Head Supply Chain & External Manufacturing - North America

At Dr. Reddy's "Good Health Can't Wait" 
By joining Dr. Reddy’s, you will contribute to making the breakthroughs of tomorrow a reality today! From making medicines more affordable to discovering innovative treatment options to satisfy unmet medical needs, we are dedicated to helping people lead longer and healthier lives. We are seeking dynamic and energetic individuals ready to inspire, ready to make a difference for their community and every community. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 
At Dr. Reddy’s, we are deeply committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where everyone belongs and is valued for their contributions to the team.  We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the role and are open to exploring candidates with a less traditional background.  

Dr.Reddy's North America Group seeks an exceptional leader to Head the region's Supply Chain and External Manufacturing Operations. The Head of Supply Chain will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end supply chain operations for North America, ensuring efficiency, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted delivery of products.  The role focuses on strategic planning, operational excellence, supplier relationship management, inventory optimization and distribution.  The role will strive to achieve Zero Failure-to-supply and ensure Supply flexibility is a true differentiator allowing us to promptly respond to customers who need the product at short notice. Leading an overall team size of 20+; the individual will work closely with cross-functional teams to align supply chain activities with business objectives, product launches and customer needs. 

Incumbent will work on a hybrid work schedule from our Princeton, NJ office and will be part of the senior leadership team reporting directly to the CEO – North America.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Demand Planning

​​- Ability to estimate accurate demand patterns by reviewing and analyzing forecasts, market intelligence information on current movements in the market, etc. with Sales & Marketing team on a periodic basis

-  Ability to proactively identify actions for supply chain by constantly monitoring production and sales against plan

-   Ability to monitor orders and order patterns and alert teams when unusual orders or excess orders are observed

- Ability to drive measures for optimizing inventory levels (e.g. Transfer, liquidation, selling to outside parties etc.) through periodic reviews of inventory

Supply Planning

- Ability to plan and track supplies coming from all internal plants and external manufacturers in the US to maintain adequate inventories to ensure availability of supplies in the market

  -  Ability to take interventions to ensure availability of products at the right time and place through optimal capacity utilization - manufacturing capacity utilization, distribution centre capacity utilization, freight utilization, etc.)

  - Work closely with sales and marketing to plan and capture new business (both sustained and one time buys) and continuously keeping an eye for market shortages

  - Ability to work closely with quality teams to ensure timely release of products and timely closure of incident investigations resulting from logistics and warehouse issues

  - Ability to conduct accurate sales inventory operations planning including timely destruction of expired materials

Back Order Management

-  Ability to review inventory coverage and establish initiatives to minimize back orders, uninterruptedly service the market and ensure seamless sales

-  Ability to drive measures to mitigate production delay by collaborating with plant heads / FTO head

  - Ability to evaluate material availability for production in close coordination with sourcing category heads and ensure 'zero' impacts due to input material availability towards production downtime.

Sourcing

- Ability to review inventory coverage for all the materials and establish mechanism to maintain sufficient levels of inventory on all sourced items

  - Ability to continuously look for alternate sources and have a continuous cost improvement program to drive costs down

  - Ability to work with external manufacturers, internal plants regulatory and quality teams to plan and execute the approval of alternate sources (API and Packaging materials)

Warehouse & Logistics Management

- Ability to ensure seamless physical movement/flow of products by effectively managing logistics, communication, warehouse and storage management, material handling and distribution of goods (including reverse logistics)

  - Ability to work with the service provider to set and monitor KPIs to ensure service levels are maintained and delivered and look for opportunities for continuous improvement

- Ability to review existing warehouse space vs. existing demand & future projections basis demand projections and take measures to ensure adequate warehouse coverage.

Partner Management

  - Ability to build and strengthen relationship with key CMO partners to enable launches and completion of strategic projects

-  Ability to Identify partners to de-risk the critical products and to launch new products. 

Digital

- Ability to collect, analyze and drive decisions on massive volumes of data and in almost near real-time

- Knowledge of new technologies and ability to identify opportunities for improving productivity, within functional area, using digitization

• This position is in a hybrid capacity (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
• Travel Requirement: Approximately 20%.

Educational qualification: Bachelor’s degree, Masters preferred along with Supply Chain specialization

Minimum work experience: 10+ year's experience in all aspects of global supply chain management

• Should have experience in managing demand planning & supply chain in Pharma in a global organization for 5-6 years in a Developed Market Space

Skills & attributes:

• Takes calculated risks & set industry-leading targets to drive growth and achieve cost leadership
• Gets things right the first time through agility, discipline & rigor in execution
• Nurtures & inspires people & teams to collaborate and learn continuously
• Is patient-centric and develops breakthrough solutions through digitization, process simplification & continuous improvement
• Focuses on outcomes and takes ownership for results, with quality, productivity & cost as key levers
• Delivers value by building deep functional expertise in our domains
• Deep and up-to-date understanding of technological trends and best practices in the industry
• Strong collaborator between global supply chain, manufacturing and commercial teams with ability to resolve planning issues
• Ability to optimize service while managing costs through strong implementation of processes
• Ability to foresee potential challenges, mitigate risks and optimize allocation outcomes
• Mentor and develop successful global teams
• Functional Budget management
• Cross functional stakeholder management and executive presence
• Due diligence of potential M&A activities

*Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident of U.S. or otherwise authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. 

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