Senior Director, Value Delivery Lead, Technical Operations

• →Gross margin, cost of goods and Finance-validated financial benefits, net of implementation and sustainment costs.  
• →Inventory to cash, including DIOH, working capital, lead time, expiry, waste and supply reliability, as relevant to the pursuit.
• →End-to-end speed, including development, technical transfer, release, planning or operational cycle time, as relevant to the pursuit.
• →Patient supply, quality, safety, right-first-time performance, capacity and service outcomes, without displacing line accountability.
• →Pursuit quality and execution: baseline confidence, gate readiness, delivery against chartered scope and timing, adoption, sustained performance, transparent risk reporting and completeness of benefit evidence.
• →Charter targets, benefit measures, sustainment periods and monitoring intervals are agreed with business owners and Finance. The Value Lead is accountable for the integrated pursuit plan, delivery coordination and outcome evidence; business owners remain accountable for operating results and adoption, and Finance retains authority for financial validation, recognition, attribution and recurring target credit.

Travel to manufacturing sites, functional locations and relevant external partners, including internationally, for discovery, pursuit of delivery, business acceptance and sustainment reviews. Travel follows the scope and needs of assigned pursuits rather than a permanent site assignment.

Note: This description is not intended to be all-inclusive, or a limitation of the duties of the position. It is intended to describe the general nature of the job that may include other duties as assumed or assigned.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Ireland Safety Responsibility Support the organisation’s commitment to environmental protection, injury prevention, and continual improvement of EHS management systems. Actively contribute to a safe and environmentally responsible workplace by identifying hazards, reporting incidents and participating in EHS initiatives and training.
Ireland Safety Responsibility

Support the organisation’s commitment to environmental protection, injury prevention, and continual improvement of EHS management systems. Actively contribute to a safe and environmentally responsible workplace by identifying hazards, reporting incidents and participating in EHS initiatives and training.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, supply chain, business or a related discipline.  
• Senior pharmaceutical or biotechnology operational experience across manufacturing, quality, supply chain, technical development or engineering, with credibility to work across site, functional and network leadership.
• Demonstrated delivery of complex, cross-functional improvements with quantified value, named owners, committed resources, effective adoption and sustained outcomes after handover.
• Strong financial and business-case fluency, including baselines, sensitivities, full costs, benefit methods and attribution, together with the ability to manage competing objectives and dependencies through matrix leadership.
• Working knowledge of GMP, change control, validation and data integrity, with judgement to engage Quality and DTA early and translate operational needs into clear requirements, controls and acceptance criteria.
• Requires a min of 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, regulated manufacturing, supply chain, or MS&T environments. With a minimum of 7 years of experience leading operational excellence, transformation, business process, performance analytics, or strategic improvement projects

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or an equivalent demonstrated record of personally delivered, sustained improvement.  
• Experience designing or improving end-to-end processes across sites, functions or external partners, such as plan-to-produce, technical transfer, inventory, capacity, deviation or release flows.
• Experience delivering digitally enabled operational change through analytics, AI, process mining, automation or enterprise/manufacturing systems in partnership with accountable technology and Quality teams.
• Experience across sites or functions in more than one country. An advanced degree in a relevant discipline is an advantage.

• Evidence-led collaborative influence: constructs clear cases, translates complex trade-offs into clear choices for senior leaders, challenges assumptions respectfully, negotiates cross-functional commitments and maintains trust through difficult decisions.
• Analytical and financial judgement: explains uncertainty, tests benefit logic, distinguishes local improvement from total-system value and reports shortfalls honestly.
• Patient-centered systems thinking and change leadership protects quality, safety and reliable supply while building capability, adoption and ownership that survive the pursuit team’s release.