Global Head of CDMO Operations - TAPI
Teva Pharmaceuticals
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Azienda: Teva Pharmaceuticals Santhià
Are you ready to lead and innovate in one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing sectors within TAPI? As the Head of CDMO Operations, you will be at the forefront of our Global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) division, a key pillar driving our standalone journey and strategic growth. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our operations, leveraging your expertise to facilitate growth and operational excellence.
In this pivotal role, you will be our strategic operations expert, guiding our team through expansion and innovation. Your leadership will optimize processes, enhance capabilities, and ensure exceptional value for our clients. If you are passionate about driving growth, fostering innovation, and leading high-performing teams, join us to make a significant impact.
You will build the operational strategy for CDMO business, providing a high-quality, flexible, and competitive platform for contract development and manufacturing projects. Responsibilities include supporting tech transfer, managing projects from RFI/RFP to product launch, ensuring timely delivery, designing tools and processes, coordinating between departments, monitoring progress and deliverables, and collaborating with experts and customers.
How you’ll spend your day
• Design and establish tools and organizational processes to support all needed activities and deliverables in the CDMO team.
• Drive mindset transition from product oriented to service oriented. Engage all operation functions to take active part and support the transition process.
• Enhance cross company collaboration and improve organizational processes and routines. Establish strong and collaborative relationships with different interphases across the network for example: RD, Commercial, production, finance, procurement and QA), work in collaboration work in alignment and support TAPI strategy.
• Support evaluation of new CDMO opportunities (RFI/RFP)- facilitated complex evaluations of new opportunities at manufacturing sites, involving enhanced capacity, new technology and capabilities. Work in collaboration with all stakeholders, considering aspects such as financial, compliance, regulatory.
• Support the CDMO team to optimize the site selection as well as operational batch strategy to provide a fit for purpose solution to customer needs during the RFQ and project execution phases. Â
• Define KP Is, monitor and assure meeting targets. Create and lead Ops strategy to supports projects milestones in alignment to customer’s needs. Assure RFT and adherence to plan.
• Work in close collaboration with production sites and global functions to have continuous improvement plan in alignment with customer strategy to assure robust and manufacturing process, meetings project milestones and KP Is. Â
• Provide professional technical support, challenge assumptions and come up with alternative solutions. Work in collaboration with SM Es from different fields.
• Support and enhance building capabilities across TAPI networks, Knowledge sharing, trainings and coaching on technical, managerial and mindset aspects concerning proving CDMO services and interactions with customers from Operation side.
• Create and lead risks and gaps management methodology in operation. Proactive and creative approach to have optimized solutions. Create and execute mitigation plan to be able to meet projects targets.
• Establish operational costing methodology to demonstrate the manufacturing costs and any related activities supporting customer needs during the RFQ process Provide detailed cost estimates for all operational activities with key assumptions. Â
• Communication with customers, commercial and operation to understand customer needs and targets and come up with proposed operational plan.
• Act as Operational subject matter expert in customer meetings to help the selling process by providing knowledge of the global network and offering solutions to customers’ needs.
• Create and manage a data bases to have full view and governance of technical capabilities in the network. Support commercial with needed data for marketing requirements.
Who are you & what will you bring
Required Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or related discipline required ( Master’s preferred). MBA is advantageous.
• 10+ years with proven history in chemical and pharmaceutical industry in companies providing CDMO/CMO services for Drug substance (API).
• Experience in drug development in mid/large pharma is a plus
• Strong knowledge and experience working in operations under cGMP for both early clinical phase as well as commercial development
• Previous experience in process development and Process industrialization, process engineering, scale up in manufacturing environment.
• Experience working cross functionally in CDMO projects for both project costing and project execution
Required skills:
• Strong leadership skills, ability to lead and governanceÂ
• Excellent technical skills, highly professional and experienced, creative thinking
• Service and customer-oriented mindset. Sense of urgency.
• Agile and creative thinking and mindset.
• Team player and able to build and maintain relationships both internal and external.
• Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated high communication skills.
• Ability to lead cross functional working processes. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
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