Senior Director, API Industrial Manufacturing & LCM

• Owns and drives the API industrialization strategy in alignment with commercial priorities and portfolio plans.
• Ensures predictable time‑to‑market, reliable supply for new and existing APIs.
• Provides senior leadership input into new opportunity evaluation collaborating in due diligence processes.
• Accountable for the Life Cycle Management (LCM) strategy of the API portfolio, including robustness, capacity evolution, cost optimization, and second sourcing.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates supply, obsolescence, and margin‑erosion risks over the product life cycle.
• Sponsors and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives to sustain competitiveness and long‑term value.
• Supports the evaluation of manufacturing process changes and deviations, control strategy definition.
• Serves as senior technical and industrial partner to Procurement, R&D, Quality and Supply chain functions.
• Influences portfolio, investment, and prioritization decisions through strong industrial and market insight.
• Ensures API industrialization and life‑cycle activities comply with GMP, regulatory requirements, and customer agreements.
• Anticipates and manages industrial and supply‑chain risks with an enterprise‑level perspective.
• Acts as senior technical contributor during audits.
• Assesses, reduces, mitigates supply‑chain and life‑cycle risks through proactive industrial leadership.

Requirements

• Degree in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related fields (PhD a plus)
• 15+ years of experience in API industrialization, process development, or pharmaceutical operations
• Strong background in GMP environments and API life cycle management
• Strong business oriented mindset with the ability to convert industrial complexity into sustainable commercial advantage
• Good regulatory background
• Competence in HSE topics (Containment, HAZOP, REACH, CLP, safety regulation)
• Understanding of IP landscape (patents, freedom to operate, licensing constraints)

Hard Skills

• API Life Cycle Management
• Process Development
• GMP Environments
• HSE Competence
• Industrial Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering
• Risk Mitigation
• Supply Chain Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Technical Leadership

Soft Skills

• Business Oriented Mindset
• Collaboration
• Influencing Skills
• Analytical Thinking
• Problem Solving