Senior Director, Head of Strategic Initiatives

We Are Teva

We’re Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it’s innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we’re dedicated to addressing patients’ needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

Our Team, Your Impact

The Head of Strategic Initiatives is a senior leadership role within the Strategic Operational Unit (SOU), accountable for leading time-bound, high-complexity strategic events that materially reshape the External Manufacturing network. This role will lead the strategic initiatives team (SIT) within SOU.

The role serves as the executive owner for supplier transitions, acquisitions, divestment-to-CMO transfers, large-scale technology transfers, supplier onboarding, remediation programs, major risk intervention and operational excellence projects across the SOU portfolio.

SIT functions as the dedicated intervention team within SOU, operating within Business Operations governance and project-management standards while maintaining direct accountability for successful execution and stabilization of critical transformation initiatives.

The incumbent is expected to lead cross-functional teams across Supply Chain, Quality, MS&T, Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, Commercial, Business Development and R&D while ensuring strategic events are delivered on time, within budget, compliant and capable of seamless handoff into Supplier Relationship Teams (SRTs) for steady-state ownership.

This role may include direct people leadership (subject to final organization design) and is expected to build, coach and develop a high-performing team capable of executing multiple concurrent strategic transformation initiatives.

This role will be hybrid onsite at our Parsippany, NJ office

How You’ll Spend Your Day

1. Strategic Events, Transitions & Integrations

• -Own high-complexity strategic events that reshape the SOU external manufacturing network, including supplier transitions, acquisitions, divestments, integrations, onboarding, remediation and large-scale complex transfers.

• -Lead SOU operational due diligence and translate strategic or transaction commitments into executable transition, integration, separation, Day 1, Day 100, or transition-service plans.

• -Define scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, decision rights, stage gates, risks, and acceptance criteria; mobilize cross-functional teams and external partners.

• -Deliver within approved scope, timeline, and budget while protecting patient supply, quality, compliance, customer commitments, and business value.

• -Identify and escalate material risks and trade-offs early, drive corrective actions, and maintain clear executive reporting.

• -Stabilize performance, complete a controlled handoff to the accountable SRT, and capture reusable lessons and playbooks.

2. Governance, Organizational Leadership & Capability

• -Lead global matrix teams and align priorities, resources, decision rights, timelines, and outcomes.

• -Remove barriers, resolve conflicts, and accelerate decisions that affect execution, compliance, supply, or value.

• -Implement the SOU governance model with Business Operations, including forums, stage gates, reporting, risk practices, tools, and performance routines.

• -Maintain clear accountability: Business Operations owns standards, SIT owns transition execution, and SRTs own steady-state supplier performance.

• -Provide transparent portfolio reporting, executive decision support, and continuous improvement through shared lessons and playbooks.

• -Build and lead the SIT organization, setting clear goals and developing talent, capabilities, and succession.

• -Foster a high-performance culture of ownership, urgency, collaboration, and compliance with Teva policies.

Key Performance Expectations

Strategic Event Delivery

• -Assigned high-complexity strategic events are delivered on time.

• -Successful, documented handoff to SRT organizations.

Supply & Risk

• -Supply continuity maintained during transitions.

• -Critical risk interventions executed successfully.

• -Transition risks identified early, escalated appropriately, and mitigated effectively.

Financial & Business

• -Programs delivered within approved scope and budget.

• -Business-case objectives and transition value captured.

• -Clear visibility of financial, operational, and supply implications for executive decisions.

Organizational Effectiveness

• -Reduction in strategic event workload absorbed by SRTs with improved SRM focus on steady-state supplier governance and portfolio performance.

• -Strong cross-functional stakeholder confidence in SIT governance and execution.

• -Consistent adoption of Business Operations methodologies, tools, and stage gates.

Your Skills and Experience

Education

• -Bachelor's degree in engineering, Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Supply Chain, Operations Management or a related discipline required.

• -MBA, Master's degree or advanced scientific or technical degree strongly preferred.

Experience

• -Typically, 15+ years of progressive experience within pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.

• -Significant experience leading technology transfers, integrations, site transfers, external manufacturing programs or strategic transformation initiatives.

• -Demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional operational programs with material supply, quality, regulatory, technical and financial implications.

• -Strong experience in external manufacturing and supply operations.

• -Proven experience influencing senior internal and external stakeholders in a global matrix.

• -Prior people-leadership experience required.

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

• -Deep understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing, external supply networks, cGMP expectations, and product lifecycle execution.

• -Strong expertise in program leadership, transition management, risk management, and execution governance.

• -Ability to distinguish enterprise methodology ownership from portfolio execution accountability and operate effectively within defined guardrails.

• -Exceptional stakeholder management, negotiation, and influence skills.

• -Executive-level communication, decision framing, and presentation capability.

• -Strong crisis management and intervention leadership skills.

• -Ability to lead decisively through ambiguity, organizational complexity, and competing priorities.

• -Proven ability to deliver transformational outcomes with speed, focus and discipline.

• -Fluency in English.

Salary Range

The annual starting salary for this position is between $193,840 – 242,300 annually. Factors which may affect starting salary within this range and level of role may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

How We’ll Take Care of You

We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day of employment, providing the employee enrolls.

• Retirement Savings: 401(k) with employer match, up to 6% and an annual 3.75% Defined Contribution to the 401k plan.

• Time Off: Paid Time Off including vacation, sick/safe time, caretaker time, 13 paid Holidays and 3 paid floating holidays.

• Life and Disability Protection: Company paid Life and Disability insurance.

• Additional benefits include, but not limited to, Employee Assistance Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Tuition Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Life Style Spending Account, Volunteer Time Off, Paid Parental Leave, if eligible , Family Building Benefits, Virtual Physical Therapy, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurances, Identity Theft Protection, Legal Plan, Voluntary Life Insurance and Long Term Disability and more.

The total compensation may also include restricted stock units and discretionary awards, depending on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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