Industrial Operations Director (Healthcare)

🔄 Transformation & Culture Shift

• Lead a wide-reaching operational and cultural transformation to evolve ways of working, decision-making, and collaboration.
• Champion lean thinking, transparency, and cross-functional ownership across the value chain.
• Build alignment between corporate objectives and site-level execution with an emphasis on empowerment, continuous learning, and high performance.

🏭 End-to-End Industrial Operations

• Oversee all plant operations ensuring alignment with regulatory, quality, and performance standards.
• Drive operational KPIs including yield, downtime, safety, and overall efficiency.
• Elevate site performance through digitalization, automation, and industrial excellence programs.

🌍 Strategic Sourcing & Externalization

• Build a global sourcing strategy, including identifying CDMO/CMO partners in competitive markets.
• Manage supplier qualification, compliance, and performance monitoring processes.
• Balance quality, lead time, and cost in vendor negotiations and portfolio development.

📦 Supply Chain, Planning & S&OP

• Lead integrated demand and supply planning processes to support business growth and service reliability.
• Build a robust S&OP process in collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Finance teams.
• Optimize inventory, production capacity, and market responsiveness.

🚛 Logistics & Distribution

• Ensure seamless coordination between internal flows (warehouse, raw materials, production) and external logistics partners (3PLs).
• Improve delivery speed, traceability, and customer service metrics.

📊 Financial Governance of Operations

• Monitor industrial performance through detailed analysis of margins, costs, and capex effectiveness.
• Develop strategic business cases to inform make-or-buy decisions and investment prioritization.