Director, Digital Transformation

Position Summary

Lead the Devens Rewiring transformation, converting Blueprinting outputs into an integrated, multi-year roadmap and driving implementation across Biologics, Cell Therapy, and campus functions. The role connects strategy to execution across end-to-end planning, materials and warehousing, quality and sample-to-release, productivity, operating-model changes, and enabling digital capabilities. The successful candidate is an experienced transformation leader who can simplify complexity, mobilize cross-functional teams, challenge established practices, and deliver sustainable operational and financial results in a regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Program

• Own delivery of the Devens Rewiring transformation and its integrated roadmap, milestones, dependencies, resources, and outcomes.
• Translate approved blueprints into sequenced implementation waves while protecting manufacturing, supply, quality, and technology-transfer commitments.
• Maintain clear ownership, decision rights, governance, stage gates, readiness criteria, and scope control.
• Resolve cross-functional barriers and incorporate lessons learned into future deployments.

Integrate Workstreams and Operating Model

• Coordinate planning, materials and warehousing, quality and sample-to-release, productivity, and digital workstreams.
• Manage dependencies across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, MS&T, Digital/IT, Engineering, Finance, HR, and Operational Excellence.
• Align the roadmap with enterprise and network programs to reuse solutions and avoid duplicate investment or benefit claims.
• Build a "One Devens" operating model with simplified processes, handoffs, roles, governance, and decision rights across Biologics and Cell Therapy.
• Ensure new ways of working are practical for frontline teams and improve daily execution.

Deliver Outcomes and Adoption

• Maintain an integrated view of commitments, business cases, investments, milestones, risks, and benefits.
• Partner with Finance and business owners to validate investments, savings, operational outcomes, and benefit realization.
• Establish measures for readiness, adoption, execution progress, and sustained performance.
• Lead the change narrative and partner with HR, Change Management, Communications, and site leaders to build engagement.
• Involve frontline employees and subject-matter experts in solution design and address adoption barriers early.

Provide Governance and Build Capability

• Lead program governance across workstream, campus, and executive levels.
• Provide transparent reporting on progress, decisions, risks, dependencies, resources, investment, and value.
• Maintain a single integrated plan and prepare recommendations for senior governance forums.
• Coach workstream leaders and project teams in disciplined execution and problem solving.
• Transition ownership to business-process owners and codify approaches for use across the broader network.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Operations, or a related field.
• Significant experience leading complex transformation, operational excellence, manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, digital, or cross-functional programs in a regulated environment.
• Proven ability to move initiatives from strategy and design through implementation and sustained adoption.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations and end-to-end business processes.
• Demonstrated leadership of large, cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Strong program and portfolio management skills, including integrated planning, dependencies, risks, resources, and governance.
• Experience developing business cases and measuring operational and financial outcomes.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, decision-framing, and change-leadership skills.

Preferred

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience with significant leadership responsibility.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience leading large-scale lean, operational excellence, digital, or process transformation.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile/Scrum, and structured change-management methods.
• MBA or advanced technical or business degree.
• Experience implementing integrated planning, manufacturing, quality, materials, or digital solutions across functions or sites.

Leadership Profile

An enterprise minded, execution focused leader who connects process, organization, technology, data, and behavior; creates clarity amid ambiguity; influences without relying on hierarchy; and links simplification and productivity to reliable delivery for patients.