No relocation is provided for this opportunity. This is a hybrid position requiring the team member to be onsite a minimum of 3 days per week. At West, we're a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life-saving and life-enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West's indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun. A name started our story. How will yours help write our future? There's no better place to join an inclusive community of professionals with opportunities for lifelong learning, growth and development. Supported by benefit programs, we empower the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our team members and their families. We believe in giving back to help those in need in the communities where we live and work. And are equally committed to creating a healthier environment and planet through our sustainability efforts.
Job Summary:
Reporting to the IBP Director, the Senior Manager, Global Inventory will lead inventory strategy and governance across the West network to support service, supply reliability, working capital, and business growth. This role will serve as the central point of coordination for inventory health, balance, and visibility, ensuring inventory positions are aligned with operational realities, financial objectives, and leadership expectations. This role will collaborate across DDD, E&PC, West Vantage, Distribution Centers, Logistics, Integrated Systems, Network Planning, End-to-End Planning, and Tech Transfer Planning. While not directly responsible for fulfillment strategy or warehouse inventory build decisions, this role will align system inventory accuracy, production actuals, transfer activity, safety stock strategies, and monthly inventory reporting across the network.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:- Lead inventory strategy and governance across the West network.
- Serve as the central point of coordination for inventory health, balance, and visibility.
- Collaborate across planning, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, integrated systems, and contract manufacturing teams to ensure inventory alignment with leadership expectations.
- Integrate inventory strategy into the monthly IBP/SIOP process.
- Partner with End-to-End Planners through the PSOM monthly meeting to review inventory actuals, forecasts, safety stock, production attainment, and transfer impacts.
- Act as the primary inventory touchpoint to align system accuracy, production execution, transfer activity, safety stock, and network inventory positioning.
- Support inventory alignment for product transfers, lifecycle changes, and dual-sourcing initiatives.
- Identify inventory imbalances, risks, and constraints, and drive alignment on mitigation actions.
- Help prevent obsolete inventory, including expiry-related risk, by surfacing excess inventory and supporting redeployment or demand opportunities.
- Establish and maintain standard processes for monthly inventory reporting and governance.
- Translate supply and inventory projections into financial impacts, including working capital, cash flow, EBIT, and balance sheet implications.
- Lead scenario modeling and trade-off analysis to support decision-making.
- Drive continuous improvement in inventory planning, reporting, and reconciliation processes.
- Ensure compliance with applicable company policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.#LI-TH1Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of leadership experience in inventory strategy, supply chain planning, S&OP, or IBP.Experience leading cross-functional planning in a complex supply chain environment. Experience managing or governing inventory across multi-node networks.
- Strong financial acumen, including working capital, cash flow, EBIT, and balance sheet impacts.
- Experience with scenario modeling, trade-off analysis, and inventory governance.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills. Education
- Bachelor's Degree Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or Business required.
- Master's Degree MBA preferred.
Preferred
Qualifications:
Master's degree or MBA.Knowledge of Oliver Wight IBP frameworks and Integrated Reconciliation.
Experience in regulated industries such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biotech, or healthcare manufacturing.
Experience with planning and ERP platforms such as SAP IBP, O9, Kinaxis, or similar tools. APICS / ASCM and/or Oliver Wight certification preferred.
Experience with network strategy, tech transfers, dual sourcing, contract manufacturing, and multi-node inventory governance preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain planning and inventory strategy.
- Ability to connect operational decisions to financial outcomes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to lead through influence in a matrixed environment. Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
- Understanding inventory risk management, including excess, expiry, obsolescence, and redeployment.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and disciplined planning processes.
- Ability to work with large data sets in Excel and Power BI. License and Certifications
- Manufacturing\Certified in Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)-APICS preferred.
- Manufacturing\Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)-APICS preferred.
Travel Requirements: 20%: Up to 52 business days per year
Physical Requirements:
Sedentary-Exerting up to 10lbs/4kgs of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
Additional Requirements:
Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods.
Able to be able to lift and carry various items up to 40 pounds.
Able to climb stairs and ladders.
Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, problem solve and prioritize.
Must also be able to maintain confidentiality and resolve conflicts.
Ability to make independent and sound judgments.
Read and interpret data, information, and documents.
Analyze and solve problems and interpret situations.
Work under deadlines with constant interruptions.
West is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you have a special need that requires accommodation in order to apply to West, please send an email to Apply.Accommodation@westpharma.com. Where permitted by law, an offer of employment with West Pharmaceutical Services, or any of its subsidiary or affiliate companies, is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of background screening.
