Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Network Planning & Risk Management
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "Syndax Pharmaceuticals is looking for a Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Network Planning & Risk Management At Syndax, we are determined to realize a future in which people with cancer live longer and better than ever before. Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies."
- "The Role: Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing, the Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Network Planning & Risk Management will lead integrated supply planning, network strategy, inventory management, and supply risk management across Syndax’s clinical and commercial supply chains. Working across all modalities, this role will align demand forecasts, manufacturing plans, inventory strategies, production activities, and network capabilities with business objectives and patient needs. The role will partner closely with External Manufacturing, Clinical Supply Chain, Logistics, CMC, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Finance, and Clinical Operations to ensure supply reliability, cross-functional alignment, and execution against the supply plan."
- Then "Key Responsibilities:" list bullet points.
- Then "Desired Experience/Education and Personal Attributes:" list bullet points.
- Then "Location: Syndax’s corporate office is in New York, NY."
- Then "Syndax offers a total compensation and rewards package that is among the most competitive in the industry. Base pay is just one element of our package and is determined within a range based on several factors including market data, experience, qualifications, demonstrated skills, relevant education or training, travel requirements and internal equity. Our overall package also includes an equity offering, annual target bonuses, and an outstanding benefits program. The anticipated annualized salary range for this role is $270,000 - $290,000."
- Then "About Syndax:" description.
- Then EEO boilerplate (remove).
We need sections: About the role (maybe intro + The Role?), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe Desired Experience/Education and Personal Attributes?), Qualifications (maybe education?), Skills (maybe specific skills?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what content goes where.
We have location (NY) maybe part of About the role or separate? Not required.
We have compensation details: base pay range, equity offering, annual target bonuses, benefits program. That covers Pay and Benefits.
Schedule: Not mentioned (no info about work schedule, remote, etc.) So we should NOT create Schedule section.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to preserve all substantive info.
Let's extract:
About the role: Could combine the introductory paragraph and The Role description. Provide a concise paragraph.
Responsibilities: list bullet points from "Key Responsibilities:" (the long list). We'll need to preserve each bullet.
Requirements: maybe education and experience required? The "Desired Experience/Education and Personal Attributes:" includes both required and preferred. We could split into Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred) and Skills (specific skills). But we need to follow instruction: Use headings only when posting has real specific content. We can create sections for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills if we can delineate.
Let's parse Desired Experience/Education and Personal Attributes:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, operations, pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, or a related discipline required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 15+ years of progressive pharmaceutical or biotechnology supply-chain experience, including significant leadership of planning, forecasting, inventory, network strategy, production control, and supply risk management.
- Deep expertise in supply planning, demand planning, S&OP, C&OP, inventory management, network planning, capacity planning, and scenario analysis.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating structured supply risk management programs, including risk surveillance, scoring, mitigation, escalation, and governance.
- Experience leading cross-functional production control or supply execution forums and driving accountability for production, release, and material-flow commitments.
- Experience supporting clinical and commercial products within highly outsourced global supply chains.
- Experience with small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredient and oral solid dose supply chains is required; biologics experience is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success supporting commercial launches, market expansion, regulatory milestones, and lifecycle management.
- Experience working with global manufacturing networks and international contract development and manufacturing organizations across multiple regions and time zones.
- Demonstrated success designing and implementing planning processes, operating models, performance-management systems, and business-review structures.
- Experience selecting, implementing, or improving enterprise resource planning and supply-chain planning systems, analytics, and data governance.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification preferred.
- Strong analytical, financial, strategic-planning, facilitation, and structured problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent leadership, communication, executive presence, and cross-functional influence in a fast-paced, matrixed, and geographically dispersed organization.
- Strategic and pragmatic leader who drives execution, makes timely decisions, and builds sustainable planning and risk-management capabilities.
We can categorize:
Requirements (mandatory): Bachelor’s degree required; 15+ years experience; experience with small molecule API and oral solid dose supply chains required; maybe also "experience supporting clinical and commercial products within highly outsourced global supply chains" (maybe required). But the text says "Experience supporting clinical and commercial products within highly outsourced global supply chains." Not explicitly required but likely required. We'll keep as part of Requirements.
Qualifications (preferred): MBA or advanced degree preferred; biologics experience strongly preferred; Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred.
Skills: Strong analytical, financial, strategic-planning, facilitation, structured problem-solving capabilities; Excellent leadership, communication, executive presence, cross-functional influence; Strategic and pragmatic leader etc.
