Associate Director, Clinical Supply Chain, Cambridge, MA

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights faster breakthroughs and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one were building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed.

Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AIs powerful capabilities we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the worlds most devastating diseases.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Every day and with each new breakthrough were getting closer to the promise of digital biology and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.

We are seeking a proactive self-driven highly organized and entrepreneurial Clinical Supply Chain colleague to lead end-to-end clinical trial material (CTM) planning vendor management packaging labeling inventory management and global distribution operations. Reporting directly to the Head of Early Development you will serve as the clinical supply authority within a lean Pharmaceutical Sciences & CMC Manufacturing team acting as a direct partner to Clinical Operations and the larger Clinical Development organization. As part of an AI-first company you will help us reimagine how we bring new medicines to patients.

This role is designed for growth. As our pipeline advances you will be the foundational architect of our clinical supply operations - scaling systems processes and vendor networks to support future clinical studies in different modalities and therapeutics areas.

Operating within an agile model you will execute operations through external clinical packaging and labeling vendors central/regional depots specialized temperature-controlled chain couriers and Interactive Response Technology (IRT/RTSM) providers. Internally you will bridge between drug manufacturing with Clinical Operations for clinical trial execution.

Clinical Supply Planning & Execution

• Dynamic Demand Forecasting: Build and maintain flexible clinical supply models tailored to the unpredictable pace of clinical trials ensuring uninterrupted patient dosing while minimizing drug waste.
• Rapid-Response Resupply: Manage flexible investigational product fulfillment and site replenishment strategies to support dynamic protocol milestones dose adjustments and study demand fluctuations across participating trial sites.
• Pharmacy Manuals & Site Support: Collaborate with internal colleagues and Clinical CROs to author and review the Investigational Product (IP) Handling and Pharmacy Manuals establishing clear site-level guidance for drug storage handling accountability and dose preparation reconciliation and destruction.

Packaging Labeling & Distribution Logistics

• Packaging & Label Design: Direct secondary packaging blinding/kitting strategies and label generation for clinical trial supplies ensuring regulatory compliance with applicable regional and global standards and regulations.
• Depot & Logistics Management: Select and manage central and regional clinical depots; oversee qualified domestic shipping lines secure chain-of-custody protocols and specialty courier operations.
• Understand the latest retest/expiry dating for clinical supplies by coordinating with Analytical Development to get the latest shelf life on clinical supplies to ensure recovery/recalls can be done without interrupting or delaying the clinical study.
• Temperature Monitoring & Excursions (TEs): Implement continuous temperature monitoring solutions across shipments and depot storage.
• Triage temperature excursions in real time partnering with Analytical Chemistry and Quality Assurance to assess stability impact and execute rapid product disposition.
• Accountability Reconciliation & Destruction: Direct end-of-study IP reconciliation returns and authorized destruction workflows across trial sites and depots in compliance with cGMP/GCP and ICH standards.
• Direct qualified domestic and international shipping vendors and distribution strategies QP release coordination import/export permits/license requirements depot networks and VAT planning and recovery.

Clinical CRO IRT/RTSM & Clinical Operations Partnership

• Clinical CRO Alignment: Serve as the primary clinical supply chain liaison to Clinical CROs synchronizing supply readiness with clinical timelines.
• IRT/RTSM System Implementation: Partner with Clinical Operations and IRT providers to design system functional specifications supply buffer strategies reorder triggers predictive resupply logic and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Site Activation Readiness: Track country- and site-level regulatory approvals import/export requirements and depot release gates to ensure Investigational Product arrives on-site well in advance of First Patient In (FPI).

Supply Chain Scalability

• Small Molecule Scaling: Structure the transition from early open-label studies to larger multi-center randomized double-blind placebo/comparator-controlled trials including managing matching placebo/comparator supplies and complex blinded packaging.
• Supply Systems Evolution: Drive the selection and implementation of supply chain enterprise software inventory tracking systems and digital dashboards as company development activities scale.

Quality Compliance & Vendor Governance

• Vendor Management: Direct technical RFPs contract negotiations Statements of Work (SOWs) and performance metrics (KPIs/SLAs) for clinical packaging/labeling CMOs/CPOs (Contract Manufacturing/Packaging Organizations) logistics providers and storage depots.
• Batch Release & Import/Export Documentation: Review and approve packaging/labeling batch records release documentation material shipping authorizations and domestic transport permits in partnership with QA.
• GxP Compliance & Audit Readiness: Ensure all clinical supply activities comply strictly with cGMPs ICH GDPs and CGPs and internal quality management systems.
• Direct technical RFIs RFPs SOWs and KPIs while tracking trial supply spend and vendor invoice approvals.

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Supply Chain Management Logistics Life Sciences Chemical/Industrial Engineering Pharmacy or a related discipline.
• Industry Experience: 7 years of direct experience in clinical supply chain management clinical logistics or investigational material management within a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company.
• Study Start-up Experience: Proven experience supporting clinical trials with a firm grasp of logistics rapid-response replenishment and flexible kit demand.
• Packaging & Distribution: Practical experience managing secondary packaging clinical labelingdepot operations and temperature-controlled transportation planning/execution.
• GxP & Regulatory Rigor: Thorough working knowledge of cGMP cGCP Good Distribution Practices (GDP); global clinical supply regulations and experience working with Regulatory and Legal functions in these areas.
• Exceptional communication negotiation and cross-functional leadership skills with a proven ability to coordinate complex operational timelines across diverse technical and clinical stakeholders.

• Prior experience in a high-growth venture-backed startup or lean biotech environment where autonomy technical versatility and building processes from the ground up are required.
• Biologics Supply Chain Experience: Direct experience managing clinical supply logistics for biologic modalities and ancillary parenteral administration supplies.
• Blinded Trial Experience: Experience managing supplies for randomized double-blind placebo/comparator-controlled clinical trials including blinding maintenance and placebo matching.
• Familiarity with Section 3.2.P (Drug Product / Container Closure) labeling sections or pharmacy-related components of regulatory filings (IND/IMPD).

We are guided by our shared values. Its not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity creativity and care. It is about good people doing good rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness but its also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. Its a confidence in our hypothesis as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease wont wait so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. Its knowing that transformation is a group project and remembering that what were doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. Were building an environment where collaboration is fundamental learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.

Its hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday Wednesday and one other day depending on which team youre in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach wed be happy to talk through these if youre selected for an initial screening call.

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