Global Supply Chain Lead - Pharma Solutions

Head of Supply Chain, Pharma Solutions

Build the Supply Chain Backbone of a Growing Global Pharma Business
Pharma Solutions is a growing business within Croda, serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and veterinary-health customers through innovative excipients, vaccine adjuvants, peptide technology, lipid technologies, and formulation expertise. As the business scales globally, reliable supply execution is essential to customer trust, operational performance, and sustainable growth.

Head of Supply Chain, Pharma Solutions
Build the Supply Chain Backbone of a Growing Global Pharma Business
Pharma Solutions is a growing business within Croda, serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and veterinary-health customers through innovative excipients, vaccine adjuvants, peptide technology, lipid technologies, and formulation expertise. As the business scales globally, reliable supply execution is essential to customer trust, operational performance, and sustainable growth.

The Head of Supply Chain will build and lead the global supply-chain operating model for Pharma Solutions, connecting commercial demand, manufacturing capability, inventory strategy, inbound material security, warehousing, logistics, and customer service through one disciplined and scalable process.

This is a visible global leadership role with the opportunity to create new capabilities in the organization and directly influence customer experience, working-capital performance, and long-term growth.

Why Join Pharma Solutions Now?Pharma Solutions is at a pivotal stage in its evolution. As a growing business within Croda, we are bringing together industry-leading capabilities across pharmaceutical excipients, vaccine adjuvants, innovative lipid delivery systems, and formulation expertise to create a more integrated and scalable global organization. With strong customer demand, ambitious growth plans, and continued investment across the business, this is an opportunity to help shape the future of Pharma Solutions.

This role offers the opportunity to establish the planning, inventory, and customer-service backbone needed to support the next phase of global growth.

What Success Looks Like

Supply Chain Transformation & S&OP Leadership

• Design and implement a globally aligned S&OP / Integrated Business Planning process across Pharma Solutions.
• Create a disciplined monthly planning rhythm connecting commercial demand, manufacturing capability, inventory strategy, and customer commitments.
• Improve forecast quality, planning transparency, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Establish Supply Chain as a strategic business partner and trusted source of operational insight.

Customer Service Reliability & Supply Continuity

• Own global accountability for OTIF performance and customer-facing supply reliability.
• Improve responsiveness, communication, and escalation of customer supply and delivery risks.
• Build resilient continuity plans across sites, logistics networks, and critical raw materials.
• Strengthen customer confidence through realistic, consistent, and transparent supply commitments.

Inventory, Working Capital & Network Excellence

• Establish a global inventory strategy that balances service, risk, cash, and obsolescence.
• Drive working-capital improvement and clear inventory ownership across the global network.
• Define and optimize warehousing, distribution, and logistics strategies, including regulated and temperature-sensitive requirements.
• Strengthen supply-chain visibility, planning systems, and performance through data-driven decision-making.

Builder Mindset & Execution

• Build the global supply-chain capabilities required to support future growth.
• Personally drive implementation and adoption across a complex matrix organization.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and accountability.

Operating Style
Role
This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building capability rather than managing a large organization. The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Build new processes, governance, and ways of working from the ground up.
• Personally drive implementation and adoption across a complex global matrix.
• Influence stakeholders across functions, sites and regions without relying on extensive direct authority.
• Balance strategic thinking with practical execution and a willingness to personally solve problems.
• Remain close to the detail while helping shape the long-term direction of the business.
• Bring deep pharmaceutical supply chain expertise and apply it pragmatically to improve planning,…