Senior Director, API Industrial Manufacturing & LCM

Chiesi Group

Senior Director API Industrialization maximizing industrial and commercial value across lifecycle for biopharmaceutical group. Ensuring compliance and strategic alignment in manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeParma • 🇮🇹 ItalySenior💰 €92,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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)

Benefits

Comp & perks

company car
pension
private medical insurance
wellbeing programme
flexible benefits programme

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Hard Skills & Tools

API Life Cycle ManagementProcess DevelopmentGMP EnvironmentsHSE CompetenceIndustrial ChemistryChemical EngineeringRisk MitigationSupply Chain ManagementContinuous ImprovementTechnical Leadership

Soft Skills

Business Oriented MindsetCollaborationInfluencing SkillsAnalytical ThinkingProblem Solving