Director, Value Chain Product Leader, Global Supply Chain

About the role

The Value Chain Product Leader is accountable for designing, operating, and continuously improving a best in class, end to end value chain that reliably connects patients to medicines. This role provides focused, end-to-end accountability for the product value chain within a defined scope, ensuring alignment to product strategy, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the design, performance, and continuous improvement of the product value chain, aligned to enterprise strategy and standards.
• Ensure reliable supply of quality products to patients across clinical and commercial stages.
• Deliver products to markets in accordance with defined service and lead time targets.
• Drive the product lifecycle management roadmap, optimizing lead time, cost, and resilience.
• Define and execute product and network strategies, including flow of goods, SKU strategy, and inventory strategy.
• Identify and champion strategic investments required to support growth, resilience, and long-term sustainability.
• Proactively identify, assess, and communicate risks impacting product quality, compliance, patient supply, and business continuity.
• Lead mitigation strategies and escalation for actionable supply risks, including patient-level stockout scenarios.
• Own business continuity, supply chain efficiency, and agility plans to ensure program objectives are met.
• Own inventory health, key supply chain cost drivers, and trade-offs between service, cost, and risk.
• Enable data-driven, risk-based decision-making across the value chain.
• Serve as the primary voice of the product in relevant business forums, including brand reviews, regional reviews, and portfolio governance.
• Define the target operating model for the product value chain, including roles, processes, and decision rights across Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and external partners.
• Build strong strategic partnerships with Commercial, Clinical, Technical Operations, and Enterprise functions.
• Leadership responsibility: Provide coaching and development to team members on product and value chain requirements, monitor performance against deliverables, and provide feedback to functional management on individual performance and development needs.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BS/BSc) in life sciences, engineering, supply chain, or business administration, with 8–12+ years in materials management/production planning/scheduling, 5–10+ years in GMP/GCP compliant pharmaceutical operations, and 2–5+ years leading global, cross-functional, matrixed teams.
• Strong supply chain and value chain management expertise, ERP expertise (Oracle or SAP preferred), pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks (GMP, ICH), risk and project/program management.
• Demonstrated capability to assess issues across Regulatory, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing perspectives.
• Executive-level communication, influence-based leadership, cross-cultural/global execution, strategic and operational thinking, continuous improvement and process excellence mindset.
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

Nice to Have

• MBA (Supply Chain, Finance, or Business Operations preferred)
• APICS or equivalent supply chain certification
• Lever / DMAIC certification (Green Belt or higher)
• PMP or equivalent project management certification
• Biopharmaceutical operations experience
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Advanced regulatory and GMP expertise, including ICH Q8-Q12