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Position Summary

The Specialist, Global Cell Therapy Logistics & Warehousing - AMER belongs to the Global Cell Therapy Logistics, Warehousing & Trade organization, which is part of Global Cell Therapy Supply Chain. The role is responsible for executing operational tasks around transportation and storage of patient materials, such as, but not limited to shipment booking, transportation management, storage transactions, inventory management, freight auditing and payment, and supplier management. The scope of the role involves clinical trial and the commercial setting predominantly in North America and Europe. The material scope encompasses fresh apheresis material, cryopreserved apheresis material and cryopreserved finished goods.

The role carries out day-to-day logistics and warehousing tasks in close collaboration with internal partners, stakeholders and external service providers. The main internal partners are Supply Chain, Patient Operations, and Manufacturing Operations. Key external collaborators are specialty courier companies, shipping system providers, logistics visibility platforms, cryopreservation hubs and distribution hubs.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute daily and weekly logistics and warehousing activities in liaison with the rest of the team
• Run operations with logistics suppliers and continuously improve ways of working and performance
• Support logistics and warehousing readiness for country launches and new manufacturing plant go lives
• Support weekly and monthly operations and business review meetings internally and externally
• Facilitate inventory movements, destructions and returns and maintain accurate IT system records
• Reconcile inventory at 3PL locations periodically and support annual inventory counts
• Provide inputs to new and updated logistics procedures and support correctness of supplier procedures
• Support implementation of change controls, procedural changes and improvement initiatives
• Monitor and control correct shipment execution and adherence to planned milestones and service levels
• Support supplier selection and implementation projects and initiatives
• Execute transport requests and shipping system orders within and across regions
• Issue shipping documents and support creation and review of import and export documents
• Work closely with manufacturing plants and hubs for effective execution of shipping and receiving tasks
• Investigate discrepancies including root cause analysis, CAPA provision and effectiveness checks
• Report logistics performance within standard KPI and metrics framework and on ad hoc basis
• Support logistics invoice auditing, reconciliation and payment including purchase order management

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics management or equivalent
• Minimum two years of experience in logistics, warehousing and distribution in the pharma industry
• Experience in cell and gene industry preferred
• Experience with complex and highly regulated pharma transportation and storage models
• Good knowledge of GDP regulations, transport regulations and dangerous goods regulations
• Skilled in planning tasks, organizing work and communicating problem statements and solution proposals
• Highly self-motivated individual, with demonstrated ability to work independently
• Ability to work in a fast-changing environment and in serving as change agent
• Flexibility in responding to change or business needs

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With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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