Senior Director, Supplier Relationship Management

We're Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it's innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we're dedicated to addressing patients' needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

• Own cross functional coordination of end-to-end operations activities to deliver reliable patient supply, technology transfer, process validation, regulatory approval, commercial launch, market expansion, and lifecycle changes.
• Establish and oversee internal and external governance frameworks, business processes, performance metrics, and management review programs.
• Ensure alignment across stakeholders by communicating priorities, expectations, and performance outcomes effectively.
• Identify potential business and supplier risks, developing proactive mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Drive resolution of manufacturing delivery and external partner business challenges
• Partner with MS&T to maintain process capability, control strategy, process robustness and COGS improvement.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory to ensure sustainable cGMP compliance, inspection readiness, and effective product quality governance.
• Sponsor complex investigations, cross-site technical improvements, and manufacturing readiness activities.
• Engage the culture aligned with Teva Safety, Health, and Environmental policies and procedures
• Identify and create continuous improvement plans for supplier relationships via SRT
• Translate product, supply, and commercial requirements into integrated manufacturing strategies, operating plans, and priorities.
• Establish partnership with BD, Procurement, Sourcing, Launch, Demandand other key stakeholders to ensure operations input to develop and execute long-term supplier strategies, including growth initiatives, portfolio optimization, continuous improvement programs, and supplier transition plans.
• Own integrated engineering, capacity, and capital planning for assigned assets and sponsor major projects required for compliance, reliability, growth, and productivity.
• AOP generation, financial management of budget and COGS reduction for assigned assets.
• Evaluate capacity, sourcing, resilience, and network requirements; serve as external manufacturing SME on Due Diligence teams which provide recommendations for operational or investment decisions.
• Collaborate with Procurement in development of supplier strategy and negotiation approach for ongoing relationships.
• Participate in development of License and Supply Agreements to ensure requirements for effective External Manufacturing oversight for supply continuity are included in the contracts.
• Drive Lean, digital manufacturing, standardization, performance management, and transformation initiatives across assigned external partners.
• Represent external manufacturing operations as SME on internal cross functional teams including but not limited to Product Operation Team, Launch Readiness Team, Alliance Team etc.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while coaching and developing cross-functional team members.
• Build strong executive-level relationships with external suppliers to enhance manufacturing delivery reliability and long-term value creation.
• Individual coaching and development of cross functional team members
• Other projects and duties as required/assigned

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, or related discipline; Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive biologics experience in manufacturing, technical operations, engineering, MSAT, supply chain, or related biologics roles.
• 10+ years leadership experience in biologics manufacturing including external manufacturing/CDMO management. Leadership experience includes people leadership, matrix leadership, program leadership, or ownership of major business deliverables.
• Demonstrated leadership of complex cross-functional organizations, programs or projects from strategy through execution, with high energy and bias for action.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP, manufacturing science, technology transfer, process validation, quality systems, commercial supply, and product lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting regulatory filings, inspections and launch programs.
• Strong financial and business acumen to balance operational, quality, safety, financial and strategic priorities, including but not limited to COGS, S&OP/IBP, capital investment, and business cases.
• Outstanding collaboration, communication, relationship-building skills and conflict management, with proven ability to influence external partners and stakeholders at all levels and in global multicultural matrix organizations.
• Strong change management capabilities and a track record of driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Travel requirements approximately 25%.