Supply Chain Lead, Asia Pacific — Roche

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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters. The Position Product & Supply Chain Management (PTS) connects the different parts of Roche to ensure reliable supply of our innovative medicines to customers and patients. We ensure worldwide reliable supply to patients connecting their needs to the Roche Pharma Global Supply Network. This network consists of Roche manufacturing sites, contract manufacturers and external suppliers. We partner across Pharma to develop and execute agile product lifecycle and network strategies. We design and optimize end-to-end Supply Chains from raw materials to final product throughout the whole product life-cycle. Are you passionate about Supply Chain and looking for a meaningful role? In this position, you will report into the Head Supply Chain Region, Asia Pacific, China, MEA, CEETRIS and you are accountable for leading a supply chain function, including Planning, that ensures the continuous supply of products to patients in Asia Pacific (10 affiliates 4 direct sale markets), today and into the future in a manner that is both effective and efficient for Roche. The key metrics for this role are forecast accuracy and bias, inventory of finished goods, stock outs and backlogs, launch metrics and timelines, as well as key employee engagement metrics from organizational surveys and other sources. These metrics will assess your success in solving complex problems such as: How much safety stock should we maintain for key products while simultaneously reducing our inventory overall? How much demand should we predict for the launch of a new product that will ensure access to medicine despite uncertainty? How do we align with key manufacturing sites to better predict supplier variability in order to improve our confidence in committed supply plans? How do we navigate a major quality failure, leading to a stock-out of a key product which could last for several weeks? These questions need to be answered on behalf of the supply chain on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis, and the context for these decisions impacts our sales. The Opportunity

• Driving Strategy and Innovation with a View to the Future: You will g enerate a view of the future of the regional businesses, determine how the regional Supply Chain team can effectively function in the midst of future scenarios, and design and plan a resulting strategy to address key issues such as biosimilar entry, market access, policy changes, network capacity constraints, and any other disruptions or events that could impact our ability to supply product to patients. You will drive innovation within your organization and across Roche manufacturing and the affiliates to deliver on this strategy including localization options and distribution or channel strategy.
• Building and Maintaining Strong Business and Process Acumen in both PT and Commercial: You will be expected to be fully knowledgeable about and experienced in key PT processes and systems in order to drive continuous improvement of processes, coach/support their team, and build fluency in the Commercial businesses (e.g., key forecast drivers, key market events) in order to connect key business events and data points to understand the future direction and requirements of the enterprise as a whole.
• Deliver Results for the Business on a Daily/Monthly Basis: You will be accountable for driving the monthly sales and operations process and the monthly demand planning cycle and replenishment plan/execution for finished goods for the 3 regions. This will entail interpreting the portfolio r