Director, Vaccine Production

The Director, Vaccine Production provides technical and strategic leadership that drives end-to-end integration and facilitation of the timely manufacture of quality vaccines by ensuring schedules, plans, equipment, and resources are horizontally and vertically integrated within vaccine production and filling areas to optimize cost, quality, delivery, and compliance requirements. This role is also responsible for driving a culture of continuous improvement which delivers year-on-year improvements in yield, process reliability and supply performance.

The Director hires, leads and develops talent to ensure fulfillment of critical positions within Operations and may serve as interim deputy in the designated deputy's absence.

• Leads and provides direction to vaccine manufacturing and aseptic filling functions to assure supply and enhance performance related to cost, quality, delivery/supply, process and compliance in the production of vaccines to be distributed both domestically and internationally.
• Provides technical leadership for issues relating to the manufacture of current products, new product development and product launch.
• Develops and implements the appropriate teams, procedures, and metrics to ensure the successful execution of new product initiatives transferred into manufacturing.
• Drives the implementation of a continuous improvement culture through thoughts, deeds, actions, BPE, and process development yield and reliability improvement projects.
• Establishes best practice sharing between sites and compares with external benchmarks.
• Provides leadership and direction for process optimization efforts relating to cost, quality, delivery, process reliability, yield and compliance for both current and new products.
• Prepares the expense and head‑count budgets for the manufacturing and filling functions of the assigned site.
• Effectively communicates CapEX requirements for manufacturing facility based on the BI AH and global AH business plans and strategies.
• Provides oversight of Bills of Materials and routings to reflect production processes, minimizing yield usage and conversion variance.
• Ensures the qualification and maintenance of the department, premises and equipment and that appropriate validations are completed as required.
• Develops a highly competent and appropriately aligned organization including a strong management team, through a combination of individual development, external hiring and motivating high‑quality personnel.
• Champions the development and performance management of all employees to include succession planning and career development.
• Ensures that the required initial and continuing training of the department personnel is completed on time and that training is adapted according to need.
• Provides strategic oversight for approval and implementation of the procedures and instructions relating to production operations to ensure that products are produced and stored according to the appropriate documentation to obtain the required quality.
• Ensures that the production records are evaluated and signed by an authorized person.
• Drives year‑on‑year tech agenda that delivers enhanced site supply and financial performance.
• Responsible for deliverables achieved through direct oversight and application of scientific guidance for the process development (MSAT) scientific team and production functions resulting in year‑on‑year reductions in destructions and improvements in process reliability through process understanding.
• Applicable site is responsible for stable supply of ≤ 90 antigens and anywhere from 175‑650 product SKUs.

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of ten (10) years progressive experience and a broad range of experience and technical competence in veterinary/vaccine production.
• Ten (10) or more years of leadership experience.
• Five (5) years’ experience working with business process excellence concepts such as Lean.
• Experience driving improvement in yield and process reliability in vaccine production space.
• Data‑driven decision making and smart risk taking.
• Change agent with proven record of instilling culture of continuous improvement.
• Must demonstrate…