Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

We are the Clinical Trials Division (CTD): We Supply the Hope that Changes Lives - Global (REMOTE)
CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world ensuring the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time - a concept that we internally adopt as "There is a Patient Waiting." Our unique blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more!

Question - Could you be the right addition to our team?

Discover Impactful Work:

The Sr Demand Planner makes an impact by Independently leading the Design, Implement, Interpret and Review inventory management plan to forecast supply plan of study drugs to global and sophisticated clinical trials, using sound supply chain techniques. Ensuring the plans are robust and optimizes global and regional supply strategies to ensure continuity of patient supply in the most effective and efficient manner.

A Day in the Life:

• Informal leader within the team who looks to improve processes, tools, and resources for organization.
  
• Provides mentorship and guidance for new hires and less experienced planners and is viewed as a role model leader by peers.
  
• Provide input into User Requirement Specifications of Interactive Response Technology (IRT) medication management module and complete User Acceptance Testing if required.
  
• Review IRT strategy to ensure it supports the strategic supply plans and that IRT settings are adjusted to optimize the supply and demand.
  
• Partners with the Enterprise Project Manager, along with global and site project management teams and/or directly with the customer to inform and proactively share key client data necessary to facilitate an effective supply chain planning cycle.
  
• Ensure temperature excursion process is performed as required
  
• Establish and maintain financial forecasts and monthly billing processes for assigned complex client projects.
  
• To foster a sense of belonging and connection, remote employees are expected to keep their camera on and participate in video calls both internally and externally, as appropriate.
  

As Demonstrated By:
Project Management

• Understands the customer’s target market, segmentation, and value proposition. Identifies the client’s needs, distributes those needs, and collects feedback regularly to ensure efforts are meeting their expectation.
• Speaks and writes in a clear, concise, and organized way. Listens carefully to others to ensure understanding and effective communication. Effectively documents and communicates key findings so that the client or audience understands.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business/operations management preferred.
• High school diploma or equivalent required.

Experience

• 5 years of supply chain and/or planning experience managing global supply chain design and logistics management, preferably as they relate to clinical program design and execution without degree.
• 4 years experience accepted with advanced degree.
• Understanding of clinical supply requirements, phases of clinical development, and the factors that influence study designs preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Requires strong eye for business including the ability to understand the manufacturing process and how cost impacts the overall business.
• Requires enhanced PC knowledge and skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point) products.
• Requires interpersonal skills and the ability to lead and work in teams including client services, technical, planning, and financial expertise.
• Requires excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• APICS certification or equivalent preferred.

Benefits
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $92,900.00–$139,325.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
  
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
  
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
  
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
  
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
  

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards