Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Manufacturing Business Operations

Job Title

Job Description

Accountabilities

Provide team leadership to ensure
1) Pharm Sci business processes are operating smoothly (Cap Ex, OpEx, Governance),
2) partner with Procurement to deliver year-over-years savings targets, and
3) support Pharm Sci in the development of SOWs, contracts and any additional purchasing support.

Develop a strategic vision that works across all Pharm Sci functions and delivers significant benefits to stakeholders in the short term and supports a long-term vision of the organization.

Develop tools and trackers to streamline decision making and support executive reporting.

Ensure that all related activities are synchronized, implemented, monitored, and reported, including the creation and management of timelines, risk management plans, dashboards, and scorecards.

Lead Pharm Sci Clinical Manufacturing transformation that incorporates proactive and innovative solutions to address strategic objectives. Manage transformation roadmap and work streams (sequencing, risks, issues, opportunities, resource plans, change management strategies, progress tracking, and budgets).

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and leadership at all levels to ensure successful assessment, execution and sustainability of strategic initiatives.

Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communication at all levels of the organization. Ensure cross-functional/organizational alignment in the design, execution, and integration of strategic initiatives.

Develop a measurement system and/or tool to assess awareness, understanding, buy-in, and support of transformation and/or change management activities.

Develop feedback mechanisms at strategic touch points to facilitate open discussions of improvement opportunities and execution challenges (with a view to quickly implementing refinements or solutions).

Provide strategic advice and counsel leaders to ensure that all functional activities, tracking, and expectations are consistent with objectives.

Assist work streams and workstream leads with skills in process and execution excellence, project management, facilitation, problem-solving, change management, and value creation.

Partner with functional counterparts to develop training and communication strategies as well as specific curricula and content.

Dimensions and Aspects

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

Comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and significant job-related experience in managing business process, sourcing, executive dashboarding and systems improvement.

Leadership

Demonstrated experience successfully managing and leading a team

Demonstrated ability to work across functions, regions and cultures

Functional level leadership with the ability to inspire, motivate and drive results

Excellent communicator, able to persuasively convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing

Proven skills as an effective team player who can engender credibility and confidence within and outside the company

Ability to distill complex issues and ideas down to simple comprehensible terms

Demonstrates leadership presence and confidence

Embraces and demonstrates a diversity and inclusion mindset and role models these behaviors for the organization

Builds teams across functions and geographies with individuals who have the right skills and experience to deliver on key organizational initiatives.

Invests time in helping others to enhance their skills and perform at a higher level

Decision-making and Autonomy

Provide input to highly complex decisions that impact the functional area

Accountable for decision making for designated function

Ability to seek diverse input from multiple constituents and stakeholders to drive innovative solutions

Ability to incorporate feedback and ensure decisions are implemented swiftly to yield flawless execution

Accountable for providing input to and implementing vision and strategy for designated scope-making, complexity of decisions, impact of decisions, problem-solving)

Interaction

Effectively navigates the changing external and internal environment and leads others through change by creating and inspiring and engaging workplace

Cultivates a broad network of relationships…