01 ago - Parma
Chiesi Farmaceutici
API Industrial Manufacturing & LCM Sr Director
Date: 2 Jul 2026
Business Area: Industrial Operations & HSE
Job Type: Direct Employee
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Parma, Italy. The role offers flexibility, combining on‑site presence with remote work.
Responsibilities
- Account for the API industrialization strategy, aligning with commercial priorities and portfolio plans.
- Ensure predictable time‑to‑market and reliable supply for new and existing APIs.
- Provide senior leadership input into new opportunity evaluation and collaborate in due diligence processes.
- Accountable for the Life Cycle Management (LCM) strategy, including robustness, capacity evolution, cost optimization, and second sourcing.
- Proactively identify and mitigate supply, obsolescence, and margin‑erosion risks over the product life cycle.
- Support evaluation of manufacturing process changes, deviations, and control strategy definition.
- Serve as senior technical and industrial partner to Procurement, R&D;, Quality, and Supply Chain to drive drug product industrialization and LCM.
- Collaborate with environmental sustainability unit to support sustainable supply chain and products.
- Support negotiations.
- Influence portfolio, investment, and prioritization decisions through industrial and market insight.
- Ensure API industrialization and life‑cycle activities comply with GMP, regulatory requirements, and customer agreements.
- Anticipate and manage industrial and supply‑chain risks with an enterprise‑level perspective.
- Act as senior technical contributor during audits.
- Assess, reduce, and mitigate supply‑chain and life‑cycle risks through proactive industrial leadership.
- Strengthen the organization’s technical credibility with strategic stakeholders.
- Drive cross‑functional collaboration to deliver commercial advantage.
Qualifications
- Degree in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related fields (PhD a plus).
- 15+ years of experience in API industria
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