Supply Chain Project Director - Make a meaningful impact on people’s lives by delivering life-changing medicines!

Are you ready to lead supply projects from initiation to completion, ensuring that business requirements are effectively captured and managed? Build unrivaled capabilities in a place that promotes learning agility and offers development opportunities. We never stand still so you’ll have the chance to constantly grow your abilities, skills, and knowledge. Here we are a combination of challenging and interesting work, in a dynamic, energizing, and inspiring environment.

At AstraZeneca, our Operations team is driven by a big ambition: to deliver more medicines to patients, quicker and more affordably. We are committed to making people's lives better and constantly evolving our work with Lean, groundbreaking science, digitalization, and sustainable practices. As a Project Director, you will be responsible for leading Supply projects/programs on time and budget, developing project plans, managing relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders, and ensuring that project teams adopt quality and compliance standards.

External Supply and Manufacturing (ESM) supports the Operations strategy by establishing robust, stable processes and standards with our external suppliers across the world. We handle the sourcing, planning, and supply of all our externally manufactured products (small and large molecule) into the AstraZeneca network. We currently work with ca 200 suppliers across 28 countries handling ca 2000 Product SKU’s with a procurement value of over $1 billion. We also support the introduction of new and in-licensed products.

What you will do:

• Implementing new and redesigned pharmaceutical supply chains globally

• Leading global projects across multiple organizations, geographies, and business areas. This role will provide the opportunity to interact and collaborate with a wide group of partners including senior management, external suppliers, AZ operations, finance, technical, quality, and CMC teams as well as counterparts in IT, development, and commercial teams to deliver these projects and impactful changes

• Delivering projects/programs involving Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMO); such as establishing external commercial supply for new products, expanded supply for existing products, business continuity planning, and projects responding to new legislation

• Developing, following, and agreeing on project plans including activities, resources, costs, roles, responsibilities, and quality assurance for supply chain projects

• Recommending revisions to projects as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

• Managing day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope to ensure timely completion of the project and meeting deadlines

• Building and leading project teams while communicating roles and responsibilities

• Ensuring that impact and changes resulting from projects/programs are effectively communicated to the business

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor-level degree in a scientific, engineering, or business field

• Minimum 7 years of program/project management experience in the pharma industry including leading significant supply chain change projects

• Biologics manufacturing/supply chain experience

• Technical experience across the one of following areas – Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, Drug Substances, Formulated Product, Finished Pack, Devices and Critical Materials, Technology Transfers, New Product Launches

• Well-developed organizational and interpersonal skills

• Experience working with third-party suppliers and contract manufacturing organizations

• Experience leading cross-functional project teams across external suppliers and internal functions

Key to this role is the ability to identify and handle significant risks, develop mitigation plans, bring clarity and solutions to complex technical situations with high ambiguity, and lead the delivery of several diverse projects at the same time. You will possess excellent communication and influencing skills, be able to give clear clarity and direction and hold people accountable for time-critical activities. You will be able to balance business needs and costs for a range of issues across the lifecycle of a project.

Why AstraZeneca

Our multigenerational workforce is open and respectful. We share knowledge to expand our minds and explore new areas. We are curious problem-solvers who thrive in an intense environment. At AstraZeneca, you will have the opportunity to work across our complex pipeline while being supported by personal commitment from your colleagues. We offer multiple global career opportunities with great rewards for those who embrace diverse opportunities.

Ready to make a positive impact in a team where it means more, apply now!

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