Supply Chain Lead- Rare Diseases

Supply Chain Lead- Rare Diseases Field of work:  Supply Chain & Procurement Posting Date:  12 Mar 2026 Application deadline:   Location: Gdansk 80-309, , Poland  Contract type: Permanent  Job ID: 4322    Role Description Are you ready to play a pivotal role in ensuring critical patient access to life-changing treatments? We are seeking a Supply Chain Lead– Rare Diseases to oversee the supply chain operations for our rare disease products, ensuring on-time and full delivery to patients in urgent situations. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working on product launches and managing supply for rare disease treatments. If this excites you, we would love to hear from you.   Join us in creating a future legacy in medical dermatology.   At LEO Pharma, we are global leaders in medical dermatology. We have 115 years' experience in bringing innovation to healthcare. And we are eager to do much more. Each year, close to 100 million people have a better day because of our medicine.     Your Role   As a Supply Chain Lead – Rare Diseases, you will play a critical role in ensuring speed and accuracy in patient delivery while driving supply chain execution for rare disease products. Your role will also involve close alignment with stakeholders across the organization to drive performance during product launches and address urgent patient needs.   Your key responsibilities include:   Urgent order handling as the primary point of contact, ensuring seamless distribution and timely delivery. Managing executional planning, including purchase order placement, availability date maintenance, and PO pricing confirmation under various distribution models. Supporting documentation management, including distribution and quality documentation updates. Coordinating commercial supply and demand planning, including market forecast alignment and adapting to forecast changes for low-volume, long-lead-time products. Monitoring SKU availability and supporting market safety stock management. Taking ownership of launch management for one of the products, acting as the central point of contact, facilitating cross-functional coordination, and hosting launch sessions. Collaborating with external manufacturing teams to align capacity requirements, maintain inventory control, and forecast consolidation. Supporting business execution for new product launches, proposing tools, documenting processes, and enabling network redesigns.     Your Qualifications   To excel in this role, you should bring:   A graduate degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration Proven experience in the pharmaceutical/healthcare supply chain, with prior involvement in product launches and life-cycle management considered an advantage. Exceptional stakeholder management skills, capable of navigating conflicting interests and operating at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Fluency in English, both written and spoken. A structured ability to handle complex, non-routine tasks and effectively collaborate with diverse teams. A flexible mindset to accommodate cross-time-zone collaboration and work outside standard hours to ensure patient needs are met promptly.   Note: Flexible working hours are essential due to the critical nature of rare diseases, across time zones, and the potential for delivery within 24 hours.