Sr Supply Chain Specialist

Kite is focused on advancing cancer therapies, including pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies, and is continuing to expand its impact in medical science. Kite believes every employee deserves a great leader, and people leaders are central to creating an environment where employees feel included, developed, and empowered to fulfil their aspirations.

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.

Job Description

Knowledge

• Possesses good planning and organizational skills coupled with strong communication, time management skills and aptitude for working with computer systems to plan and manage supply chain requirements.
• Demonstrates an in depth understanding and application of principles, concepts, practices, and standards along with an in depth knowledge of industry practices.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, strong analytical skills and problem-solving capability.
• Able to develop solutions to a wide range of moderately complex problems, which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation.
• Proficient in ERP system software, with emphasis in the Operations / Supply Chain functionality.
• Knowledgeable in cGMP operations functionality.

Specific Education & Experience Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant experience in related field and a BS or BA; or 4+ years of relevant experience and a MA/MBA/MS; or 2+ years of relevant experience and a MA/MBA.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Facilitates Import/Export shipment transactions while working closely with the corporate Trade Compliance, logistics departments and brokers.
• Assigns HTS & ECCN classifications to commodities and maintains their database.
• Responsible for resolving information requests from Brokers for import clearance of commodities in a timely manner.
• Quickly resolves any outstanding issues with PGAs to ensure fast clearance of commodities.
• Managing Trade Compliance and Regulatory processes and identifying such requirements in EMEA, LATAM and APAC Regions.
• Well versed in EMA and other local government regulations and operational procedures.
• Solid understanding of Incoterms and their application.
• Administers import and export recordkeeping requirements.
• Responsible for COO determination.
• Conducting customs brokerage and shipment transactions audits.
• Working on development implementation, process improvement, training and audits of Trade Compliance policies, procedures and WIs.
• Setting up new compliance relationships and the underlying operations to support them.
• Ensure compliance with foreign legal requirements related to import and export to and from foreign countries.
• Working with Global Tax and brokers to correctly setup VAT entry transmission information on entries.
• Acts as liaison between end-users, IT and cross-functional teams in the analysis, designs, configuration, testing and maintenance of systems to achieve optimal operational performance.
• Performs export compliance screening against the Denied Parties Lists.
• Ability to reconcile entries with Customs.
• Familiarity with BTI rulings, ability to analyze them and apply the rulings to transactions and commodities.
• Developing presentations and effectively communicating findings, results and action plans to peers and management.
• Provides Trade Compliance Training to operations personal when needed.
• Ability to implement Trade Compliance and Regulatory processes in new countries.
• Close familiarity with US IMEX regulations and their implementation.

Basic Qualifications

• Solid experience in Trade Compliance.
• Well versed in using MS Office suite software.
• Ability to work and problem solve complex compliance issues independently.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to analyze data and metrics, draw conclusions and determine actions.
• Capacity for autonomous problem solving and demonstrated multi-tasking capabilities.
• Ability to identify process deficiencies and streamline current procedures.
• Strong attention to detail, time management, prioritization and organizational skills.