Kyverna is recruiting a highly motivated Executive Director, Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing, responsible for continuing to build, manage and optimize the Supply Chain function across the Kyverna portfolio of products, clinical sites and regions where Kyverna products are made available.
Title: Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain
Reports to: SVP, Manufacturing
Location: Remote with ability to support West Coast hours
The Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing Head will be responsible for managing the selection and implementation of critical supply components to the Kyverna Business across the supply chain including suppliers of critical materials, Build vs Buy opportunities for manufacturing of cell products, logistics services, and other fundamental components of the business to optimize the value chain in line with the Corporate Strategy.
Responsibilities
- Source, evaluate, and select components of the Supply Network including, but not limited to, Manufacturing Organizations, Technology Providers, Critical Material providers (Vector, LNP, Cells, Cell Lines, and Other).
- Lead and provide the tools and framework for the cross functional assessment of suppliers, vendors and partners for their capabilities, business stability, and quality of service.
- Partner with procurement to negotiate and implement major contracts related to manufacturing, development, procurement of critical materials, and logistics management with a balanced focus on cost, time and capabilities. Make strategic recommendations to the Kyverna Leadership on areas of growth, expansion, exit or contraction.
- Monitor the landscape, assess, categorize and communicate opportunities to evaluate the on-going directory of potential suppliers/services that help advance Kyverna 's business. Maintain the directory, eliminating suppliers/providers with unfavorable prior assessments and adding new suppliers/providers as they are identified.
- Provide strategic input, including capacity and capability planning and management, supporting the expansion of the Kyverna footprint globally. Assist teams in building the full business case with risks, opportunities and recommendations that support the growth of Kyverna .
- Identify areas of need for supply redundancy based on business risk.
- Recommend and establish strategic partnerships and opportunities for consolidation that reduces overall business complexity and risk.
- Partner with stakeholders in Business Development, Legal, Manufacturing, Quality, Technical Development, Clinical Development and Life-cycle Leadership to identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities to establish efficient supply networks that support the corporate vision and strategy.
- Manage and optimize the Supply Chain function to ensure timely, cost-effective, and robust management of all materials and products to all regions where Kyverna pr