Director, Network Supply Planning

Role Overview

• Lead the Network Supply Planning Team for the Alexion RBDU, setting clear direction for the team and ensuring supply planning activities support business priorities, patient needs, regulatory requirements, and market-specific considerations.
• Provide strong people leadership to the global network supply planning team by building capability, driving performance, coaching talent, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Own the end-to-end network supply planning strategy and execution, ensuring robust supply plans are in place across the global network to deliver reliable product supply, appropriate inventory levels, and effective capacity utilisation.
• Translate strategic business priorities into operational supply plans, aligning mid to long-range objectives with tactical and short-term execution across manufacturing sites, external partners, and distribution networks.
• Establish and embed best-in-class supply planning standards, processes, and governance to improve consistency, transparency, decision-making quality, and compliance across the network.
• Lead risk management and disruption mitigation activities within supply planning, identifying vulnerabilities early and ensuring proactive plans are developed and executed to minimise impact to patients and the business.
• Ensure effective exception management and escalation, making informed decisions in complex situations while balancing patient supply, financial impact, operational feasibility, and compliance requirements.
• Enhance & lead the global Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) process, ensuring strong integration between demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and business priorities across the network. Evaluate trade-offs, resolve imbalances, and enable timely decisions related to supply constraints, prioritisation, allocation, and network performance.
• Monitor and report on critical performance indicators such as service levels, backlog, on-time delivery, inventory value, months on hand, plan attainment, and supply reliability, using insights to drive accountability and performance improvement.
• Drive data-led operational decision-making by leveraging planning insights, supply scenarios, and performance trends to guide actions and support effective issue resolution.
• Support financial planning processes by providing robust supply inputs for budget cycles, business reviews, and resource planning, ensuring operational plans are aligned to financial commitments.
• Partner closely with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across regulatory, quality, finance, internal / external manufacturing, product management, technical operations, and logistics to ensure aligned planning and execution.
• Build strong and trusted stakeholder relationships across the organisation, enabling effective collaboration, alignment on priorities & rapid resolution of supply issues.
• Drive continuous improvement & digitalisation across supply planning processes, identifying opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce inefficiencies, improve responsiveness, and strengthen planning accuracy.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in biopharmaceutical operations, global supply chain, supply planning, network operations, or related disciplines within a complex, global, and highly regulated environment, typically gained over 10+ years.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in supply planning, product supply, network planning, or end-to-end supply chain management, with a strong track record of delivering results across global and matrixed organisations.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end product supply across manufacturing, external supply, distribution, and market delivery, with the ability to manage trade-offs across service, inventory, capacity, cost, and compliance.
• Experience in supply risk management, supply continuity planning, network strategy, launch readiness, or product lifecycle planning is strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of operational risk management principles, methodologies, and tools, including experience leading or contributing to complex risk assessments involving multiple stakeholders and functions.
• Proven ability to lead through influence and drive alignment across complex organisational interfaces, with success in working cross-functionally across supply chain manufacturing, quality, regulatory, finance, commercial, and external partners.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving capability, with the ability to interpret complex data, assess network and supply risks, and translate insights into practical mitigation and execution plans.
• Strong decision-making capability in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, with the judgment to balance short-term operational needs and long-term business objectives.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging senior leaders, leading governance discussions, and facilitating cross-functional decision-making forums.
• Experience establishing governance, performance metrics, and operating models to improve supply chain effectiveness, enhance visibility, and drive business performance.
• Experience developing, monitoring, and driving global KPIs to assess and improve supply planning performance, network health, service outcomes, inventory management, and risk mitigation effectiveness.
• Track record of driving continuous improvement across processes, tools, reporting, and ways of working to enhance consistency, transparency, decision-making, and organisational resilience.
• Working knowledge of GMP, quality systems, and regulatory requirements, with demonstrated commitment to compliance, inspection readiness, record management, and continuous improvement of quality-relevant processes within area of responsibility.
• Advanced familiarity with digital planning, reporting, and project management tools, including platforms such as Smartsheet or similar systems, is desirable.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible work hours
• Professional development opportunities
• Paid time off