VP Supply Chain

Summary of Position

The Vice President of Supply Chain is responsible for designing, leading, and optimizing the end-to-end supply chain for a radiopharmaceutical company operating under stringent regulatory, time, and safety constraints. This role oversees the procurement, manufacturing logistics, warehousing, and distribution of products with short half-lives, ensuring on-time delivery of life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic agents to patients and clinical sites. The successful candidate will balance the unique demands of radioactive material handling, isotope supply security, and just-in-time delivery with cost control, quality, and full regulatory compliance.

Essential Functions

• Develop and execute a comprehensive supply chain strategy aligned with commercial, clinical, and manufacturing objectives.
• Build, mentor, and lead a cross-functional team spanning procurement, planning, warehousing, logistics, and distribution.
• Serve as a member of the senior operations leadership team, contributing to enterprise-wide decision-making.
• Work cross-functionally and intracompany to secure isotope supply and de-risk single-source dependencies and global supply disruptions.
• Manage relationships with reactor/cyclotron suppliers, generators, and precursor manufacturers.
• Establish contingency and business continuity plans for isotope shortages.
• Oversee warehousing operations for radioactive materials, precursors, components, and finished products, ensuring proper segregation, shielding, and storage controls.
• Establish and maintain licensed radioactive material storage areas in compliance with NRC and state radiation safety requirements.
• Implement inventory accuracy, cycle counting, lot/serial traceability, and decay-based stock rotation appropriate to short-half-life products.
• Manage temperature-controlled and hazardous-material storage, including monitoring, alarming, and qualification of storage environments.
• Optimize warehouse layout, capacity, and workflows to support rapid release and dispatch of time-critical product.
• Oversee time-critical, temperature- and radiation-controlled distribution networks to deliver short-half-life products within tight delivery windows.
• Design and manage the distribution strategy, including 3PL partners, specialized couriers, and last-mile delivery for radioactive materials.
• Ensure compliance with DOT, IATA, NRC, DEA, and international transport regulations for radioactive and controlled-substance shipments.
• Oversee trade compliance for import/export activities, including customs, classification, licensing, and adherence to applicable global trade regulations.
• Maintain DEA registration, recordkeeping, and chain-of-custody requirements for the handling and distribution of controlled substances.
• Maintain rigorous chain-of-custody, packaging, labeling, and radiation safety standards throughout transport.
• Drive distribution performance through routing optimization, carrier management, and real-time shipment tracking.
• Ensure logistics performance achieves 100% on-time-in-full (OTIF) delivery.
• Lead demand planning, S&OP, and inventory management tailored to decay-sensitive products.
• Design, execute, maintain, and audit master data, bills of materials (BOMs), routings, and work order management.
• Implement systems and KPIs to drive on-time-in-full performance, waste reduction, and forecast accuracy.
• Coordinate closely with manufacturing to synchronize production scheduling with warehousing and delivery commitments.
• Ensure supply chain, warehousing, and distribution operations meet cGMP, FDA, NRC, and applicable state and international regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory Affairs on supplier qualification, audits, and CAPA.
• Maintain rigorous chain-of-custody and radiation safety standards across all storage and transport activities.
• Own the supply chain, warehousing, and distribution budget; execute supply chain strategy to deliver best-in-class savings without compromising quality or compliance.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with suppliers, carriers, warehouse operators, and 3PL partners.
• Must maintain operational compliance with US and international regulatory agencies and guidelines (i.e. FDA, DEA, EU, HC, TGA, PIC/S, ISO, USP, NRC, cGMP, etc.).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, life sciences, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 18+ years or more of relevant supply chain experience, with 10 or more years in senior leadership role.
• Direct experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, nuclear medicine, or radiopharmaceutical industries.
• Demonstrated expertise managing warehousing, distribution, and time-sensitive, regulated, or cold-chain/hazardous-material logistics.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP, FDA, NRC, DOT, and IATA regulations.
• Experience with short-half-life or decay-sensitive product distribution preferred.
• Familiarity with isotope production (reactor-based and cyclotron) supply ecosystems preferred.
• Track record of building resilient, diversified supply networks and distribution operations in constrained markets preferred.  

Working Conditions:

• Willingness to work in plant producing radioactive materials and requiring all employees to participate in safety programs designed to minimize potential and/or actual exposure levels.
• Responsibilities include the ability to lift up to 70 pounds, kneeling, crouching, twisting the upper body, walking, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, reaching, must be able to physically negotiate stairs and evacuation ladders with or without accommodation, wear and operate safety equipment, enter vessels, and inspect equipment. 
• Material handling devices (e.g., hand truck, fork truck, and conveyors) are used when possible, however, use of proper lifting and movement techniques is necessary to prevent injury.
• Must be willing to wear a variety of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and hearing protection as needed.
• May be required to sit or stand for long periods of 8+ hours a day while performing duties. 
• Must possess good hand-eye coordination; close attention to detail is required.
• Must be able to work indoors and outdoors with exposure to mechanical/moving parts, hazards including corrosive, flammable and toxic material, dust, dirt, odors, and irritants.
• Willingness to complete safety training within allotted timeframes, and work in a team-based environment.
• Must be able to work outside of regular work hours, including off shift, weekend, and holiday work as business needs require.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% as required by business needs.

Competencies