We could also include "Deep expertise in supply planning, demand planning, S&OP, C&OP, inventory management, network planning, capacity planning, and scenario analysis." as Skills.
We need to avoid duplication.
We'll produce sections:
About the role
with paragraph(s).
Responsibilities
with - each bullet.
Requirements
with - for mandatory items.
Qualifications
with - for preferred items.
Skills
with - for skill items.
Benefits
with - for equity offering, annual target bonuses, outstanding benefits program.
Pay
with containing salary range.
We should not include Schedule.
We also might include Location? Not required as a heading; could embed in About the role paragraph.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also remove "About Syndax:" description? That is about company, maybe could be part of About the role? But we already have About the role; we could include a brief about company in About the role or maybe not needed. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could incorporate company description into About the role paragraph.
We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the company description? It's substantive about the company. The posting includes "About Syndax:" paragraph. We should keep that info. Where to put? Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section "About the company". But we only have allowed headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No "About the company". So we must fit it somewhere. Perhaps we can include it in About the role section as additional paragraph.
Thus About the role will contain: introductory sentences about Syndax's mission, the role description, and maybe the About Syndax paragraph.
We must not repeat the job title as heading; fine.
Now we need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now produce HTML.
Let's craft About the role paragraph(s):
Paragraph 1: "Syndax Pharmaceuticals is looking for a Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Network Planning & Risk Management. At Syndax, we are determined to realize a future in which people with cancer live longer and better than ever before. Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies."
Paragraph 2: "Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing, the Senior Director will lead integrated supply planning, network strategy, inventory management, and supply risk management across Syndax’s clinical and commercial supply chains. Working across all modalities, this role will align demand forecasts, manufacturing plans, inventory strategies, production activities, and network capabilities with business objectives and patient needs. The role will partner closely with External Manufacturing, Clinical Supply Chain, Logistics, CMC, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Finance, and Clinical Operations to ensure supply reliability, cross-functional alignment, and execution against the supply plan."
Paragraph 3 (About Syndax): "Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative cancer therapies. Highlights of the Company’s pipeline include a menin inhibitor for R/R acute leukemia and a monoclonal antibody that blocks the CSF-1 receptor for chronic graft-versus-host disease. Fueled by our commitment to reimagining cancer care, Syndax is working to unlock the full potential of its pipeline and is conducting several clinical trials across the continuum of treatment. For more information, please visit www.syndax.com/ or follow the Company on X and LinkedIn."
We could combine into one or multiple
tags.
Now Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities.
Let's extract them exactly:
- Lead integrated Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) aligning demand, manufacturing capacity, inventory, financial plans, and business priorities.
- Own global supply planning across clinical and commercial programs for drug substance and drug product, translating development, regulatory, launch, and commercial requirements into actionable supply plans.
- Establish demand-planning processes that integrate clinical enrollment forecasts and finished goods requirements, commercial forecasts, market assumptions, and lifecycle activities.
- Lead demand and supply balancing across the network, identifying constraints, scenarios, trade-offs, and decisions required to protect patient supply.
- Develop long-range network and capacity strategies supporting portfolio growth, commercialization, geographic expansion, and supply resilience.
- Establish inventory and safety-stock strategies that balance service, supply risk, expiry exposure, cost, and working capital.
- Monitor inventory health, planning accuracy, capacity, and supply performance and drive timely corrective actions.
- Develop and maintain a robust supply risk management program covering internal and external risk surveillance, risk identification, assessment and scoring, mitigation planning, escalation, action tracking, and periodic review of residual risk.
- Maintain an integrated supply risk register and provide clear visibility to emerging risks, risk trends, mitigation effectiveness, decisions required, and potential impact to clinical and commercial supply.
- Lead scenario planning and business-continuity strategies addressing capacity constraints, demand variability, single-source dependencies, supplier performance, material availability, quality events, geopolitical exposure, and other network vulnerabilities.
- Partner with External Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Quality, CMC, and other functions to chair a weekly Production Control meeting that confirms alignment and drives execution of production activities, material availability, release priorities, and shipment and material flow against the approved supply plan.
- Escalate production, release, inventory, or material-flow constraints promptly, establish clear owners and recovery actions, and track commitments through resolution.
- Lead supply planning for product launches, new markets, major regulatory milestones, and lifecycle changes, including scenario planning and risk mitigation.
- Lead development and implementation of planning processes, systems, analytics, dashboards, master data, and performance measures that improve visibility and decision making.
- Communicate supply outlook, production performance, risks, scenarios, mitigation plans, and required decisions clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Build and develop a high-performing global supply chain network planning and risk management team as organizational needs grow.
