Pendulum Therapeutics

Procurement

• Own category strategy and commercial relationships for Pendulum's contract manufacturers across blending, encapsulation, bottling, labeling, cartoning, and related finished-goods operations.
• Develop supplier network strategy balancing capability, quality, capacity, service, cost, speed, and business continuity.
• Lead supplier identification, diligence, selection, qualification, contracting, onboarding, transfers, and ongoing commercial management.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, capacity commitments, lead times, inventory liability, service levels, change controls, and long-term agreements.
• Build contingency plans, options, and capacity pathways to support growth and reduce concentration risk.
• Build transparent should-cost models and validate proposed price changes using open-book costing, benchmarks, production assumptions, and on-site observations.
• Deliver measurable savings without compromising quality, service, or supply continuity.
• Partner with Finance and Supply Planning on cost and capacity scenarios.
• Understand supplier facility operations, including material flow, scheduling, staffing, equipment constraints, line speeds, yields, changeovers, maintenance, quality holds, and warehouse operations.
• Map manufacturing processes, identify bottlenecks and sources of cost or lead-time variation, and apply industrial engineering fundamentals.
• Develop improvement roadmaps with suppliers and track implementation, results, and sustained performance.
• Spend time on production floors to validate assumptions, investigate issues, and build practical solutions.
• Own supplier relationships, governance, scorecards, business reviews, corrective actions, and escalations.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Product, R&D, Supply Planning, Packaging, Logistics, and Finance on supplier plans and manufacturing transitions.
• Lead supplier-readiness workstreams for launches, site transfers, packaging changes, scale-ups, and other transitions.
• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recovery plans to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Create tools, operating rhythms, and decision frameworks to improve supplier visibility, accountability, and execution.
• Drive urgent or ambiguous problems through to completed outcomes.

Senior Sourcing Manager, Contract Manufacturing