Associate Director Clinical Supply Chain
Isomorphic LabsVisit Isomorphic Labs website
AI-first drug design and development company building a unified drug-design engine to advance new medicines.
London, United Kingdom
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About Isomorphic Labs
Isomorphic Labs uses predictive and generative AI models, computational biology, and drug-design expertise to develop therapeutics across partnered and internal programs.
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About the Role
You will lead end-to-end clinical trial material planning and operations, including vendor management, packaging, labeling, inventory, and global distribution. You will partner with Clinical Operations, external vendors, depots, couriers, and IRT providers to maintain supply readiness, compliance, and scalable processes for clinical studies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Life Sciences, Chemical or Industrial Engineering, Pharmacy, or a related discipline
- 7+ years of direct clinical supply chain management, clinical logistics, or investigational material management experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology
- Experience supporting clinical trials, rapid-response replenishment, and flexible kit demand
- Experience managing secondary packaging, clinical labeling, depot operations, and temperature-controlled transportation
- Working knowledge of cGMP, cGCP, Good Distribution Practices, and global clinical supply regulations
- Communication, negotiation, and cross-functional leadership skills
- Experience in a high-growth startup or lean biotech environment
- Experience with biologics clinical supply logistics and ancillary parenteral administration supplies
- Experience managing supplies for randomized double-blind placebo or comparator-controlled clinical trials
- Familiarity with Section 3.2.P labeling sections or pharmacy-related regulatory filing components
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain clinical supply demand forecasts to support uninterrupted patient dosing and minimize waste
- Manage investigational product fulfillment and site replenishment for changing protocol milestones, dose adjustments, and site demand
- Author and review investigational product handling and pharmacy manuals with internal colleagues and clinical CROs
- Direct secondary packaging, blinding and kitting strategies, and clinical label generation
- Select and manage clinical depots, shipping providers, chain-of-custody protocols, and specialty couriers
- Coordinate shelf-life information and manage clinical supply recovery and recalls
- Implement temperature monitoring and triage temperature excursions with Analytical Chemistry and Quality Assurance
- Direct investigational product reconciliation, returns, and authorized destruction
- Coordinate shipping vendors, QP release, import and export permits, depot networks, and VAT recovery
- Serve as the clinical supply chain liaison to clinical CROs
- Design IRT/RTSM specifications, resupply logic, supply buffers, reorder triggers, and user acceptance testing
- Track regulatory approvals, import and export requirements, and depot release gates for site activation
- Scale supply operations for larger blinded and randomized clinical trials
- Select and implement supply chain software, inventory systems, and digital dashboards
- Manage RFPs, contracts, SOWs, KPIs, SLAs, supply spend, and vendor invoices
- Review packaging and labeling batch records, release documentation, shipping authorizations, and transport permits
- Ensure clinical supply activities comply with cGMP, cGCP, GDP, ICH, and internal quality systems