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Associate Director, Supply Chain Planning & Materials Management

Bedford, MA

Our Opportunity…

We’re looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, and experienced Supply Chain professional to contribute to building Obsidian’s Upstream Supply Chain capabilities. You’ll be responsible for contributing to and executing our Supply Chain strategies for planning and sourcing, and ensuring associated compliance requirements are met. As part of a highly collaborative team, you’ll work closely with Product Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Finance, Regulatory Affairs and our Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) to achieve phase appropriate Best in Class Supply Chain processes and tools. You'll play a vital role in our Technical Operations team to advance Obsidian’s vision by translating innovative science into medical breakthroughs for patients, starting with our lead program OBX-115, a novel engineered tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy.

This is a unique opportunity to be a contributor in a well-funded clinical company with blue chip investors, field-leading advisors, best-in-class partners, and an experienced team. You'll help us build a dynamic, innovative, passionate, collaborative, and successful organization focused on delivering transformative therapies in areas of greatest clinical need.

This position is based in our Bedford, MA site with a hybrid work schedule (must be within driving distance of Bedford).

You Will…

• Define and implement Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Inventory Management, and other key supply chain business practices and systems to ensure alignment and deliver exceptional service and transparency to key internal and external partners including Manufacturing, Quality, Clinical, Finance, and CDMOs. 
• Mature and evolve global Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• Ensure availability of production materials through strategic supplier agreements and relationships, proactive risk management, and rigorous contract management and administration. 
• Oversee third party warehouse partner to ensure proper compliance, Supply continuity and material availability across the network.
• Maintain accurate Bill of Materials (BOM) across our different manufacturing process and ensure appropriate specifications are in place.
• Support label creation and approval process and manage version control.
• Drive continuous improvement and Operational Excellence culture through self-detecting and self-correcting processes and systems. 
• Support Raw Material risk assessments for all raw material and consumables used in OBX-115 manufacturing process as part of our Pivotal Readiness effort and perform periodic refresh of assumptions.
• Design and implement a Supplier management program including CDMO Supply Chain oversight.
• Develop supply strategies to maximize supply efficiency and minimize waste.
• Ensure overall cGMP compliance in collaboration with the Quality organization. 
• Identify potential supply risks and develop risk mitigation plans as necessary.
• Define and maintain a set of KPIs as part of a monthly Supply Chain scorecard.
• Lead a team of one Supply Chain Manager with opportunity for expansion as the company grows.

You Bring…

Core Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Life Sciences, Supply Chain Management, or related discipline; or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in logistics, planning, or supply chain in a pharmaceutical or biotech company.

• Minimum of 3 years in fast paced cGMP environments.
• Demonstrated experience with inventory management, material requirement planning, CDMO oversight
• A highly collaborative working style - experience building healthy, productive, and high trust relationships within your function and with direct stakeholders, inviting and sharing ideas and feedback, and productively challenging own and others’ assumptions to generate new ideas and facilitate better outcomes. 
• Self-motivation and a proven ability to work with general direction, exercise good judgement, and seek the information and support you need to meet objectives and timelines. 
• A desire and ability to work in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment. Flexibility, ability to adapt to changes and priorities to fulfill our mission. 
• Strong record-keeping and organizational skills, including an ability to manage multiple responsibilities in parallel. 
• Strong attention to detail.
• Successful track record of   managing complex high consequence challenges.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, etc).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Curiosity and a track record of self-directed learning.
• Ability to travel to partner sites or meetings as required (estimated up to 15%).

Bonus Qualifications

• Prior experience with a Cell Therapy preferably in a clinical stage environment.
• Prior experience supporting clinical Supply Chain program.

Please no agency solicitation at this time. We appreciate your respect of this request.

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