Ananda Ghosh Roy

Representing GCS in the TRD Cultural Ambassador

SPoC for Early Talent in GCS

Lead the GCS engagement team in India along with Communication, GCS Onboarding team

• Lead a team of Supply Chain managers by optimally steering people and assets to best serve project needs according to priority and ensure timely delivery of high quality products to patients.
• Facilitated change management strategies and incorporated functional area infrastructure to support demand planning and supply initiatives.
• Ensure that the most talented associates are hired, trained and developed according respective business needs.
• Ensures the budget targets are maintained and in line with line function budget targets.
• Ensures compliance to all relevant standards (e.g., HSE, GMP, ISEC).
• Ensures that regulatory filings to health authorities are appropriately supported.
• Give guidance to team members. Provide coaching and technical training as subject matter expert. Act as mentor for junior and senior associates
• Data and Digital savviness in supply chain domain. Manage ordering and master data requirements in SAP and Rapid Response within the scope of the role
• Monitor KPI and performance measures to enable strategic objectives to be met, or corrective action to be taken.
• 11+ years

• Leading, representing, managing, and supporting Global Clinical Supply Project Team and operating as a single point of contact for clinical and technical teams across Global Drug Development on clinical supply strategy.
• Ensuring complete project oversight in Global Clinical Supply and retains accountability for project deliverables.
• Provide coaching and technical training as a subject matter expert (SME) and fulfill mentoring responsibilities for junior associates.

• Drives and plans supply from active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), formulations to finished packs and ensures key project milestones are met.
• Creates and updates supply plan on brand/project level, review/negotiates supply plan with cross-functional teams and ensures agreement with stakeholders/vendors on material delivery quantities and timelines.
• Planned and managed budget of all external costs related to projects and trials. Implemented the value of continuous process improvement within the team.

• Drives material supply process and ensures key project milestones are met.
• Aligns with all stakeholders on supplies to ensure that supply meets the changing demand at various phases of projects until the launch.
• Recommend solutions and participate in alignment of supply chain strategies with stakeholders during the project early phases and act as an interface between the global project and technical product development team.
• Aligns with all plants across the globe for long term demand capacity planning and coordinates with global strategic sourcing team from various third party suppliers.

• Successfully completed a project with a top US clothing and accessories retailer company for their IT asset disposal (ITAD) resulting in a net annual savings of $ 650,000 across all their global offices and factories.
• A contractual savings of $1M for a leading gas company in Eastern US by addressing an annual spend of $20M on IT maintenance services.
• Involved in business development, spend analysis, and market research analysis.
• Detailed understanding of requirement and sourcing strategy and RFx management.
• 2 years & 3 months

• Procurement of Non-Standard equipment through SAP MM module.
• Import of specialized instrument and coordinating with freight forwarders and marine insurance companies.
• Owner of the departmental MIS and vendor management.
• 9 months

• In-charge for entire logistics for the prestigious DAMEL (Delhi Airport Metro Expressway Link Project).
• Managing the core team performance.
• Tender preparation and submission.
• 3 years

• Vendor rating based on ISO guidelines.
• Supplier negotiations and release of purchase orders as per INCOTERMS and procurement of the goods.
• Sourcing for the potential product manufacturers, vendor evaluation, procurement, logistics and supply chain management, coordination with freight forwarders, custom documentations, interaction with end user and contract management.
• 3 years