Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is a leader in RNAi therapeutics, and they are seeking an Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations. This role is responsible for driving execution across Supply Network Strategy initiatives, ensuring strategic intent is translated into actionable plans and measurable progress.
Responsibilities
- Translate Network Strategy priorities into sequenced decisions, milestones, and execution checkpoints
- Decompose complex initiatives (e.g., site selection, sourcing strategy, network expansion) into executable workstreams
- Explicitly identify decision dependencies, sequencing constraints, and gating milestones across initiatives
- Partner with Network Strategy leadership to shape strategic problem framing not just limited to downstream execution, but also including hypothesis development, decision criteria, and tradeoff articulation
- Facilitate preparation of decision‑ready materials for senior leadership, including clear problem statements, options and tradeoffs, and recommended paths forward
- Distinguish between items requiring inform, discussion, endorsement, or decision
- Support the Head of Network Strategy in driving timely decision closure
- Track actions, commitments, and milestones across Network Strategy initiatives, ensuring owners and expectations are clearly identified
- Surface execution risks early and escalate with proposed options
- Facilitate Network Strategy Forum including shaping agendas to emphasize progress, outcomes, and decisions
- Ensure pre‑reads are structured, focused, and decision‑oriented
- Capture outcomes and next steps clearly to avoid re‑cycling topics
- Synthesize complex technical and operational inputs into clear, concise narratives
- Prepare and own summaries for senior leaders highlighting progress, blockers, and risks
Skills
- Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience
- Practical understanding of pharma/biotech manufacturing and supply chain flows, including CMC, regulatory and quality considerations
- Must be comfortable operating across technical, regulatory, and operational domains, without being an expert
- Working knowledge of supply chain and network design considerations
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders
- Excellent written and verbal communication at a senior‑leader level
- Proven ability to drive progress without formal authority
- Ability to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions credibly
- Highly organized, disciplined, and reliable
- Comfortable pushing for clarity and closure with more senior level team members, with appropriate sponsorship
- Masters preferred
Benefits
- Annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive)
- Annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity)
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- A lifestyle reimbursement program
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- 401(k) with a generous company match
- Paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks
- Generous family resources and leave
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