About the Role
Neurona Therapeutics is developing transformative cell therapies for neurological disorders. This role leads supply chain and warehouse operations for late-stage clinical GMP manufacturing and future commercial readiness, ensuring reliable, compliant, and cost-effective availability of GMP materials.
Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of inbound supply chain operations, including procurement, material planning, inventory management, warehouse operations, and supplier management.
- Lead supply chain support for Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) and other external manufacturing partners, coordinating material planning, procurement, inventory, logistics, and production readiness.
- Develop and implement supply chain strategies to support GMP manufacturing while balancing cost, inventory, and operational efficiency.
- Oversee GMP warehouse operations, including receiving, storage, inventory control, material issuance, and compliant material flow.
- Ensure availability of GMP raw materials, consumables, and manufacturing supplies through effective planning, forecasting, and supplier engagement.
- Manage refrigerated, frozen, and cryogenic inventory while ensuring product integrity and compliance with cold chain requirements.
- Establish inventory strategies, safety stock levels, and replenishment processes.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, monitor performance, and develop risk mitigation and business continuity plans.
- Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Process Development, Facilities, Finance, and Technical Operations on manufacturing readiness, capacity planning, supplier qualification, technology transfer, and material lifecycle management.
- Ensure accurate inventory records, material traceability, ERP/MRP transactions, and compliance with GMP documentation requirements.
- Lead and support deviations, investigations, CAPAs, change controls, supplier quality events, internal audits, and regulatory inspections.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, inventory accuracy, scalability, and operational performance.
- Develop supply chain metrics and KPIs to monitor performance and drive data-based decision making.
- Lead, coach, and develop warehouse and supply chain personnel.
- Support expansion of supply chain capabilities, systems, and processes to enable commercial manufacturing and global distribution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, materials management, logistics, planning, or manufacturing operations within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, cell therapy, gene therapy, or biologics industry.
- Demonstrated experience managing end-to-end supply chain activities, including procurement of GMP raw materials, inventory management, warehouse operations, material planning, and distribution of finished goods.
- Experience supporting Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) and external supply partners.
- Experience managing domestic and international shipments, including refrigerated, frozen, cryogenic, and other cold chain logistics for GMP materials and finished products.
- Strong understanding of GMP supply chain operations, inventory control, material traceability, packaging, labeling, distribution, and chain of identity/chain of custody requirements.
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and inventory, planning, procurement, and logistics transactions.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives with Manufacturing, Quality, Technical Operations, Clinical Operations, Finance, and external partners.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated leadership experience developing teams, improving business processes, and implementing scalable supply chain systems and performance metrics.
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Procurement
- Material Planning
- Inventory Management
- Warehouse Operations
- Supplier Management
- Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs)
- Cold Chain Logistics
- GMP Compliance
- ERP/MRP systems
- SAP
- Oracle
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Risk Management
- Business Continuity
- Continuous Improvement
- Data Analytics
- KPI Management
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Talent Development
- Commercial Readiness
- Supply Chain Scalability
- APICS CPIM
- APICS CSCP
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- APICS CPIM certification preferred
- APICS CSCP certification preferred
About the Company
- Neurona Therapeutics is developing transformative cell therapies for patients with serious neurological disorders.
Equal Opportunity
- Neurona is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment.
