Full-Time
Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Technical Lead
Kymber Consulting Group
Compensation Overview
$150k - $185k/yr
+ Incentive Plans + Referral Bonuses
No H1B Sponsorship
Falls Church, VA, USA
Hybrid
Three days on-site per week required.
US Citizenship, US Top Secret Clearance Required
Master's, MBA, PharmD
Category
 Operations & Logistics (1) |
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Required Skills
Machine Learning
Requirements
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education-accredited program.
- A minimum of eight years of professional experience in pharmaceutical or medical supply chain management, including at least three years supporting Department of Defense or federal health agencies.
- Demonstrated expertise in supply chain risk management, pharmaceutical sourcing, and drug shortage analysis.
- Working knowledge of federal pharmaceutical regulatory processes and serialization and track-and-trace requirements.
- Experience with federal interagency coordination and executive-level briefings.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief senior government stakeholders.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Advise senior government leaders on medical supply chain vulnerabilities and strategies to strengthen resilience and readiness.
- Translate legislation, executive orders, and national strategy on secure supply chains into program goals, issue papers, and executive briefing materials.
- Identify and map vulnerabilities in global active pharmaceutical ingredient, key starting material, and finished dosage form supply lines.
- Monitor global drug shortage data and apply clinical pharmacy judgment to assess readiness impacts.
- Develop and recommend risk mitigation strategies, such as strategic buffer stocks, alternate sourcing, and supplier diversification.
- Assess vendor resilience, manufacturing redundancy, and supplier cybersecurity posture.
- Identify opportunities to incentivize secure domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing.
- Serve as technical liaison to federal interagency partners across health, logistics, and regulatory agencies.
- Represent the program in joint and interagency pharmaceutical supply chain working groups.
- Lead technical implementation of pharmaceutical track-and-trace capabilities that comply with federal regulatory requirements.
- Define technical requirements for predictive analytics, logistics dashboards, and drug shortage early-warning systems.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, such as distributed-ledger provenance and advanced manufacturing, for supply chain integration.
- Apply predictive modeling to map sourcing and manufacturing dependencies and forecast disruptions from geopolitical or environmental events.
Desired Qualifications
- An active, unrestricted U.S. pharmacist license.
- An additional advanced degree, such as an MBA, Master of Science in supply chain management, or Master of Public Health.
- Certifications such as Certified Supply Chain Professional, Certified Professional in Supply Management, or Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Life Cycle Logistics.
- Uniformed service as a military pharmacy officer, including Army 67E, Navy MSC Pharmacy, or Air Force 43P, or a federal medical logistics assignment such as Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Medical, Defense Health Agency Medical Logistics, or Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response Strategic National Stockpile.
- Experience with military health, deployed medical logistics, or national stockpile programs.
- Familiarity with predictive analytics platforms and supply chain illumination tools.