labeling, distribution, returns, and destruction for global clinical trials, ensuring timeline and budget adherence.
  • Comparator Sourcing: Strategically plan and execute the sourcing, procurement, and management of comparator products for clinical trials, ensuring quality, authenticity, and timely delivery.
  • Commercial Supply: Strategic planning, launch readiness, manufacturing coordination, inventory, warehousing, and distribution for commercial products.
  • Transition Management: Lead seamless transition of drug products from clinical development to commercial supply, including tech transfer, scale-up, and commercial readiness.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Lead cross-functional teams (Clinical Ops, QA, Regulatory, Manufacturing, CMC, Commercial, Finance) for integrated execution across the product lifecycle.
  • Vendor & CMO/CDMO Management: Select, help qualify, and manage third-party vendors, CMOs, and CDMOs for clinical packaging/labeling, storage, distribution, and commercial manufacturing, ensuring performance against KPIs/SLAs.
  • Forecasting & Planning: Lead accurate clinical supply forecasting (based on trial design/enrollment) and robust commercial forecasting (with commercial teams), translating into comprehensive supply plans.
  • Risk Management: Proactively identify supply chain risks (e.g., manufacturing delays, regulatory changes, logistics, market fluctuations) and develop mitigation strategies for uninterrupted clinical and commercial supply.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all supply chain activities comply with global GMP, GDP, GCP, and relevant regulatory requirements (FDA, EMA, Health Canada, etc.) for clinical and commercial products.
  • Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in supply chain, implementing best practices, new technologies, and efficient processes to enhance effectiveness, reduce costs, and improve reliability.
  • Budget Management: Develop and manage the overall supply chain budget for programs/products, tracking expenditures and identifying cost efficiencies.
  • Documentation: Ensure meticulous documentation and record-keeping for all supply chain activities, ready for audit/inspection. Qualifications:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred but not required.?

Job Requirements

Experience:
  • 10+ years progressive supply chain experience in pharma/biotech.
  • Demonstrated expertise managing clinical and commercial supply chains for small molecule/biologic products across all development phases and commercialization, including product launch.
  • Proven experience in comparator sourcing and management for global clinical trials.

Technical Skills:
  • In-depth knowledge of global regulations for pharma supply chains.
  • Strong understanding of drug development, clinical operations, and commercialization strategies.
  • Proficient in supply chain forecasting, ERP/MRP, IRT and logistics.
  • Experience with cold chain management for biologics.
  • Familiarity with import/export regulations.
  • Knowledge of global regulations and best practices for comparator product sourcing.

Leadership & Soft Skills:
  • Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, influencing and collaborating with diverse stakeholders.
  • Proven strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making under pressure.
  • Strong project management, managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Detail-oriented, committed to quality, compliance, and operational excellence.
  • Adaptable and able to lead through ambiguity.

Meet Your Recruiter

Melissa Politron
Recruiter

As a Compass Recruiter, Melissa "Mel" is excited about rediscovering her passion in helping candidates find opportunities that will excel their professional lives and improve their personal lives. She brings a deeply-rooted excitement to the team by understanding the people she works with and finding ways she can support them. Mel's connections with others inspires her to make a difference in the overall well being of her colleagues, candidates and clients alike. 

Outside of Compass, Mel enjoys cooking, dancing and being a mom to her three wonderful boys. She has an obsession with home organization and thoroughly enjoys solving other families' organizational needs. Mel is also very passionate about One Heart Source, a humanitarian organization that combats conditions such as poverty, diseases and illiteracy through education. She participated as a summer volunteer teacher in Tanzania and credits the organization for shaping her into the person she is today. 

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