Clinical Trial Supply Manager

Job Description Summary

We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine.

Novartis mission: At Novartis, we reimagine medicines to improve and extend people s lives.
Global Clinical Supply Vision: To become an intelligent, agile organization to deliver more products to more patients more efficiently, through empowered and highly capable Global Clinical Supply teams.
Clinical Trial Supply Manager Vision: Be a trusted business partner by designing & delivering clinical supplies to serve our patients with excellence

Job Description

HSEMajor accountabilities:

• CTSM will be responsible for study supply leadership to ensure timely planning and execution of supply strategy for continued supply of clinical finished goods (supply drugs) to patients.
• Study managers provides inputs in clinical study protocol, understand study design and are responsible for optimal clinical trial supply strategy in terms of packaging design, pro- active planning following a risk-based approach
• Represent Global Clinical Supply as a single point of contact (SPOC) at trial level for the integrated Clinical Trial team (iCTT).

Accountability and leadership

• Self awareness
  • Open to seek and receive feedback
  • Having Right attitude

Operational & Project excellence

• Proactive in study planning and assigned portfolio
• Ensures to have robust risk management (identification and mitigation of risks) and various scenario to support decision making process
• Able to navigate through current processes and procedures , while focusing on continuous improvement
• Setting priorities and holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.

Stakeholder management & Interpersonal skills

• Able to engage, influence, align and lead internal and external business partners
• Ability to work well with diverse groups of people, handles conflict & challenging situations effectively and builds formal and informal relationships

Communication Skills & Business mindset

• Able to communicate effectively with different audiences
• Ability to consider business necessities and financial indicators when taking decisions and or/managing budgets.

Managing Change

• Ability to effective rebound from set-backs and adversity when facing difficult situations
• Ability to adopt to different situations and to operate effectively during times of uncertainty.

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

• Functional Breadth.
• Managing Crises.
• People Challenges.
• Collaborating across boundaries.
• Operations Management and Execution.
• Project Management.
• 3-4 years relevant experience.

Skills:

• Advanced Project Management.
• Supply Chain Planning.
• Supply-Chain Management.
• Data & Digital Savviness with high learning agility
• Knowledge of relevant regulations (GMP, HSE)

Languages :

• English.

Skills Desired

Continual Improvement Process, Master Data, Material Requirements Planning (Mrp), Materials Management, Production Planning, Supply-Chain Management, Supply Chain Planning, Technical Requirements, Waterfall Model, Wms (Warehouse Management Systems)