Senior Site Planner

Kite, a Gilead Company, is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel cancer immunotherapy products designed to harness the power of a patient's own immune system to selectively target and kill cancer cells. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.

Do you want to make a real difference in the world? Come help us in our quest to cure cancer! Everyone at Kite is grounded by this common goal. Every single day, we seek to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work. Join us in our mission!

We are seeking a highly effective Senior Site Planner to work in this exciting new area of cancer immunotherapy. This position is located in Oceanside, CA. You will play a key role in ensuring production readiness from a production planning perspective, including facility start up, process tech transfer and validation, routine supply, process changes, and issue resolution.

Department Description

As the Senior Site Planner, you'll be joining a newly formed team in which people of all backgrounds and experiences are respected, and where working together focused on saving lives, by finding the cure for cancer, is a daily activity. You'll be reporting to the Associate Director Site Planning and Materials Management.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Provide and maintain detailed site scheduling production plans for viral vectors to assure no gaps or delays in processing, release, and shipments

• Partner with site Materials and Warehouse team on new materials readiness for the facility and process start-up phase

• Be the conduit to ensure an effective close loop communication of the site's production plan is understood by Corporate Supply Chain and the site Operations, Quality and Materials Mgmt teams

• Ensure short and long term site capabilities and production capacity commitments are aligned to the business objectives

• Coordinate activities required to support the manufacture, packaging, labeling, shipping, and distribution of clinical and commercial materials

• Support changes in BOM, demand and supply, perform planning assessment as needed; support raw material inventory and supply control as required

• Lead resolution and mitigation plans of materials issues at the site; escalate and coordinate with Global Supply Chain if required

• Provide timely updates to stakeholders on status of readiness activities and related projects

• Establish or update standard operating procedures (SOP's) as required and process controls to obtain and maintain an efficient and effective department

• Partner with all relevant stakeholders, global supply chain, manufacturing, quality, QC, finance

• Monitor functional area data quality reports and metrics identifying master data errors and identify revisions to data quality reports, new tools and/or processes to proactively prevent, identify, monitor and correct master data errors to resolution.

• Assure compliance with environmental and safety regulations

• Other duties as assigned

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or related business administration is preferred

• 10 years+ of supply experience in a pharmaceutical, biotech or medical company in a planning and supply chain management role preferred

• In-depth knowledge of material requirements planning and production scheduling

• APICS CPIM certification preferred

• Working knowledge and understanding of current Code of the Federal Regulations (CFR's) and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP's)

• Experience with Change Control Management, Deviations and CAPA Systems

• Experience with Oracle EBS, SAP or similar is strongly preferred

• Excellent skills in MS Word and Excel

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills are essential in this reciprocal work environment

• High energy level and a positive outlook to achieve personal and organizational goals and overcome obstacles

• Thrives in a startup, fast-paced environment with 'can do' attitude under minimal direction and able to adjust workload based upon changing priorities

• Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership in areas of responsibility

• Willing to accept temporary responsibilities outside of initial job description

• Able to work after hours, weekends and on call as needed

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.

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