Role Overview
The successful candidate will work directly with the Material Science team to support the establishment and maintenance of an external supply network. The candidate will support development and early clinical starting materials, drug substances, and drug products needed for the development and manufacture of investigational products. This position will be responsible for all indirect procurement-related tasks such as sourcing activities, Request for Proposals (RFP’s), managing supplier relationships, ERP system responsibility, procurement process optimization, and scale-up support of Revolution Medicines’ pipeline compound development and clinical programs.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager in the oversite for supply of non-GMP and GMP critical materials, including but not limited to viral vectors, plasmids, cell starting materials, plasmids and RNPs for use in various phases of clinical development.
- Serve as strategic sourcing point of contact for technical development material and reagent sourcing activities.
- Work closely with Sr. Strategic Sourcing Manager to manage pipeline program vendor and sourcing needs, costing, and invoicing; ensure payment of invoices for project activities are made in a timely manner.
- Facilitate review of contracts, as well as implementation of contracts into the purchasing system.
- Coordinate shipments between Legend and external suppliers by serving as liaison between logistics team and laboratories.
- Manage technical development and clinical materials inventory as needed.
- Build and foster relationships with external suppliers while aligning and integrating internal SME and key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Quality department to ensure GMP practices are followed by external partners and support material sciences technical evaluation role in site qualification.
- Support client communications related to critical raw materials development & supply for multiple clinical cell and gene therapy programs.
- Participate in internal cross-functional communication between departments such as Tech Ops, Quality, and Procurement to keep track of tasks and deliverables.
Requirements
- BS/MS (or relevant experience) in chemistry, biology, immunology, biomedical engineering or other related biological sciences preferred.
- ≥ 3 years of experience working in cGMP pharmaceutical or similar.
- ≥ 5 years of procurmeent experience
- Familiarity with sourcing and procurement procedures and technologies preferred.
- Knowledge of cGMP guidelines and experience working with quality department.
- Understanding of molecular and cell biology preferred.
- Experience with varying cell starting material and/or manufacturing processes preferred.
- Provide purchasing, shipping and invoice review support to technical development team.
- Ability to operate independently and in a cross-functional team environment.
- Experience communicating with global suppliers for materials and external sourcing programs.
- Strong verbal communication skills and experience talking with contractors and external partners.
