Tech Transfer & Program Management Lead, Asia

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Job Description

About the role:

• Plan and execute assigned technology transfers, lifecycle management projects, launch readiness activities, and strategic MSAT programs from initiation through implementation
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, maintain integrated plans, manage risks and issues, and deliver milestones with discipline and transparency
• Connect science, technical strategy, manufacturing readiness, quality, regulatory, supply chain, and execution to support reliable product supply and successful launches
• Apply a role interchangeable across EU, US, and Asia TT&PM teams, adjusting only geography, portfolio, reporting line, and local stakeholder context as needed.

How you will contribute:

• Lead planning and execution of assigned commercial, late-stage, or lifecycle transfers through integrated transfer plans, milestone tracking, action management, governance preparation, and readiness reviews
• Maintain integrated project plans, critical paths, dependencies, decision logs, risk registers, issue logs, and communication plans
• Coordinate MSAT, modality teams, sites, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Engineering, Development/PharmSci, external partners, and enabling functions, building trusted relationships and alignment on scope, timelines, roles, decision rights, and expectations
• Identify, document, escalate, and drive mitigation of risks and issues affecting timelines, quality, supply, regulatory readiness, or business outcomes
• Coordinate Tech Transfer Plans, Tech Transfer Protocols, comparability/readiness materials, governance updates, action trackers, and closeout documentation using TT Standardization & Program Excellence templates
• Support engineering runs, PPQ readiness, validation planning, regulatory filing readiness, site readiness, and post-transfer stabilization with accountable technical and quality functions
• Provide clear, concise, timely communications, status updates, escalation summaries, decision requests, and portfolio inputs
• Prepare and support program-level steering and operating committees, team meetings, stage gates, and readiness forums, escalating beyond program scope to the Regional Head/Lead
• Apply standard TT&PM tools, templates, reporting mechanisms, and knowledge management practices, feeding lessons learned back to TT Standardization & Program Excellence rather than creating local variants
• Support digital and data-enabled tool adoption to improve visibility, knowledge transfer, action tracking, risk management, and execution speed.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, pharmaceutical science, biotechnology, chemistry, biology, project management, or a related scientific/technical discipline; advanced degree or project management certification preferred.
• 5-10+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing, MSAT, CMC, process development, technology transfer, program management, quality, supply chain, or a related technical function.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects or workstreams in a regulated/GMP environment.
• Working knowledge of technology transfer, manufacturing readiness, validation/PPQ concepts, change control, risk management, regulatory/quality interfaces, and lifecycle management.
• Strong project management discipline, organization, follow-up, meeting facilitation, and action tracking.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, site teams, and senior stakeholders; ability to translate complexity into concise actions and decisions.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills in a matrix environment; ability to drive progress without direct authority.
• Growth mindset and willingness to adopt standard tools, digital practices, and continuous improvement approaches.

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