About this Head of Global Supply Chain, Procurement & Sourcing role at Legend Biotech US
Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating and, one day, curing life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, we are advancing the next generation of cell therapy through a portfolio of innovative technologies, including autologous, allogeneic, and in vivo cell therapy approaches. Our research spans chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T), T-cell receptor (TCR-T), natural killer (NK) cell-based therapies, and other emerging platforms designed to transform the treatment of serious diseases. From our global network of research and development sites, we are committed to discovering and developing safe, effective, and cutting-edge therapies for patients worldwide.
Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Johnson & Johnson to jointly develop and commercialize CARVYKTI® (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel). Through this strategic partnership, we combine complementary expertise and capabilities to advance innovative immunotherapies for patients living with multiple myeloma.
Legend Biotech is seeking a Head of Global Supply Chain, Procurement & Sourcing as part of the Technical Operations team based in either Bridgewater, NJ or Ghent, Belgium.
Role Overview
The Associate Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Procurement & Sourcing is the enterprise leader accountable for the end-to-end supply of products and materials, from supplier through manufacturing and distribution to the patient/customer.The role establishes and executes the global strategy for demand and supply planning, strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier management, inventory, logistics, distribution, and supply chain resilience. The Associate Vice President ensures the organization has the capacity, materials, suppliers, and logistics capabilities required to support reliable supply, business growth, product launches, and long-term competitiveness.
The role is the senior executive owner of the company's external supply ecosystem, including strategic suppliers, critical raw materials, components, consumables, logistics providers, and other third-party services. The incumber will be a member of the GMS Leadership Team.
Key Responsibilities
Global Supply Chain Strategy
- Define and execute the global supply chain strategy aligned with business, portfolio, and patient/customer requirements.
- Establish the global operating model for planning, procurement, inventory, logistics, and supply chain execution.
- Develop a flexible and resilient supply network capable of supporting growth, launches, geographic expansion, and portfolio evolution.
- Establish global supply chain standards, governance, KPIs, and performance management.
Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
- Own the global procurement and strategic sourcing strategy for materials, components, services, and critical external supply.
- Develop supplier strategies that balance cost, quality, capacity, resilience, innovation, and business continuity.
- Lead strategic sourcing, supplier selection, negotiations, contracting strategy, and long-term supplier relationship management.
- Establish and manage the strategic supplier portfolio, including supplier segmentation, performance management, risk mitigation, and development.
- Drive sustainable cost improvement, value creation, and competitive sourcing while maintaining quality and supply reliability.
- Partner with CMC, MSAT, Manufacturing, Quality, and External Manufacturing to ensure sourcing strategies support technical and manufacturing requirements.
Demand & Supply Planning
- Own the integrated demand and supply planning process, translating commercial requirements into executable supply plans.
- Lead S&OP / IBP and provide executive recommendations on demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and allocation trade-offs.
- Ensure alignment between commercial demand, internal and external manufacturing capacity, materials availability, and inventory strategy.
Inventory, Logistics & Distribution
- Establish the global strategy for inventory, logistics, warehousing, and distribution.
- Optimize inventory and working capital while maintaining required patient/customer service levels and supply resilience.
- Ensure reliable and compliant distribution across global markets, including temperature-controlled and time-critical supply where applicable.
- Drive improvements in logistics service, speed, reliability, and cost.
Launch & Lifecycle Supply
- Provide supply chain and procurement leadership for new product launches, capacity expansions, site transfers, and lifecycle changes.
- Ensure supplier capacity, materials, inventory, logistics, and distribution are ready to support commercial launches.
- Partner with CMC, MSAT, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Commercial to ensure seamless transition from development to commercial supply.
Supply Chain Excellence & Digital Transformation
- Drive continuous improvement across cost, service, inventory, resilience, productivity, and cycle time.
- Establish end-to-end supply chain visibility through advanced planning, analytics, digital tools, and appropriate KPIs.
- Leverage data, automation, and AI to improve forecasting, sourcing, inventory optimization, supplier management, and supply chain decision-making.
Executive Leadership & Organization
- Build and lead a high-performing global organization across Supply Chain, Procurement, and Strategic Sourcing.
- Develop talent, organizational capabilities, and succession plans to support the company's growth and increasing supply chain complexity.
- Serve as a key member of the Global Manufacturing & Supply Leadership Team, contributing to enterprise strategy, portfolio decisions, capacity investments, and financial performance.
- Provide executive leadership with clear recommendations on cost, supply, capacity, supplier, inventory, and risk trade-offs.
- Build strategic relationships with critical suppliers and external partners and represent the company in senior external forums.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
- 20+ years of progressive experience in global supply chain, planning, operations, or pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical supply chain leadership, including significant executive experience.
- Proven experience leading complex global supply chains supporting commercial pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical products.
- Strong expertise in demand and supply planning, S&OP/IBP, inventory management, logistics, distribution, supply risk management, and network optimization.
- Demonstrated experience supporting global product launches and rapidly scaling supply networks.
- Experience with complex biologics, personalized medicines, cell & gene therapies, or other temperature-sensitive and time-critical products is highly desirable.
- Enterprise mindset and strong business judgment.
- Strategic and analytical thinking with strong decision-making capability.
- Ability to balance patient/customer service, supply risk, inventory, capacity, and cost.
- Strong executive presence and cross-functional influence.
- Builds high-performing organizations and develops future leaders.
- High resilience and ability to lead through supply disruption and uncertainty.
- Strong collaboration across Commercial, Manufacturing, CMC, MSAT, Quality, Procurement, and Finance.
- Language(s): English
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The base pay range below is what Legend Biotech USA Inc. reasonably expects to offer at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location. The company reserves the right to modify this range as needed and in accordance with applicable laws.
Other Types of Pay: Performance-based bonus and/or equity is available to employees in eligible roles.
Benefits and Paid Time Off: Medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as a 401(k) retirement plan with a company match that vests fully on day one. We offer eight (8) weeks of paid parental leave after just three (3) months of employment, and a paid time off policy that includes vacation time, personal time, sick time, floating holidays, and eleven (11) company holidays. Additional voluntary benefits include flexible spending and health savings accounts, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, legal assistance, and supplemental plans such as pet, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance. We also provide voluntary commuter benefits, family planning and care resources, well-being initiatives, and peer-to-peer recognition programs; demonstrating our ongoing commitment to building a culture where our people feel empowered, supported, and inspired to do their best work.
Please note: These benefits are offered exclusively to permanent full-time employees. Contractors are not eligible for benefits through Legend Biotech.
Work Authorization & Employment Eligibility
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. As part of our commitment to maintaining a lawful workforce and ensuring compliance with federal employment regulations, we participate in the E-Verify program. If you are selected for employment, you will be required to complete the Form I-9 process, and your employment eligibility will be verified through E-Verify in accordance with applicable federal law. We are committed to providing a fair, transparent, and welcoming hiring experience for all candidates.
EEO Statement
It is the policy of Legend Biotech to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state or local laws or ordinances.
Employment is at-will and may be terminated at any time with or without cause or notice by the employee or the company.
