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Overview

At Otsuka our mission is to create new products for better health worldwide. Our purpose is to defy limitation so that others can too.

In this exciting role, as a Manager within the OAPI supply chain team, you will look to achieve operational goals while working cross-functionally across various departments to support development, planning, and implementation of the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) process.

You will support execution of global sourcing strategies across various supplier categories related to Otsuka products.

You will manage a complex portfolio of products with competing priorities that include balancing inventory, managing vendor / supplier relationships, optimizing total delivered cost to meet finished goods demand with focus on delivering value to our patients, our suppliers, and to Otsuka.

You will create and nurture an environment for proactive communications with cross functional collaborators that will help ensure both internal and external customer demands are consistently met with no laps in supply and availability of products to our patients.

Additional facets of the role include coordinating purchase requisitions in the ERP system, monitoring supplier performance KPIs and reporting, coordinating, and aligning production and development efforts with program goals and communicating demand / forecast with key vendors / suppliers.

Working closely with program / project manager, product development, new product introduction, technical operations, site quality and pharmaceutical development internal/external manufacturing teams.