Senior Materials Leader, Cell Therapy Site Ops & Traceability

AstraZeneca plc; California (MD); Presencial; USD 124.000 - 186.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

AstraZeneca plc in the United States seeks an Associate Director, Materials Management to lead patient materials management at Santa Monica and Tarzana manufacturing sites. You will own COI/COC traceability across autologous and allogeneic programs, ensuring compliant receipt, manufacturing, and pack-out of drug products.

You will drive real-time issue resolution, continuous improvement, and coordination with Quality, Production, and Logistics to sustain supply chain integrity for cell therapies

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field.
• 8+ years experience in biopharma supply chain, logistics or cell therapy operations.
• Strong understanding of COI/COC controls and operational requirements.
• Experience in real-time issue resolution, exception management, and CAPA leadership.
• Working knowledge of GDP, GMP, and GxP requirements, including deviation/quality processes.
• Ability to lead through influence and maintain high execution quality.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Lead patient materials management across autologous programs, ensuring COI/COC from receipt to pack-out.
• Lead healthy donor materials management across allogeneic programs, ensuring COC across chain.
• Coordinate receipt and pack-out schedules with manufacturing, QA, and logistics teams.
• Own COI/COC processes at the site with SOPs, monitoring status via digital tools.
• Ensure discipline for COI/COC traceability and adherence to workflows and data capture.
• Support readiness and hypercare for new studies, products, and countries.
• Lead exception management and escalation for traceability deviations.
• Support investigations, root cause analyses, and CAPAs with Quality.
• Support impact assessments for new product launches and country expansions.
• Track metrics and identify improvement opportunities to enhance reliability.

Conocimientos

Biopharma supply chain exp

COI/COC controls knowledge

Issue resolution

GDP/GMP/GxP knowledge

Leadership through influence

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain/Engineering/Life Sciences

Herramientas

Power BI

Excel

Smartsheet

Descripción del empleo

AstraZeneca plc in the United States seeks an Associate Director, Materials Management to lead patient materials management at Santa Monica and Tarzana manufacturing sites. You will own COI/COC traceability across autologous and allogeneic programs, ensuring compliant receipt, manufacturing, and pack-out of drug products.

You will drive real-time issue resolution, continuous improvement, and coordination with Quality, Production, and Logistics to sustain supply chain integrity for cell therapies