Associate Director, Operations Network and Strategy

Responsibilities

• Lead development of end-to-end operations network strategy aligned with enterprise growth objectives.
• Design and optimize manufacturing, distribution, and supply network footprint (internal and external).
• Conduct scenario modeling to evaluate capacity expansion, site selection, outsourcing, nearshoring, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Develop long-term capacity and capital investment roadmaps.
• Build and maintain advanced network models to support demand growth, product lifecycle changes, and geographic expansion.
• Evaluate trade-offs across cost, service, resilience, sustainability, and risk.
• Lead cross-functional S&OP/S&OE inputs related to network capacity and constraints.
• Establish KPIs and dashboards to monitor network performance.
• Identify and lead high-impact cost, productivity, and service improvement initiatives.
• Support make-vs-buy decisions and strategic supplier partnerships.
• Drive network resilience planning, including dual sourcing, inventory strategy, and contingency planning.
• Partner with Digital/IT teams to enhance data, modeling tools, and planning systems.
• Develop business cases for capital investments, site expansions, and strategic initiatives.
• Quantify financial impact of network decisions (NPV, IRR, cost-to-serve analysis).
• Partner with Finance to align operational strategy with financial targets.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on operations strategy.
• Present recommendations to executive leadership and Board-level stakeholders (as applicable).
• Lead and develop a team (Director level may include people leadership; Associate Director may lead through influence).

Requirements

• BS in Business Administration, Supply Chain/Logistics, Engineering, or other field related to the essential duties of this role.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience (7+ years in fast paced cGMP environments; 5+ years in a supply chain leadership role within the pharmaceutical industry.).
• Excellent interpersonal communication, project management, collaboration, and analytical skills.
• Strong MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.
• Experience using Smartsheet or other work management software.
• Proficient generating and presenting operational and financial metrics/KPI’s.
• Thorough understanding of and experience with some aspect of technical operations or CMC.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and influence cross-functional teams not under direct organizational reporting lines to communicate challenging goals and achieve objectives.
• Quick learner with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, maintain focus, and adapt to a variety of challenges.
• Exhibits creativity in adapting to changing situations, development of contingency plans and comfortable with making decisions.

Preferred

• Able to lead and coordinate large, complex strategy projects, with minimal direction.
• Experience developing operations network strategies for a growing global market.