Director, International Supply Chain

At Viridian, we are focused on developing best-in-class medicines for people living with autoimmune and rare diseases. Leveraging our team’s expertise in antibody discovery and engineering, we have created a robust pipeline of differentiated investigational therapeutic candidates for well-validated targets.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Supply Chain, the Director, International Supply Chain will lead the planning and execution of Viridian’s international commercial supply chain, with primary accountability for external supply partners and the labeling, packaging, and delivery of finished goods for markets outside the United States. This individual contributor role will operate with significant autonomy and provide matrix leadership across Supply Chain, External Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Commercial, Finance, and Legal to build launch-ready, compliant, resilient, and scalable supply capabilities.

The successful candidate will translate market and launch requirements into executable supply plans, govern international vendors, anticipate supply risks, and ensure that packaging configurations, country-specific labeling, inventory positioning, and distribution readiness support launch and ongoing commercial supply continuity.

This role is fully remote and based in the UK. Travel to US headquarters or to international meetings may be required at the discretion of management.

Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):

• Own international commercial supply planning for finished goods, translating demand forecasts, launch sequencing, regulatory timelines, and market requirements into feasible labeling, packaging, release, inventory, and replenishment plans
• Lead the operational strategy and execution for country-specific and regional labeling and packaging, including artwork and component readiness, pack configuration, serialization and traceability requirements, change implementation, and coordination of market launch quantities
• Provide end-to-end oversight of international supply chain vendors, including logistics providers, depots, distributors, and other external partners supporting commercial supply
• Establish supplier governance through business reviews, service-level expectations, KPIs, issue escalation, decision logs, action tracking, and risk-based performance management
• Partner with Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, and local market stakeholders to ensure supply plans reflect approved product information, market authorization timing, quality release requirements, and local operational needs
• Develop launch readiness plans and integrated timelines for new countries, new presentations, and lifecycle changes; identify critical-path dependencies and drive timely cross-functional decisions
• Lead inventory and supply risk management for international finished goods, including scenario planning, safety-stock strategy, expiry exposure, allocation priorities, shortage prevention, and business continuity planning
• Coordinate with manufacturing and supply planning teams to align bulk product, drug product, packaging components, finished goods, and distribution capacity with international demand
• Support vendor selection, onboarding, contracting, and transitions by defining requirements, evaluating proposals, aligning quality and operational expectations, and ensuring implementation readiness
• Partner with Finance and functional stakeholders on budgets, forecasts, purchase orders, invoice review, accruals, and variance analysis for the international commercial supply network
• Drive continuous improvement across planning processes, master data, governance, reporting, packaging operations, cost, lead times, and supply reliability
• Represent International Supply Chain in cross-functional launch teams…