Director, Manufacturing Supply Chain Operations

• Location 221 CRESCENT ST STE 103A,Waltham, MA, ,United States
• Base Pay $ - $ / Year
• Employee Type FT Exempt
• Required Degree 4 Year Degree
• Manage Others No

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 Vice President, External Manufacturing & Supply Chain, the Director, Manufacturing & Supply Operations will lead business operations activities that support Technical Operations, including contract negotiation and lifecycle management, budget planning and roll-up, and business reviews. Operating with significant autonomy, this individual contributor role will impact through matrix leadership, vendor and stakeholder influence, and ownership of business processes that support program, financial, and operational decision-making across Technical Operations.

This role is based in our Waltham, MA headquarters. Our office-based employees are required to work in the office three (3) days a week.

• Provide matrix leadership by influencing internal stakeholders, external vendors, and cross-functional partners to align operational decision-making by translating program priorities, business planning, financial assumptions, risk trade-offs, and decision-making inputs without direct people management authority.
• Lead contract planning, negotiation support, execution, and lifecycle management for Technical Operations
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and functional stakeholders to ensure contracts include appropriate business terms, deliverables, governance expectations, performance metrics, budget assumptions, and compliance requirements
• Build productive relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders to support effective negotiation, clear accountability, timely execution, and practical resolution of business and operational issues
• Contribute to Technical Operations budget management processes, including annual planning inputs, forecast updates, purchase order oversight, invoice review, accrual support, variance analysis, and consolidated budget roll-ups for leadership review
• Orchestrate governance meetings and business reviews, ensuring clear agendas, decision logs, action tracking, risk escalation, and follow-through on commitments across internal and external stakeholders
• Support vendor selection, onboarding, and transition activities by coordinating business requirements, operational assumptions, proposal comparisons, contracting needs, budget impacts, governance expectations, and stakeholder decision-making inputs
• Identify opportunities to improve vendor value, operating efficiency, cost management, contract structure, governance discipline, and cross-functional ways of working across the Technical Operations supplier network

• Requires 12+ years of progressive biotechnology or pharmaceutical experience, including substantial experience manufacturing and supply chain, and related GMP operations
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Engineering, or a related discipline required
• Demonstrated Director-level ability to participate with senior management in establishing strategic plans and objectives, translate functional strategy into operational plans, and ensure effective execution across internal teams and external partners
• Mastery of the core functional area with strong understanding of how Supply Chain, External Manufacturing, CMC, Quality, and Regulatory intersect to support company goals and competitive positioning
• Proven ability to…