Job Description:

Senior Manager, Product Portfolio and Network Strategy

Titusville, NJ | Cork, Ireland | Beerse, Belgium | Zug, Switzerland

Innovative Medicines Supply Chain, is recruiting for a Senior Manager of Product Portfolio and Network Strategy, Drug Product to help us realize Innovative Medicine’s vision to Create a Future Where Disease is a Thing of the Past! We supply hope and pioneer solutions to deliver better health!

Innovative Medicines Supply Chain, a global organization responsible for supplying medicines to markets around the world. With Quality as their primary focus, this group strives to provide access and affordability through innovation and collaboration with their R&D and Commercial partners to deliver life changing solutions for patients in need.

Innovative Medicines Supply Chain, are dedicated to addressing and solving the most important unmet medical needs of our time, including in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, infectious disease, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Driven by our commitment to patients, we develop sustainable, integrated healthcare solutions by working side-by-side with healthcare stakeholders, based on partnerships of trust and transparency.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Product Portfolio & Network Strategy (PPNS) – Drug Product to build and govern the single source of truth that powers strategic network decisions.

This is a strategic enabler role (not operational) accountable for the data layer, analytics tools, and standardized frameworks that improve the speed, consistency, and credibility of enterprise network strategy decisions across Drug Product.

You will architect and continuously improve the data and analytics backbone (capacity, cost, external partnerships) and translate complex network analytics into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders—enabling resilient, cost‑effective, future‑ready network strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Ownership & Governance

• Build and maintain the authoritative network data layer (internal capacities by modality/scale; external/CDMO capacity, commitments, and constraints; directional cost curves..)

• Establish and enforce data quality, lineage, and governance standards to ensure decision integrity.

• Own the Decision Support Tool dataset and visualization layer (e.g., dashboards) used by the PPNS leadership team.

• Analytics & Tooling

• Design, standardize, and maintain reusable strategic assessment tools that replace fragmented, one‑off analyses and fragile Excel models.

• Create scenario backbones and templates (e.g., capacity stress tests, network fragility and single‑point‑of‑failure scans) to drive consistent, repeatable assessments.

• Continuously improve analytical frameworks and digital collaboration platforms to promote cross‑functional alignment and speed.

• Decision Enablement: Provide robust analytics and insights to support strategic decisions

• Ensure decision quality through data integrity and standardized methodologies

• Supports in preparing for key governance and stakeholder sessions

• Create and deliver senior level presentations to Product Portfolio and Network Strategy Leadership on status of program, risks, improvement and next steps.

• Scenario Planning & Network Strategy Execution

• Lead network assessments across internal and external options using the PPNS network strategy process.

• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to define requirements and scope, develop scenarios. Understand complex data analysis, problems and focus on bringing issues to resolution, influencing and raising as necessary to meet timelines. Includes clarifying and defining program requirements / scope for cross-functional problems.

• Translate complex analytics into clear, actionable recommendations with quantified impacts (cost, risk, service, flexibility).

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, business management, or supply chain is required

Experience and Skills (Required):

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Planning, Operations, Logistics, Supply Chain, or related functions.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and data visualization (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

• Strong grasp of cost modeling, scenario planning, and decision frameworks.

• Proven ability to design and maintain standardized tools and templates.

• Data integrity mindset with attention to governance and reproducibility.

• Demonstrated strategic thinking and problem‑solving, with the ability to simplify complexity.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to collaborate and influence across senior stakeholders in a matrix environment.

• Ability to prioritize multiple initiatives and lead interdependent workstreams across teams.

Experience and Skills (Preferred):

• Industry experience in Pharmaceutical or Biopharmaceutical

• Experience with financial tools routinely used in business case valuation (e.g., NPV analysis).

• Experience developing and delivering program presentations for senior-level stakeholders to advise on historical and future program status is preferred.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent communication, and presentation skills is preferred

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms is required.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a cross-functional teams is preferred.

• Strong customer focus (internal & external), including development and management of stakeholders is required.

• Ability to influence without authority at all levels including senior leaderships required.

• Digital proficiency is preferred.

Other:

• Requires fluency in English (oral and written)

• Requires the ability and flexibility to accommodate US, EMEA, and APAC work schedules when needed

• Requires ability to travel domestically up to 10% of the time

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