- Travel domestically and
Requirements
with- for mandatory items.
Qualifications
with- for preferred items.
Skills
with- for skill items.
Benefits
with- for equity offering, annual target bonuses, outstanding benefits program.
Pay
withcontaining salary range. We should not include Schedule. We also might include Location? Not required as a heading; could embed in About the role paragraph. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must not include Job ID etc. We must remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also remove "About Syndax:" description? That is about company, maybe could be part of About the role? But we already have About the role; we could include a brief about company in About the role or maybe not needed. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could incorporate company description into About the role paragraph. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the company description? It's substantive about the company. The posting includes "About Syndax:" paragraph. We should keep that info. Where to put? Could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section "About the company". But we only have allowed headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No "About the company". So we must fit it somewhere. Perhaps we can include it in About the role section as additional paragraph. Thus About the role will contain: introductory sentences about Syndax's mission, the role description, and maybe the About Syndax paragraph. We must not repeat the job title as heading; fine. Now we need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now produce HTML. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s): Paragraph 1: "Syndax Pharmaceuticals is looking for a Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Network Planning & Risk Management. At Syndax, we are determined to realize a future in which people with cancer live longer and better than ever before. Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of cancer therapies." Paragraph 2: "Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing, the Senior Director will lead integrated supply planning, network strategy, inventory management, and supply risk management across Syndax’s clinical and commercial supply chains. Working across all modalities, this role will align demand forecasts, manufacturing plans, inventory strategies, production activities, and network capabilities with business objectives and patient needs. The role will partner closely with External Manufacturing, Clinical Supply Chain, Logistics, CMC, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Finance, and Clinical Operations to ensure supply reliability, cross-functional alignment, and execution against the supply plan." Paragraph 3 (About Syndax): "Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing innovative cancer therapies. Highlights of the Company’s pipeline include a menin inhibitor for R/R acute leukemia and a monoclonal antibody that blocks the CSF-1 receptor for chronic graft-versus-host disease. Fueled by our commitment to reimagining cancer care, Syndax is working to unlock the full potential of its pipeline and is conducting several clinical trials across the continuum of treatment. For more information, please visit www.syndax.com/ or follow the Company on X and LinkedIn." We could combine into one or multiple
tags. Now Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities. Let's extract them exactly: - Lead integrated Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) aligning demand, manufacturing capacity, inventory, financial plans, and business priorities. - Own global supply planning across clinical and commercial programs for drug substance and drug product, translating development, regulatory, launch, and commercial requirements into actionable supply plans. - Establish demand-planning processes that integrate clinical enrollment forecasts and finished goods requirements, commercial forecasts, market assumptions, and lifecycle activities. - Lead demand and supply balancing across the network, identifying constraints, scenarios, trade-offs, and decisions required to protect patient supply. - Develop long-range network and capacity strategies supporting portfolio growth, commercialization, geographic expansion, and supply resilience. - Establish inventory and safety-stock strategies that balance service, supply risk, expiry exposure, cost, and working capital. - Monitor inventory health, planning accuracy, capacity, and supply performance and drive timely corrective actions. - Develop and maintain a robust supply risk management program covering internal and external risk surveillance, risk identification, assessment and scoring, mitigation planning, escalation, action tracking, and periodic review of residual risk. - Maintain an integrated supply risk register and provide clear visibility to emerging risks, risk trends, mitigation effectiveness, decisions required, and potential impact to clinical and commercial supply. - Lead scenario planning and business-continuity strategies addressing capacity constraints, demand variability, single-source dependencies, supplier performance, material availability, quality events, geopolitical exposure, and other network vulnerabilities. - Partner with External Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Quality, CMC, and other functions to chair a weekly Production Control meeting that confirms alignment and drives execution of production activities, material availability, release priorities, and shipment and material flow against the approved supply plan. - Escalate production, release, inventory, or material-flow constraints promptly, establish clear owners and recovery actions, and track commitments through resolution. - Lead supply planning for product launches, new markets, major regulatory milestones, and lifecycle changes, including scenario planning and risk mitigation. - Lead development and implementation of planning processes, systems, analytics, dashboards, master data, and performance measures that improve visibility and decision making. - Communicate supply outlook, production performance, risks, scenarios, mitigation plans, and required decisions clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional teams. - Build and develop a high-performing global supply chain network planning and risk management team as organizational needs grow. - Travel domestically and
- for equity offering, annual target bonuses, outstanding benefits program.
- for skill items.
- for preferred items.