Director, Clinical Supply Chain

Director, Clinical Supply Chain

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the pharmaceutical industry while contributing to innovative solutions for chronic respiratory diseases? Verona Pharma is looking for a Director of Clinical Supply Chain to join our team, reporting to our Executive Director, Clinical Development. In this role, you’ll lead the strategic planning, cross-functional co-ordination and execution to deliver clinical program supplies, ensuring the success of our clinical trials and the timely delivery of life-changing therapies to patients with unmet medical needs. This is a specialist position designed for an experienced professional who thrives on applying deep expertise in clinical supply chains. While this is not a people management role, you’ll collaborate with key stakeholders across departments and lead partners at CROs to ensure program success. While we value and support remote work, this position requires a local presence in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area for periodic in-person collaboration, training, and important team meetings.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

• Meaningful Work: Be part of a company at the forefront of respiratory healthcare innovation, bringing first-in-class treatments to patients with significant unmet needs.
• Collaborative Culture: Work in a supportive environment where trust, accountability, and teamwork drive success.
• Make an Impact: Your expertise will directly influence the success of clinical trials and the availability of life-changing treatments for patients.

Who We Are:
At Verona Pharma, we are passionate about transforming the lives of millions of people living with chronic respiratory diseases. With our first product now approved by the US FDA, we’re just getting started. Our innovative respiratory pipeline targets a range of conditions, including non-CF bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis (CF), and asthma, driven by a commitment to bringing relief to patients navigating the challenges of progressive respiratory conditions.

Joining Verona means being part of a forward-thinking team that’s redefining what’s possible in drug development and commercialization. Guided by experienced leadership, we embrace a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture where your contributions can help shape a healthier future for patients worldwide. Be part of a mission-driven organization where your work has a direct impact on improving quality of life.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead Clinical Supplies Operations: Strategically plan, co-ordinate across parties and execute to deliver clinical supplies, including drug product manufacturing, clinical packaging, labeling, and distribution, clinical ancillaries procurement and supply to studies.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with CMC, Clinical, Regulatory, and Quality Assurance teams to shape clinical manufacturing campaigns, study protocols, clinical CRO vendor selection, packaging design, and distribution strategies.
• Manage Supply Forecasting: Translate clinical trial designs into precise supply forecasts, managing inventory, mitigating risks and ensuring seamless supply continuity.
• Oversee Vendor Management: Drive Clinical Supplies vendor selection, manage supplier relationships, and address performance issues.
• Develop Innovative Solutions: Craft robust business processes and strategies that elevate our clinical supply capabilities.
• Contribute to Regulatory Success: Author Investigational Product Handling Manuals and provide input for regulatory submissions, including INDs and NDAs.
• Present Your Expertise: Represent Verona at global investigator meetings, Clinical CRO planning events and internal cross-functional discussions, ensuring alignment on clinical supply requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree (science or business focus preferred).
• 10+ years in Clinical Supplies Management within pharmaceutical/biotech, CMO, or CRO organizations.
• Proficiency in clinical forecasting, IRT systems, and GXP regulations.
• A talent for translating complex trial designs into actionable clinical supply chain plans.
• Proven ability to influence, build trust, and manage vendor and cross-functional relationships.
• Experience developing solutions for diverse, complex clinical study supply chain challenges.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (10-15%).

Why Join Verona?
At Verona, you’ll have the chance to be part of a team bringing first-in-class treatments to patients who need them most. We offer:

• A collaborative and inclusive culture that values your contributions.
• Remote work flexibility for a better work-life balance.
• Competitive benefits, including generous PTO and comprehensive health plans.

An Equal Opportunity Employer:
Verona Pharma is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Verona Pharma are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.