POSITION SUMMARY:

The Distribution & Trade Operations, Associate Director is responsible for overall day-to-day distribution management. Maintain overall plan and strategy for ensuring timely inventory replenishment required to support commercial demand. This position requires strong organizational skills, analytical, critical thinking, and attention to detail. The Distribution & Trade Operations, Associate Director will report directly to the Sr. Director of Patient Services and Distribution. There is opportunity for advancement in this position. Salary range $159,120 to $187,200

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build, own and manage the inventory activities.
• Develop and implement a strategy to manage inventory to target levels.
• Maintain/adjust resources to drive the most optimized system suggested by supply plan.
• Participate in the development, revision and accuracy of production plans. Investigate and resolve inventory discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Determine key Planning and Forecasting KPIs, track KPI progress and report KPI results for all vendors.
• Monitor inventory, generate and communicate reports for quantity, lot status, expiration dates to all functional stakeholders.
• Routinely monitor, assess, validate to ensure accuracy data relating to inventory from all vendors.
• Understand the end-to-end supply chain, capacities lead times & bottlenecks to ensure an efficient plan.
• Communicate with vendors regarding specs, prioritization, shipping discrepancies, etc.
• Identify critical insights about our business and vendors to better manage the business forecast inventory and channel vendor performance.
• Ability to design and create meaningful data visualizations to report and communicate insights to key stakeholders with different levels of detail that are designed for executives and direct managers of channel partners.
• Collaborates effectively with Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls, Patient Services, National Account Directors, Marketing, Business Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Legal to best manage inventory, vendors and distributors.
• Manage invoices for all vendors (3PL, Specialty Distributors, and Specialty Pharmacy).

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• 2 -4 years of experience working in Distribution and Trade within a pharmaceutical or biotech company.
• Established working relationships with Trade and SP customers
• Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree a plus.
• Strong organization and analytical skills with the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy data and communicate summaries to a variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrates strong judgment, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills
• Strategic planning, establishing and meeting timelines, and project management skills
• Budget management experience or related experience
• Demonstrated collaboration experience working cross-functionally as a team to achieve common objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to be detail oriented and able to manage multiple projects at a time.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk; sit; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• WORK ENVIRONMENT: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Up to 50% travel may be required (e.g., business meetings, conferences, key customer engagement, market research, vendor meetings, etc.).

Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.