About the role
Senior Clinical Trial Supplies Associate (remote) - Sponsor-dedicated; Poland/Ireland/UKSyneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Technologies Role:
Serve as business owner and subject matter expert for the N-SIDE forecasting suite and related clinical supply planning technologies.
Lead study builds, forecasting models, system configuration, and IRT integrations for new clinical studies.
Develop and deliver user training, documentation, and ongoing system support.
Partner with Clinical Supply planners to develop and optimize forecasting models and planning assumptions.
Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Technical Operations, IMSC, and IT to implement and enhance clinical supply technologies and system integrations.
Coordinate user requirements, testing, issue resolution, and implementation activities with internal stakeholders and technology vendors.
Identify opportunities to improve forecasting processes, reporting, automation, and data quality.
Support system governance, documentation, change management, and continuous process improvement.
For Assigned Programs (as needed, but not more than 50%):
Represent Clinical Supply Chain on cross-functional study teams.
Develop and maintain clinical supply forecasts, inventory plans, and supply strategies for assigned studies.
Coordinate supply planning activities with Clinical Operations, IMSC, Technical Operations, Procurement, and external vendors.
Manage co-medication sourcing, budgets, and inventory, as applicable.
Support IRT strategy, user acceptance testing, and ongoing supply management.
Lead clinical supply meetings and communicate supply risks, mitigation plans, and study status to stakeholders.
Monitor inventory, expiry, study timelines, and key supply metrics to ensure uninterrupted clinical supply.
Maintain study documentation and escalate significant supply risks or timeline concerns as appropriate.
Facilitate discussions and decisions on label and packaging design, as needed.
For Department:
Develop and maintain SOPs, work instructions, and training materials.
Lead or support departmental process improvement and technology initiatives.
Share best practices and promote cross-functional collaboration.
Represent Global Clinical Supply Chain on internal and external initiatives, as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, supply chain, business, or related discipline.
4+ years of experience in clinical supply chain or pharmaceutical development.
2+ years of hands-on experience with clinical supply forecasting, inventory planning, or simulation tools.
Experience with N-SIDE, IRT systems, or comparable clinical supply technologies.
Experience supporting system implementations, integrations, user acceptance testing, and change management.
Understanding of global clinical trials, clinical supply processes, cGMP, and GCP.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data analysis.
Strong project management, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
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