Director, Resilience Lifecycle & Supply Chain Operations
Leads product lifecycle management, launch planning, and supply chain operations oversight across the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Connects global portfolio and supply strategies with country execution to ensure coordinated, compliant, and supply-ready launches and lifecycle changes while maintaining reliable day-to-day performance.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated lifecycle and launch agenda across the UK, Canada, and Australia, covering new products, indications, presentations, regulatory changes, transfers, and discontinuations.
- Translate global portfolio strategies into clear market requirements, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and accountable owners.
- Establish common lifecycle and launch governance, stage gates, and readiness criteria across CMC, Regulatory, Quality, Manufacturing, Commercial, and Supply Chain.
- Lead scenario planning and trade-off decisions across service, inventory, cost, capacity, shelf life, regulatory timing, and supply risk.
- Embed lifecycle and launch plans in long-range planning, IBP, S&OP/S&OE, and country operating plans, converting post-launch learning into reusable standards.
- Provide cross-market oversight of demand, supply, inventory, logistics, distribution, customer service, and Order to Cash interfaces.
- Set common KPIs, operating reviews, and escalation mechanisms to identify and resolve service, inventory, launch, and execution risks early.
- Ensure country teams operate effective S&OP/S&OE routines aligned with global processes and that government, public-health, contractual, and private-market commitments are executable.
- Lead resolution of major cross-functional or cross-market issues, including shortages, constrained supply, quality or regulatory delays, logistics disruption, and inventory exposure.
- Oversee business continuity, crisis preparedness, stockpile readiness, and recovery planning, and strengthen 3PL, distributor, and cold-chain performance with Global Logistics.
- Provide functional leadership, coaching, and performance direction to Country Supply Chain Leaders through the dotted-line relationship.
- Chair the Resilience Lifecycle and Supply Chain Operations Council, consolidating milestones, decisions, risks, and issues across the three markets and escalating material matters as required.
- Act as the senior cross-market Supply Chain partner to Resilience leadership and represent the markets in relevant global lifecycle, launch, planning, and supply chain forums.
- Build capability, succession, and a high-performance, collaborative Resilience Supply Chain community with clear priorities, decision rights, and disciplined follow-through.
- Develop a common Resilience playbook for lifecycle, launch, and supply chain operations, balancing standardization with necessary local variation.
- Partner with Process Line Leaders and Digital teams to simplify work, improve data quality, and deploy analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities that improve visibility and decision-making.
- Maintain a prioritized improvement roadmap addressing process, system, and capability gaps, with clear ownership, milestones, and measurable value.
- Ensure sustained compliance with GMP, GDP, GxP, data-integrity, quality-system, and training requirements.
- Travel periodically to country commercial offices, manufacturing or resilience sites, and key external partners across the UK, Canada, and Australia.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support unique needs.
- Holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support.
- Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown.
- Savings and investments to help plan for the future.
- Location-specific perks and extras.
- Eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award, subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.
Pay
The salary range for this role is $167,000.00 - $300,700.00. An individual’s position within the salary range will be based on factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Schedule
This role follows a 70/30 work model, requiring 70% in-office collaboration to foster innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship.
About the Company
Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world. By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, employees, the environment, and communities.