The Director of Supply Chain is responsible for building, implementing, and managing the commercial supply chain for Scholar Rock in Japan. The role will oversee daily operations relating to artwork, secondary packaging and distribution activities and will work closely with Scholar Rock colleagues globally, primarily in the US and Ireland. The position requires strong leadership, problem-solving, and analytical skills to optimize operational efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure products are reliably and compliantly supplied across Japan.
Position Responsibilities:
- Manage the end-to-end supply chain operations: Establish strategies and oversee launch execution.
- Drive strategic capabilities: Establish strong capabilities to support current and future assets resulting from the Scholar Rock pipeline.
- Foster cross-departmental collaboration: Work closely with departments such as planning, manufacturing, logistics, regulatory, finance, IT and commercial teams to ensure supply objectives align with broader business priorities.
- Establish and strengthen external partnerships: Build and sustain productive relationships with external packaging contract manufacturers (CMOs) ensuring mutual benefits in terms of efficiency and cost savings.
- Negotiate and secure strategic contracts: Support contract negotiations with packaging CMO providers to secure favorable terms and maintain high-quality service delivery.
- Lead New Product Introduction execution with external partners for Japanese market
- Packaging qualification: Oversight of product packaging qualification and validations activities to ensure compliance with regulations.
- Coordinate logistics operations with colleagues and partners on the importation of drug product, and the transfer of finished goods to Wholesalers.
- Continuous Improvement: Support continuous performance assessment and utilization of KPIs of CMO partners regarding compliance, pricing, service and capacity while maintaining business review meetings.
- Risk mitigation: Design, implement and monitor supply operations risk mitigation strategies.
- Supply System readiness: Partner with IT to implement systems to support supply chain operations in compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Materials Management: Oversee purchase order/invoice management and material management within the Scholar Rock ERP system for Japan.
- Champion budgeting & cost control: Support management of the supply chain operations budget, monitor expenses, and actively identify opportunities for cost reduction while maintaining high service quality standards.
- Conduct strategic cost-benefit analysis: Support in-depth analysis of supply chain operations to uncover potential savings in operational efficiency.
- Drive timely product supply: Ensure that the inventory supply runs smoothly, meeting product delivery timelines and customer expectations.
- Ensure customer satisfaction: Guarantee timely and accurate product deliveries while maintaining service quality, accuracy, and attention to customer needs.
- Resolve supply operations issues: Address and resolve product supply issues related to packaging operations or operational challenges to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and service excellence.
- Be a proactive member of the supply chain and Japanese teams to drive commercial success.
- Collaborate closely with global execution teams (IT/Systems, Finance) to ensure cross functional alignment.
- Partner with quality and regulatory teams to ensure compliance with global regulations while maintaining readiness for inspections and audits for artwork, packaging, and distribution operations.
Strategic Leadership
External Partner Relationship Management
Supply Chain Systems
Budgeting, Cost Control & Financial Oversight
Delivery & Customer Satisfaction
Organizational & Cross Functional Leadership
Candidate Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, chemistry, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience in Biopharma industry, with a minimum of 10 years at Associate Director level or above.
- Experience in start-up/ rare disease products is a plus.
- Commercial product launch experience including artwork, packaging operations and transportation/distribution.
- Strong strategic planning skills with a strong interest in developing team and individuals.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact with internal teams, external partners, and regulatory bodies.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively.
- Good level of spoken and written English.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, chemistry, or related field
- Minimum 10 years experience in biopharma at Associate Director level or above
- Commercial product launch experience including artwork, packaging operations, and transportation/distribution
- Experience managing end-to-end supply chain operations and launch execution
- Experience building and managing relationships with packaging CMOs and negotiating contracts
- Packaging qualification and validation oversight to ensure regulatory compliance
- Experience coordinating importation logistics and transfer of finished goods to wholesalers
- Experience with ERP systems for purchase order/invoice and materials management
- Experience partnering with IT to implement supply chain systems in compliance with regulations
- Budgeting, cost control and conducting cost-benefit analyses for supply chain operations
- Ability to design and implement supply operations risk mitigation strategies and KPIs
- Proven leadership, strategic planning, team development and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, and data-driven decision making
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work with internal teams and regulatory bodies
- Good level of spoken and written English
- Experience in start-up or rare disease products
What We Do
Scholar Rock is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and delivers life-changing therapies for people with serious diseases that have high unmet need. As a global leader in the biology of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) superfamily of cell proteins and named for the visual resemblance of a scholar rock to protein structures, the clinical-stage company is focused on advancing innovative treatments where protein growth factors are fundamental. Over the past decade, the company has created a pipeline with the potential to advance the standard of care for neuromuscular disease, cardiometabolic disorders, cancer, and other conditions where growth factor-targeted drugs can play a transformational role. Scholar Rock is the only company to show clinical proof of concept for a muscle-targeted treatment in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This commitment to unlocking fundamentally different therapeutic approaches is powered by broad application of a proprietary platform, which has developed novel monoclonal antibodies to modulate protein growth factors with extraordinary selectivity. By harnessing cutting-edge science in disease spaces that are historically under-addressed through traditional therapies, Scholar Rock works every day to create new possibilities for patients. Learn more about the company’s approach at ScholarRock.com and follow @ScholarRock and on LinkedIn. For additional information on our guidelines, please visit https://scholarrock.com/community-guidelines/ For more information on how Scholar Rock collects, uses, and shares personal information, please visit: https://scholarrock.com/privacy-policy
