Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations

About the role

The Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations drives disciplined execution and momentum across Supply Network Strategy initiatives by structuring work, sequencing decisions, and ensuring consistent follow-through. This role operates as the execution integrator for Network Strategy—turning strategic intent into actionable plans, decision-ready materials, and measurable progress. It sits at the intersection of network strategy formulation and execution, ensuring that strategic intent is pressure-tested, sequenced, and translated into decisions that strengthen supply continuity and resilience.

The role partners with the Network Strategy Head to drive senior alignment, prioritization, and arbitration. It is a high-leverage individual contributor position focused on methodical execution in a complex, cross-functional environment, owning the structure, sequencing, and execution of Network Strategy priorities so leadership can focus on alignment and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Initiative Structuring & Execution
  • Translate Network Strategy priorities into sequenced decisions, milestones, and execution checkpoints
  • Decompose complex initiatives (e.g., site selection, sourcing strategy, network expansion) into executable workstreams
  • Explicitly identify decision dependencies, sequencing constraints, and gating milestones across initiatives
• Decision Preparation & Enablement
  • Partner with Network Strategy leadership to shape strategic problem framing, including hypothesis development, decision criteria, and tradeoff articulation
  • Facilitate preparation of decision-ready materials for senior leadership, including clear problem statements, options and tradeoffs, and recommended paths forward
  • Distinguish between items requiring inform, discussion, endorsement, or decision
  • Support the Head of Network Strategy in driving timely decision closure
• Momentum & Follow-Through
  • Track actions, commitments, and milestones across Network Strategy initiatives, ensuring owners and expectations are clearly identified
  • Surface execution risks early and escalate with proposed options
• Network Strategy Forum Enablement
  • Facilitate Network Strategy Forum, shaping agendas to emphasize progress, outcomes, and decisions
  • Ensure pre-reads are structured, focused, and decision-oriented
  • Capture outcomes and next steps clearly to avoid re-cycling topics
  • Synthesize complex technical and operational inputs into clear, concise narratives
  • Prepare and own summaries for senior leaders highlighting progress, blockers, and risks

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience; Master’s preferred
• Practical understanding of pharma/biotech manufacturing and supply chain flows, including CMC, regulatory, and quality considerations
• Comfortable operating across technical, regulatory, and operational domains without being an expert
• Working knowledge of supply chain and network design considerations
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders
• Excellent written and verbal communication at a senior-leader level
• Proven ability to drive progress without formal authority
• Ability to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions credibly
• Highly organized, disciplined, and reliable
• Comfortable pushing for clarity and closure with more senior-level team members, with appropriate sponsorship

Pay

U.S. pay range: $162,800.00 – $220,200.00 (full-time base salary at time of posting). Base pay determined by relevant experience, skills, and education. Eligible for annual short-term incentive (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and long-term incentive (e.g., equity).

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Lifestyle reimbursement program
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• 401(k) with generous company match
• Paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks
• Generous family resources and leave

About the company

Alnylam is the leader in RNAi therapeutics—a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and continues to pioneer new possibilities. The company’s deep pipeline and late-stage programs reflect core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture, and commitment to people. Alnylam is a globally recognized top employer with an authentic, inclusive culture where breakthrough thinking thrives.