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Legend Biotech

Develops and commercializes cell therapies

Head of Global Supply Chain - Procurement & Sourcing

Procurement & Sourcing +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBridgewater, NJ, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's or advanced degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
  • At least 20 years of progressive experience in global supply chain, planning, operations, or pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical supply chain leadership, including significant executive experience.
  • Proven experience leading complex global supply chains supporting commercial pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical products.
  • Strong expertise in demand and supply planning, S&OP/IBP, inventory management, logistics, distribution, supply risk management, and network optimization.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting global product launches and rapidly scaling supply networks.
  • An enterprise mindset and strong business judgment.
  • Strategic and analytical thinking with strong decision-making capability.
  • Ability to balance patient/customer service, supply risk, inventory, capacity, and cost.
  • Strong executive presence and cross-functional influence.
  • Ability to build high-performing organizations and develop future leaders.
  • High resilience and ability to lead through supply disruption and uncertainty.
  • Strong collaboration across Commercial, Manufacturing, CMC, MSAT, Quality, Procurement, and Finance.
  • English language proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the global supply chain strategy aligned with business, portfolio, and patient/customer requirements.
  • Establish the global operating model for planning, procurement, inventory, logistics, and supply chain execution.
  • Develop a flexible and resilient supply network capable of supporting growth, launches, geographic expansion, and portfolio evolution.
  • Establish global supply chain standards, governance, KPIs, and performance management.
  • Own the global procurement and strategic sourcing strategy for materials, components, services, and critical external supply.
  • Develop supplier strategies that balance cost, quality, capacity, resilience, innovation, and business continuity.
  • Lead strategic sourcing, supplier selection, negotiations, contracting strategy, and long-term supplier relationship management.
  • Establish and manage the strategic supplier portfolio, including supplier segmentation, performance management, risk mitigation, and development.
  • Drive sustainable cost improvement, value creation, and competitive sourcing while maintaining quality and supply reliability.
  • Partner with CMC, MSAT, Manufacturing, Quality, and External Manufacturing to ensure sourcing strategies support technical and manufacturing requirements.
  • Own the integrated demand and supply planning process, translating commercial requirements into executable supply plans.
  • Lead S&OP/IBP and provide executive recommendations on demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and allocation trade-offs.
  • Ensure alignment between commercial demand, internal and external manufacturing capacity, materials availability, and inventory strategy.
  • Establish the global strategy for inventory, logistics, warehousing, and distribution.
  • Optimize inventory and working capital while maintaining required patient/customer service levels and supply resilience.
  • Ensure reliable and compliant distribution across global markets, including temperature-controlled and time-critical supply where applicable.
  • Drive improvements in logistics service, speed, reliability, and cost.
  • Provide supply chain and procurement leadership for new product launches, capacity expansions, site transfers, and lifecycle changes.
  • Ensure supplier capacity, materials, inventory, logistics, and distribution are ready to support commercial launches.
  • Partner with CMC, MSAT, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Commercial to ensure seamless transition from development to commercial supply.
  • Drive continuous improvement across cost, service, inventory, resilience, productivity, and cycle time.
  • Establish end-to-end supply chain visibility through advanced planning, analytics, digital tools, and appropriate KPIs.
  • Leverage data, automation, and AI to improve forecasting, sourcing, inventory optimization, supplier management, and supply chain decision-making.
  • Build and lead a high-performing global organization across Supply Chain, Procurement, and Strategic Sourcing.
  • Develop talent, organizational capabilities, and succession plans to support the company's growth and increasing supply chain complexity.
  • Serve as a key member of the Global Manufacturing & Supply Leadership Team, contributing to enterprise strategy, portfolio decisions, capacity investments, and financial performance.
  • Provide executive leadership with clear recommendations on cost, supply, capacity, supplier, inventory, and risk trade-offs.
  • Build strategic relationships with critical suppliers and external partners and represent the company in senior external forums.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with complex biologics, personalized medicines, cell and gene therapies, or other temperature-sensitive and time-critical products is highly desirable.

About the Company

Legend Biotech

Develops and commercializes cell therapies

Legend Biotech develops and commercializes cell therapies for serious diseases, especially hematological cancers and solid tumors, using multiple technology platforms. Its CAR-T therapies modify a patient’s own T cells to fight cancer, and the company licenses and sells these therapies while pursuing additional research. By pursuing a technology-agnostic pipeline, Legend Biotech aims to bring effective, personalized treatments to patients globally. The company also maintains investor communications to share progress and results.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bridgewater Township, New Jersey
Founded
2014

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