Manufacturing & Supply Site Head

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Manufacturing & Supply Site Head for Aventis Pharma Manufacturing Singapore will be responsible for the overall leadership, strategic direction, and operational excellence of the manufacturing site. This includes overseeing production, quality, engineering, supply chain, EHS (Environment, Health & Safety), and regulatory compliance. Ensuring the Site meets business objectives, regulatory standards, and customer expectations while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

• Leadership & Strategy: Lead the site leadership team and drive alignment with corporate goals. Develop and implement site strategy to support business growth and operational efficiency. Represent the site in global forums and audits.

• Operations Management:

• Oversee all manufacturing operations including production, engineering, warehousing, and utilities. Ensure timely delivery of products with adherence to quality, cost, and service targets. Drive productivity, yield improvement, and cost optimization initiatives.

• Quality & Compliance: Ensure full compliance with cGMP, regulatory, and safety standards. Maintain audit readiness and lead regulatory inspections (FDA, EMA, etc.). Implement robust quality systems and continuous improvement practices.

• People & Culture: Build and maintain a high-performance culture through effective leadership and talent development. Promote employee engagement, safety, and well-being. Ensure workforce planning and succession management.

• Capital & Budget Management: Manage site budget and operational expenditures. Lead infrastructure upgrades.

• EHS & Sustainability: Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety

About you

• Strong Experience in the small molecules API production factory

• Track record in managing and developing cross functional large teams

• Good functional knowledge on industrial business processes incl Safety, Quality and Performance, local (Singapore) statutory requirements is a plus

• Good exposure to change management and transversal collaboration (e.g., projects)

• Experience in a global function role (e.g., Quality, SMS, E&M) and/or in end-to-end strategic position (e.g., Industrial Product Leader) is a plus

• Production & Operation management expertise with good command of performance KPI and budget setting, monitoring and goal achievement, incl. Lean and Supply Chain principles

• Thorough knowledge of EHS requirements as well as of cGMP and Quality regulations, incl. successful demonstrated safety achievements and good track-record in an EMA / FDA environment (PAI and GMP-inspections)

• Good practice & understanding of new technologies & digital tools (predictive maintenance, eBR, Infra-Red PAT…) 

• Strategic thinking: Analyses of current and future scenarios, disrupts the status quo with innovation, while remaining pragmatic and focus on priorities. Able to shape a vision. Able to lead & animate networks, teams, experts - Strong communication skills

• Results orientation: Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives from concept to execution

• People development: Engages and leverages everyone’s strengths while being highly self-aware. Instore the culture of feedback & empower people to grow & manage his/her career path. Stretched ambition and take action. Encourages the teams to stretch and do things differently & creates space for the teams to take action

• Inspires trust through empathy and authenticity. Empowers and recognizes others to create powerful relationships and networks.

• Commit to Patients and full product quality. Makes sure the teams understand how to act for patients and customers.