Head of Make CoE

Location: Macclesfield (UK), Södertälje (Snackviken and Gärtuna, Sweden), and selected Americas sites. Hybrid Working: Minimum 3 days per week in the office.

Introduction to Role: Are you ready to shape the future of how we make life‑changing medicines across a global manufacturing network? As Head of the Make Center of Excellence, you will set the strategy and roadmap that transforms end‑to‑end Make processes, partnering with sites and central teams to deliver safer, higher‑quality, more sustainable, faster and more productive operations. Your leadership will enable our vision for autonomous manufacturing and top‑decile performance, turning ambition into outcomes for patients and the business. You will orchestrate a complex portfolio through robust governance, enterprise alignment and rigorous business process management.

Do you thrive on questioning the status quo, integrating digital and process innovation, and coaching a high‑performing team to deliver enterprise‑wide results?

Accountabilities:

• Strategy and Roadmap Leadership: Shape, maintain and communicate the Make CoE strategy and multi‑year roadmap; ensure clear priorities and measurable value delivery.
• Governance and Alignment: Lead the Make steering committee, co‑lead the Make IT strategy steering committee and actively contribute to Smart Factory and Advanced Data present at senior forums to drive decisions that improve quality, performance and productivity.
• Cross‑Functional Integration: Partner closely with IT, Data build a culture of ownership, curiosity and continuous improvement.
• Business Process Management Excellence: Design, own, maintain and communicate global standards; drive adherence; define global KPIs; monitor and improve performance; codify and spread good practices; strengthen BPM capability across the network.
• Customer Focus and Value Creation: Embed voice of the customer across process networks; deliver solutions that advance safety, quality, sustainability, lead‑time and productivity.
• Risk and Issue Management: Proactively identify issues and risks.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• 10+ years of broad experience in pharmaceutical operations, particularly within the area of manufacturing and preferably also in other functional areas of Operations.
• Proven ability to effectively partner and collaborate with senior leadership across multiple Operations functions to reach optimal enterprise‑level decisions that incorporate diverse perspectives and insights.
• High level of proficiency in collaborating and influencing at many levels of the company through well‑developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to build productive relationships with colleagues across a range of functions including supply sites, IT, Quality, PT.

Take the next step in your impact‑driven career today!

Equal Opportunity: Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.