DescriptionROLE PURPOSE
The Senior Manager, Global E2E Product Supply Planning & RCCP serves primarily as the End-to-End Product Supply Leader for assigned highly complex products and portfolio segments. Approximately 70% of the role is dedicated to developing, governing, and executing integrated product supply strategies and plans across Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods. The role orchestrates internal manufacturing sites, CMOs/CDMOs, distribution partners, regions, and markets to protect patient supply and balance service, inventory, cost, capacity, and risk outcomes
Approximately 30% of the role is dedicated to developing, implementing, governing, training, and continuously improving Rough-Cut Capacity Planning within the 0-36 month Integrated Business Planning horizon. The role partners closely with Network Capacity Planning to translate product-level requirements into decision-ready capacity insights. Network Capacity Planning retains ownership of network capacity plans and longer-range capacity strategy
ROLE ALLOCATION AND OPERATING MODEL
- E2E Product Supply Planning leadership for highly complex assigned products or portfolio segments
- RCCP process ownership and capability enablement across the 0-36 month IBP horizon.
- The percentage allocation describes the expected emphasis of the role and may flex temporarily based on launches, disruptions, annual planning cycles, or RCCP deployment milestones.
- The role is an expert individual contributor and operates through shared accountability and influence rather than direct authority.
E2E PRODUCT SUPPLY PLANNING ACCOUNTABILITIES
Product Supply Strategy and Integrated Planning
- Serve as the E2E Product Supply Leader for assigned highly complex products across launch, growth, maturity, and sunset stages.
- Develop and govern credible global supply strategies and executable plans across Drug Substance, Drug Product, and Finished Goods.
- Integrate demand, supply, inventory, capacity, quality, regulatory, financial, lifecycle, and market considerations into an aligned course of action.
- Maintain clear planning assumptions, decision rights, scenarios, risks, actions, and governance pathways.
- Ensure approved decisions and changing business conditions are reflected accurately in SAP IBP and related planning outputs.
Product Supply Performance and Inventory
- Drive shared accountability for product availability, customer service, inventory health, supply continuity, excess and obsolete inventory, and plan execution.
- Develop inventory strategies and recommend positioning, targets, deployment, and risk-protection actions across internal sites, CMOs/CDMOs, distribution centers, and markets.
- Monitor performance, identify root causes and emerging trends, and coordinate corrective or preventive actions with accountable partners.
- Balance patient supply, service, inventory, working capital, cost, resilience, and execution feasibility when forming recommendations.
Risk, Scenarios, and Decisions
- Anticipate systemic, emerging, and second-order supply risks across interconnected product and network dependencies.
- Lead complex scenario planning, contingency evaluation, supply prioritization, and trade-off analysis.
- Synthesize incomplete or conflicting information into clear options, implications, recommendations, and decision timing.
- Make product-level planning decisions within established governance and escalate enterprise-level constraints or unresolved trade-offs.
- Lead follow-through on approved mitigation plans, accountabilities, milestones, and outcomes.
Network and Stakeholder Orchestration
- Orchestrate planning and execution across internal manufacturing sites, CMOs/CDMOs, Network Planning, Network Capacity Planning, Regional Supply Chain Planning, Quality, Regulatory, Logistics, Finance, and Commercial partners.
- Create alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities without relying on direct authority.
- Represent Global E2E Product Supply Planning in Supply Review, S&OP/IBP, PSCO, VST, launch, lifecycle, and other governance forums, as applicable.
- Translate product strategy and market requirements into clear supply implications and coordinated cross-functional actions.
Communication, Change, and VUCA Leadership
- Distill complex evidence into concise executive narratives, clear choices, and decision-ready recommendations.
- Tailor communication for executive, technical, operational, regional, market, and external-partner audiences.
- Lead product-supply changes by clarifying the case for change, stakeholder impacts, readiness, resistance, communications, adoption, and reinforcement.
- Create direction without false certainty and help stakeholders navigate volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
- Communicate difficult decisions, trade-offs, and uncertainty with transparency, presence, empathy, and precision.
RCCP ACCOUNTABILITIES
RCCP Process Development and Governance
- Own the design, implementation, governance, sustainment, and continuous improvement of RCCP across the 0-36 month IBP horizon.
- Define RCCP standards, methods, assumptions, capacity measures, time buckets, tolerance thresholds, scenarios, roles, decision rights, and escalation pathways.
- Maintain RCCP playbooks, process maps, calendars, templates, controls, standard work, and maturity roadmap.
- Integrate RCCP inputs, scenarios, risks, and actions into Supply Review, S&OP/IBP, AOP, LRP, portfolio, and product governance cycles.
