VP Supply Chain

About the Role

The Vice President of Supply Chain is responsible for designing, leading, and optimizing the end-to-end supply chain for a radiopharmaceutical company operating under stringent regulatory, time, and safety constraints. This role oversees the procurement, manufacturing logistics, warehousing, and distribution of products with short half-lives, ensuring on-time delivery of life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic agents to patients and clinical sites.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Leadership
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive supply chain strategy aligned with commercial, clinical, and manufacturing objectives.
  • Develop and execute procurement and sourcing strategies that support manufacturing continuity, commercial objectives, cost reduction, supplier resilience, and long-term business needs.
  • Build, mentor, and lead a cross-functional team spanning procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, planning, warehousing, logistics, and distribution.
  • Serve as a member of the senior operations leadership team, contributing to enterprise-wide decision-making.
• Procurement & Supplier Management
  • Develop and lead procurement strategies for direct materials, indirect materials, services, logistics providers, contract manufacturers, and other critical external partners.
  • Negotiate and manage long-term supplier agreements that improve cost, service, quality, supply continuity, and risk mitigation.
  • Identify, qualify, and develop supplier options to reduce single-source exposure and strengthen business continuity.
  • Partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, and Commercial teams to align sourcing decisions with production requirements, quality expectations, regulatory obligations, and business priorities.
  • Drive cost reduction, working capital improvement, supplier performance, and procurement process discipline without compromising quality, safety, or compliance.
  • Establish supplier performance measures, business reviews, escalation processes, and accountability mechanisms for critical suppliers and service providers.
• Isotope & Raw Material Supply
  • Work cross-functionally and intracompany to secure isotope and critical raw material supply, de-risk single-source dependencies, support long-term sourcing strategies, and mitigate global supply disruptions.
  • Manage relationships with reactor/cyclotron suppliers, generators, and precursor manufacturers.
  • Lead or partner on supplier negotiations, capacity commitments, long-term agreements, and contingency plans for isotope, precursor, generator, and other critical supply needs.
  • Establish contingency and business continuity plans for isotope shortages.
• Warehousing, Distribution, Planning & Compliance
  • Oversee warehousing operations for radioactive materials, precursors, components, and finished products, ensuring proper segregation, shielding, and storage controls.
  • Establish and maintain licensed radioactive material storage areas in compliance with NRC and state radiation safety requirements.
  • Implement inventory accuracy, cycle counting, lot/serial traceability, and decay-based stock rotation appropriate to short-half-life products.
  • Manage temperature-controlled and hazardous-material storage, including monitoring, alarming, and qualification of storage environments.
  • Optimize warehouse layout, capacity, and workflows to support rapid release and dispatch of time-critical product.
  • Oversee time-critical, temperature- and radiation-controlled distribution networks to deliver short-half-life products within tight delivery windows.
  • Design and manage the distribution strategy, including 3PL partners, specialized couriers, and last-mile delivery for radioactive materials.
  • Ensure compliance with DOT, IATA, NRC, DEA, and international transport regulations for radioactive and controlled-substance shipments.
  • Oversee trade compliance for import/export activities, including customs, classification, licensing, and adherence to applicable global trade regulations.
  • Maintain DEA registration, recordkeeping, and chain-of-custody requirements for the handling and distribution of controlled substances.
  • Maintain rigorous chain-of-custody, packaging, labeling, and radiation safety standards throughout transport.
  • Drive distribution performance through routing optimization, carrier management, and real-time shipment tracking.
  • Ensure logistics performance achieves 100% on-time-in-full (OTIF) delivery.
  • Lead demand planning, S&OP, and inventory management tailored to decay-sensitive products.
  • Design, execute, maintain, and audit master data, bills of materials, routings, supplier data, lead times, minimum order quantities, safety stock parameters, and work order management.
  • Implement systems and KPIs to drive on-time-in-full performance, waste reduction, and forecast accuracy.
  • Coordinate closely with manufacturing to synchronize production scheduling with warehousing and delivery commitments.
  • Ensure supply chain, warehousing, and distribution operations meet cGMP, FDA, NRC, and applicable state and international regulatory requirements.
  • Partner with Quality and Regulatory Affairs on supplier qualification, audits, and CAPA.
  • Maintain rigorous chain-of-custody and radiation safety standards across all storage and transport activities.
• Budget & Contract Management
  • Own the supply chain, procurement, warehousing, and distribution budget; execute supply chain and procurement strategies to deliver cost savings, working capital improvement, supply continuity, and service performance without compromising quality or compliance.
  • Negotiate and manage contracts with suppliers, contract manufacturers, carriers, warehouse operators, 3PL partners, and other critical service providers.
  • Establish procurement governance, supplier performance management, and savings tracking processes to ensure accountability, transparency, and measurable business impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, life sciences, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 18+ years of relevant supply chain experience, including senior-level procurement, sourcing, supplier management, planning, warehousing, logistics, and distribution experience, with 10 or more years in a senior leadership role.
• Direct experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, nuclear medicine, or radiopharmaceutical industries.
• Demonstrated experience leading procurement or strategic sourcing functions, including supplier negotiations, long-term contracting, cost reduction, supplier risk management, and supply continuity.
• Demonstrated expertise managing procurement, warehousing, distribution, and time-sensitive, regulated, or cold-chain/hazardous-material logistics.
• Track record of building resilient, diversified supply networks and distribution operations in constrained markets preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with short-half-life or decay-sensitive product distribution.
• Familiarity with isotope production (reactor-based and cyclotron) supply ecosystems.
• Experience building procurement strategies in constrained or single-source supply markets.
• Experience leading supplier diversification, supplier development, and long-term supply agreements for critical materials, services, or outsourced manufacturing partners.

Working Conditions

• Willingness to work in a plant producing radioactive materials and requiring all employees to participate in safety programs designed to minimize potential and/or actual exposure levels.
• Responsibilities include the ability to lift up to 70 pounds, kneeling, crouching, twisting the upper body, walking, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, reaching.
• Must be able to physically negotiate stairs and evacuation ladders with or without accommodation, wear and operate safety equipment, enter vessels, and inspect equipment.
• Material handling devices (e.g., hand truck, fork truck, and conveyors) are used when possible; however, use of proper lifting and movement techniques is necessary to prevent injury.
• Must be willing to wear a variety of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and hearing protection as needed.
• May be required to sit or stand for long periods of 8+ hours a day while performing duties.
• Must possess good hand-eye coordination; close attention to detail is required.
• Must be able to work indoors and outdoors with exposure to mechanical/moving parts, hazards including corrosive, flammable and toxic material, dust, dirt, odors, and irritants.
• Willingness to complete safety training within allotted timeframes, and work in a team-based environment.
• Must be able to work outside of regular work hours, including off shift, weekend, and holiday work as business needs require.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% as required by business needs.