Manager, Drug Product, Commercial Manufacturing

The Opportunity

Oversee technical transfers, qualification activities, product lifecycle management and routine commercial manufacturing for assigned commercial products and CMO sites; including drug-product operations involving spray-dried dispersions (SDD), granulation, blending, milling, compression/encapsulation, film coating, and related solid oral dose manufacturing unit operations. This includes transfer planning and execution; process, equipment, and site readiness assessments; qualification and validation strategy; ongoing performance monitoring; and implementation of post-approval changes, process improvements, and supply-continuity initiatives throughout the product lifecycle.

The successful candidate will serve as the technical person for assigned CMOs, partnering cross-functionally with Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and external partners to manage performance, investigate issues, drive continuous improvement, and maintain a state of inspection readiness. This role requires the ability to provide technical oversight of complex commercial drug-product processes in specialized particle-engineering and solid-dose operations.

• Serve as the primary technical person for assigned commercial CMOs, providing day-to-day oversight of manufacturing operations, technical performance, and compliance, with particular focus on SDD, granulation, coating, and other critical drug-product unit operations, as applicable.
• Assess CMO site capability, capacity, facility fit, manufacturing infrastructure, utilities, and readiness to support commercial demand and future product needs.
• Evaluate and define requirements for manufacturing processes, process equipment, automation, process controls, and other site-specific technical needs.
• Manage manufacturing technical transfers, including transfer planning, site readiness, process implementation, execution support, and post-transfer monitoring.
• Manage equipment and process qualification, validation, PPQ, and continued process verification (CPV) activities.
• Manage manufacturing lifecycle activities, including post-approval changes, process improvements, scale or capacity changes, technical risk mitigation, and supply-continuity initiatives.
• Manage manufacturing-related deviations, complaints, nonconformances, investigations, root-cause analyses, CAPAs, and change controls.
• Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and CMO teams to maintain cGMP compliance, drive continuous improvement, manage documentation including change controls, and prepare for audits and inspections.
• Support APQRs by authoring appropriate manufacturing sections.

Required Skills, Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Chemistry, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Approximately 6–8 years of relevant pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry experience.
• Demonstrated commercial drug-product manufacturing experience, including technical operations, manufacturing science, process engineering, or manufacturing support.
• Experience managing or providing technical oversight to external CMOs or contract manufacturing sites.
• Strong knowledge of commercial drug-product manufacturing, process and equipment qualification, process validation (PPQ), and Continuous Process Verification (CPV).
• Working knowledge of cGMP requirements and quality systems, including deviations, CAPA, complaints, change control, and technical documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to assess manufacturing-site capability, capacity, process fit, equipment needs, and operational risks.
• Strong communication, technical writing, project-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills; willingness to travel to CMO sites as needed.