- Partnership with Network Capacity Planning
- Maintain a strong operating partnership with Network Capacity Planning and align product-level requirements with network-level capacity assumptions and plans.
- Translate product demand, supply, inventory, launch, lifecycle, and risk assumptions into aggregate capacity requirements.
- Jointly develop scenarios to identify emerging constraints, capacity opportunities, timing gaps, and mitigation options within the IBP horizon.
- Clarify ownership and handoffs between Product Supply Planning and Network Capacity Planning to prevent gaps, duplication, or conflicting assumptions.
- Preserve Network Capacity Planning ownership of network capacity plans and longer-range capacity strategy.
RCCP Systems, Data, Analytics, and AI
- Own business-process and functional requirements for RCCP capabilities in SAP IBP and supporting solutions.
- Partner with Digital, Data, Technology, and planning teams on design, configuration, testing, validation, deployment, releases, and enhancements.
- Define required capacity master data, resource structures, planning parameters, calculations, workflows, reports, alerts, and scenario outputs.
- Establish governance for data quality, model integrity, assumptions, traceability, and user access.
- Use analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve scenario development and decision support while applying appropriate validation, confidentiality, governance, and human judgment.
RCCP Training, Change Management, and Adoption
- Develop and deliver role-based RCCP training, practical exercises, job aids, facilitator materials, and reference guides.
- Establish onboarding, refresher learning, proficiency expectations, coaching, and an RCCP community of practice.
- Lead the people side of RCCP implementation by building sponsorship, assessing readiness and stakeholder impact, anticipating resistance, and reinforcing adoption.
- Measure process adoption and capability maturity and adjust training, communication, and deployment approaches based on feedback and performance.
DECISION AUTHORITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Own product-level supply planning decisions within agreed governance and lead recommendations for complex strategic trade-offs.
- Recommend inventory positioning, deployment, supply prioritization, sourcing, contingencies, and lifecycle actions for assigned products.
- Own RCCP process standards, methodologies, governance, business requirements, training standards, adoption measures, and improvement roadmap.
- Lead RCCP scenario framing and recommend actions within the 0-36 month IBP horizon.
- Escalate material capacity constraints, cross-product trade-offs, unresolved assumption conflicts, and decisions outside delegated authority.
- Do not own network capacity plans, capital strategy, manufacturing footprint strategy, or longer-range network capacity strategy.
KEY INTERFACES
Primary RCCP Partnership
- Network Capacity Planning
- Manufacturing Operations
Internal
- Demand Planning and Regional Supply Chain Planning
- Network Planning, Manufacturing Operations, Site Planning, and Technical Operations
- Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Procurement, Logistics, Finance, and Commercial
- Portfolio, Launch, Product Strategy, Supply Review, S&OP/IBP, AOP, LRP, PSCO, and VST teams
- Digital, Data, Technology, Analytics, Master Data, and SAP IBP teams
External
- Contract Manufacturing Organizations and Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations
- Logistics service providers and strategic supply partners
- Technology and implementation partners, as applicable
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND BEHAVIORS
- Knowledge
- Advanced E2E product supply planning knowledge across Drug Substance, Drug Product, Finished Goods, inventory, capacity, distribution, lifecycle strategy, and external supply.
- Deep understanding of complex biopharmaceutical networks, constraints, resilience, and enterprise trade-offs.
- Advanced understanding of RCCP, aggregate capacity planning, IBP, S&OP, AOP, LRP, and the relationship between product supply plans and network capacity plans.
- Knowledge of process design, governance, system implementation, data structures, change management, training, analytics, and responsible AI use.
Skills
- Frames ambiguous problems and designs complex scenarios involving interacting constraints and uncertain assumptions.
- Synthesizes large or conflicting datasets into strategic choices and executive recommendations.
- Influences senior stakeholders and facilitates difficult trade-offs without direct authority.
- Designs scalable RCCP business processes, governance, standards, and system requirements.
- Leads organizational change, builds sponsorship, anticipates resistance, and reinforces sustained adoption.
- Designs and delivers effective training, facilitation, coaching, and capability-building experiences.
Behaviors
- Demonstrates enterprise mindset and prioritizes patient and business outcomes over local optimization.
- Shows decision courage and transparent communication in ambiguous, high-impact situations.
- Creates calm, clarity, and alignment during disruption or sustained uncertainty.
- Adapts successfully in a VUCA environment and helps others navigate change.
- Challenges assumptions constructively and combines standardization with sound business judgment.
- Models learning agility, digital curiosity, collaboration, accountability, and ethical use of data and AI.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Biotechnology, Operations Management, Life Sciences, Business, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in product supply planning, supply planning, capacity planning, operations planning, IBP, or a related supply chain discipline within bi