At Genmab, we are dedicated to building extra[not]ordinary® futures, together, by developing antibody products and groundbreaking, knock-your-socks-off KYSO antibody medicines® that change lives and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. We strive to create, champion and maintain a global workplace where individuals’ unique contributions are valued and drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our patients, care partners, families and employees.
Our people are compassionate, candid, and purposeful, and our business is innovative and rooted in science. We believe that being proudly authentic and determined to be our best is essential to fulfilling our purpose. Yes, our work is incredibly serious and impactful, but we have big ambitions, bring a ton of care to pursuing them, and have a lot of fun while doing so.
Does this inspire you and feel like a fit? Then we would love to have you join us!
The Role
As Senior Manager, External Warehousing & Logistics, you will be responsible for defining and executing Genmab’s global external warehousing strategy across Europe and Rest of World (ROW). You will oversee a network of external partners, ensuring compliant, efficient, and scalable operations that support Genmab’s growing portfolio.
This role combines strategic leadership with operational oversight, driving supplier performance, ensuring inventory integrity and SOX and GxP compliance, and enabling continuous improvement across the end-to-end warehousing and distribution landscape.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the global external warehousing strategy across Europe, US and ROW, ensuring scalability, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- Act as the primary point of contact for external warehousing partners and logistics suppliers, owning relationships and driving alignment across the network.
- Ensure alignment and efficiency of inbound and outbound logistics flows across global external warehouse providers.
- Lead implementation, qualification, and validation activities at external warehousing partners, including negotiation and management of contracts and service level agreements (SLAs).
- Own supplier management, including performance monitoring, KPI governance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage the warehousing budget, ensuring cost control, transparency, and alignment with financial targets.
- Ensure accurate and compliant inventory management across external warehouses, including reconciliation, cycle counting, and financial alignment.
- Ensure adherence to SOX and GxP requirements and internal controls related to inventory, warehousing and distribution processes.
- Drive process improvements and digitalization initiatives in collaboration with external partners to enhance efficiency and service quality.
- Ensure GxP compliance across the external warehousing and distribution network in close partnership with Quality Assurance.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Procurement, Quality, Finance, and Planning to align operations and mitigate supply chain risks.
- Ensure maintenance and optimal performance of logistics-related systems (e.g., SAP ERP), including enhancements, testing, and validation.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including significant exposure to external warehousing and logistics operations.
- Proven experience in defining and executing supply chain or warehousing strategies at a regional or global level.
- Strong expertise in inventory management, financial processes (incl. order-to-cash), and SOX/GxP compliance and internal controls.
- Demonstrated experience in supplier and contract management, including negotiation and performance governance.
- Experience managing budgets and driving cost optimization initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across functions and seniority levels.
- Experience working in a global, matrix organization.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken).
- Leadership experience (project and/or people management), with the ability to drive change and continuous improvement.
About You
You are genuinely passionate about our purpose
You bring precision and excellence to all that you do
You believe in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving
You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with a broad spectrum of backgrounds
You take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team
You can grapple with the unknown and be innovative
You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)
You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so!
Locations
Genmab maximizes the efficiency of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are crafted as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our powerful laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.
About Genmab
Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose to improve the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For 25 years, its hard-working, innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and harnessed translational, quantitative and data sciences, resulting in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, antibody-drug conjugates, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators and effector function-enhanced antibodies. By 2030, Genmab’s vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO®) antibody medicines.
Established in 1999, Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with international presence across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit Genmab.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
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Skills Required
- Master's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry
- Experience in defining and executing supply chain or warehousing strategies at a regional or global level
- Expertise in inventory management, financial processes, and SOX/GxP compliance
- Experience in supplier and contract management
- Experience managing budgets and cost optimization
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in a global, matrix organization
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Leadership experience
What We Do
We are an international biotech company committed to improving the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For more than 20 years, our passionate, innovative, and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and leveraged translational research and data sciences, which has resulted in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators, effector function enhanced antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates. To help develop and deliver novel antibody therapies to patients, we have formed 20+ strategic partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. By 2030, our vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO) antibody medicines. We are united by our core values: a passion for innovation, determination, integrity, and working as one team and respecting each other. When you work at Genmab you'll be part of a warm, fun, dynamic community seeking out and embracing the opportunity to build new and bold futures within a rapidly growing biotech company. Genmab is a place where you can be authentically you; you are empowered to innovate, build solutions, and execute; feel cared for and supported. In its totality, this makes working at Genmab an extra[not]ordinary experience. Established in 1999, we are headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S., and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit Genmab.com Disclaimer: http://bit.ly/GENDisclaimer
