Director DDS Business Enablement & Implementation

Job Purpose

Drive the design and delivery of multiple, complex, high-impact initiatives that enhance Drug Development and Supply (DDS) performance, strengthen ways of working, and support organizational readiness for strategic change.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Program Design & Delivery: Shape, scope, and design major improvement and transformation initiatives aligned to enterprise priorities, ensuring clear outcomes, governance, and success measures.

• Enterprise Change Leadership: Lead and engage in structured change approaches (Prosci or equivalent) for Drug Development and Supply (DDS)-wide initiatives, ensuring adoption, behavior change, and long-term embedding of new processes or capabilities.

• Performance Enablement: Identify business performance gaps and define targeted interventions—process improvements, capability uplift, or new ways of working—to enable higher-quality delivery.

• Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to functional leads and function-aligned CMC Performance Leads, ensuring alignment, clarity, and informed decision-making.

• Process Stewardship: Drive the standardization, optimization, and embedding of business processes, ensuring consistency and high-quality execution across Drug Development and Supply (DDS).

• Capability Building: Support development of organizational capabilities through targeted learning and skill-building initiatives.

• Risk & Issue Anticipation: Identify potential risks to delivery or adoption and propose proactive mitigation strategies.

Basic Qualification

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in program management, business transformation, operational excellence, or organizational change within complex, matrixed environments.
• Experience designing, scoping, and delivering cross-functional initiatives, including defining outcomes, business value, governance, and performance measures.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional leaders in biopharma R&D or Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) on decision-making for programs or initiatives.
• Experience utilizing productivity and collaboration tools.

Preferred Qualification

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field; or equivalent by experience.
• Experience leading enterprise-level transformation programs in biopharma R&D, preferably CMC.
• Experience of Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) processes, capabilities, or manufacturing technologies.
• Experience in translating complex programs into clear and actionable insights through communication and stakeholder management.
• Experience acting as a chief of staff of a large department or company (300+ people).
• Consulting experience (such as BCG, McKinsey) within biopharma.
• Strong experience applying structured change leadership / management methodologies (e.g., Prosci/ADKAR) to drive adoption and behavioral change.
• Experience driving process standardization and optimization, especially in regulated or highly cross-functional environments.
• Experience designing and facilitating capability-building or organizational development programs.
• Highly adaptable to new technologies.