* Owns and drives the API industrialization strategy in alignment with commercial priorities and portfolio plans. * Ensures predictable time?to?market, reliable supply for new and existing APIs. * Provides senior leadership input into new opportunity evaluation collaborating in due diligence processes. * Accountable for the Life Cycle Management (LCM) strategy of the API portfolio, including robustness, capacity evolution, cost optimization, and second sourcing. * Proactively identifies and mitigates supply, obsolescence, and margin?erosion risks over the product life cycle. * Sponsors and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives to sustain competitiveness and long?term value. * Supports the evaluation of manufacturing process changes and deviations, control strategy definition. * Serves as senior technical and industrial partner to Procurement, R&D;, Quality and Supply chain functions. * Influences portfolio, investment, and prioritization decisions through strong industrial and market insight. * Ensures API industrialization and life?cycle activities comply with GMP, regulatory requirements, and customer agreements. * Anticipates and manages industrial and supply?chain risks with an enterprise?level perspective.



* Acts as senior technical contributor during audits. * Assesses, reduces, mitigates supply?chain and life?cycle risks through proactive industrial leadership. Requirements * Degree in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related fields (PhD a plus) * 15+ years of experience in API industrialization, process development, or pharmaceutical operations * Strong background in GMP environments and API life cycle management * Strong business oriented mindset with the ability to convert industrial complexity into sustainable commercial advantage * Good regulatory background * Competence in HSE topics (Containment, HAZOP, REACH, CLP, safety regulation) * Understanding of IP landscape (patents, freedom to operate, licensing constraints) Hard Skills * API Life Cycle Management * Process Development * GMP Environments * HSE Competence * Industrial Chemistry * Chemical Engineering * Risk Mitigation * Supply Chain Management * Continuous Improvement * Technical Leadership Soft Skills * Business Oriented Mindset * Collaboration * Influencing Skills * Analytical Thinking * Problem Solving #J-*****-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Director, Api Industrial Manufacturing & Lcm (Parma)
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📍 Parma