Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain

Nearly 37 million Americans are currently affected by Chronic Kidney Disease. 37 million.

At Akebia we take that number very seriously and every day we come to work, with the purpose of bettering the lives of each person impacted by kidney disease and the renal community that serves them.
Our tenacious, passionate employees' challenge the status quo and work to develop unique therapeutics that have the potential to set new standards of care for people living with kidney disease.

This is life-changing work, and we are all in, are you?

The Supply Chain Manager will be responsible for shipment planning and coordination between carriers and suppliers to ensure uninterrupted drug supply across the entire network. The Senior Specialist / Manager will also do inventory movements in relevant systems and manage or support quality events while working very closely with Technical Operations, third-party suppliers, Quality Assurance, Procurement and Regulatory teams.

Essential Functions and Duties

• Coordinate import/export and domestic shipment planning and execution for key raw materials, API, drug product and finished product across the product lifecycle for both clinical and commercial products.
• Maintain shipment tracking, documentation and support reporting logistics operations.
• Responsible for inventory movement, reconciliation and reporting in Akebia's ERP system.
• Own and manage deviations, change controls and support updating SOP's, WI's and other GMP documents.
• Use Serialization system to ensure compliance with DSCSA.
• Support ERP and Quality systems on a regular basis; test, improve and maintain master data as needed. Perform timely transactions to ensure system inventory is up to date.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to establish logistics requirements, shipment schedules and material status across the supply chain. Inform key stakeholders of status, issues, problems, and propose solutions.
• Generate purchase orders for manufacturing related activities. Track financial adherence to budget relative transportation and warehouse spend.
• Foster effective cross-functional teamwork and drive plan execution. Proactively track critical path activities, anticipate risks, support creating contingency plans to ensure uninterrupted production and on-time delivery.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 3-5 years supply chain experience, with a focus on logistics
• Experience with managing quality events

Preferred Qualifications:

• ERP experience
• Serialization experience
• 3-5 years logistics experience.
• Import/Export Shipping Experience
• Familiarity with U.S. Custom/FDA/USDA requirements for US imports of pharmaceuticals and international regulations for international shipments

Travel Requirements:

• Travel domestically and internationally: 5%

Compensation:

Targeted Base: 123,165 - 152,145*

*Base Compensation for this role will depend on a number of factors including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Base pay is only one component of the company's total rewards package, all regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or the incentive compensation program (if applicable), as well as equity. Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, etc.

Are you an Akebian?

An Akebian is curious, empathetic, and values making connections to people and ideas. Akebian's aren't afraid of diving in and owning a process or a problem, because we all want to deliver a great solution. Akebian's believe that we are better together because we are all working toward a common purpose - to better the life of each person impacted by kidney disease. Want to learn more about what it means to be an Akebian? Visit our website: www.akebia.com

Akebia is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all job applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.