About the position

What You’ll Do

Influence supply chain and network strategy

Quantify resilience across the portfolio, including protection levels and the cost/benefit of mitigation levers (e.g., inventory, dual sourcing, excess capacity, insurance).

Provide decision support and trade-off insights that shape network design, sourcing strategies, investment allocation, and lifecycle decisions.

Identify where to dial resilience up or down, prioritizing differentiated investments.

Build robust business cases and secure approval for significant resilience investments.

Transform business continuity for Intelligent Supply and Operations 2030

Lead the transformation of BCP policy, processes, tools, and ways of working—moving to a risk-based, lifecycle-aligned approach.

Implement a streamlined Product BCP process supported by modern digital solutions; replace BRACE with compliant, intuitive systems that provide decision support and leverage AI in line with a self-healing supply chain.

Design and deploy cross-brand continuity processes to manage dependencies across products and markets.

Benchmark externally to elevate AstraZeneca’s resilience capabilities and visibility.

Own and govern end-to-end BCM processes

Serve as Business Process Owner across product, site, and functional BCM; lead multiple process networks and steering bodies.

Govern the annual BCP cycle (BIA, BCP, testing, SCAIR, EU SPP), ensuring data quality, timeliness, transparency, and clear articulation of residual risk and investment needs.

Address 2025 audit actions through strengthened governance, process improvements, and system controls.

Develop and maintain user-friendly, compliant digital solutions that document decisions, exceptions, and approvals.

Drive continuous improvement and maturity using lean principles.

Impact You will embed risk and trade-off insights into everyday decisions so AstraZeneca delivers medicines reliably—by design, not by chance. Success in this role relies on leading cross-functional project teams and champion networks across Operations.

People Leadership

Leads project teams and matrixed networks across Operations (direct and indirect leadership).

Scope includes matrix management of stakeholders and process champions; formal line management may be required depending on team structure.

Global Scope

Operates across multiple countries with a global remit, collaborating with teams across AstraZeneca markets and manufacturing sites.

Why AstraZeneca

Be part of shaping the future of Operations here at AstraZeneca. Be part of shaping the next phase of Operations' journey towards the 2025 strategy. Build on our foundations of high performance through agility, responsiveness, reliability, and efficiency to deliver our new modalities and complex pipeline to market at speed. Backed by a supportive team, be part of accelerating our operational excellence with innovations in cutting-edge science, Lean ways of working, and fast-changing digital technologies.

Responsibilities

Influence supply chain and network strategy
Quantify resilience across the portfolio, including protection levels and the cost/benefit of mitigation levers (e.g., inventory, dual sourcing, excess capacity, insurance).
Provide decision support and trade-off insights that shape network design, sourcing strategies, investment allocation, and lifecycle decisions.
Identify where to dial resilience up or down, prioritizing differentiated investments.
Build robust business cases and secure approval for significant resilience investments.
Lead the transformation of BCP policy, processes, tools, and ways of working—moving to a risk-based, lifecycle-aligned approach.
Implement a streamlined Product BCP process supported by modern digital solutions; replace BRACE with compliant, intuitive systems that provide decision support and leverage AI in line with a self-healing supply chain.
Design and deploy cross-brand continuity processes to manage dependencies across products and markets.
Benchmark externally to elevate AstraZeneca’s resilience capabilities and visibility.
Serve as Business Process Owner across product, site, and functional BCM; lead multiple process networks and steering bodies.
Govern the annual BCP cycle (BIA, BCP, testing, SCAIR, EU SPP), ensuring data quality, timeliness, transparency, and clear articulation of residual risk and investment needs.
Address 2025 audit actions through strengthened governance, process improvements, and system controls.
Develop and maintain user-friendly, compliant digital solutions that document decisions, exceptions, and approvals.
Drive continuous improvement and maturity using lean principles.
Leads project teams and matrixed networks across Operations (direct and indirect leadership).
Operates across multiple countries with a global remit, collaborating with teams across AstraZeneca markets and manufacturing sites.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
10+ years of independent, hands-on experience in supply chain management.
Proven expertise in supply strategy development, enterprise thinking, influencing, and relationship management.
Experience in pharmaceutical operations.
Demonstrated success working cross-functionally and presenting to senior leaders.
Financial acumen, including product costing and business case development.
Experience in risk management, business continuity management, and resilience.

Nice-to-haves

Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
Experience analyzing and optimizing supply chain design across inventory, capacity, and risk.
Proficiency with resilience and network strategy frameworks.
Experience applying lean principles.
Exposure to leading-edge digital and AI-enabled supply chain solutions.
Financial acumen, including product costing and business case development.
Experience in risk management, business continuity management, and resilience.

Benefits

Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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Global Resilience Strategy and Transformation Senior Director

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