Assoc. Dir, External Manufacturing, Technical Product Management

About the role

Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats. Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys' IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. Role Overview: Our Company is seeking an energetic, forward-thinking Associate Director to play a pivotal role on our Supply Chain Planning and External Manufacturing Team. In this high-impact position, you'll lead integration of cutting-edge integration solutions, drive digital execution and delivery that elevates end-to-end supply chain visibility across our internal operations and external partners (CMOs, CDMOs, suppliers). You'll leverage your hands-on experience connecting critical supply chain data from Contract Manufacturing Organizations, platforms to build robust, scalable integration capabilities enabling our External Manufacturing business to deliver for our patients. Drawing on your deep understanding of life sciences supply chain, manufacturing, and quality processes, you will enable seamless data flow that powers best-in-class planning and analytics tools-turning partner data into actionable insights that directly support smarter, faster, and more resilient decision-making that minimizes risk. What will you do in this role Digital Innovation, Technical Integration & Solution Design Help drive CMO integration platform evolution and strategy ensuring continuous evolution, capability build and implement best in class SC collaboration capabilities that are scalable Provide line of site and technical expertise into advancing technology integration in the Life Science and CMO/CDMO space in relation to Supply Chain Lead delivery and value attainment for Supply Chain integrations across our CMO landscape and continue to evolve with suppliers over time. Translate business and supply chain requirements into technical integration designs with Contract Manufacturing partners: Data flows between CMOs and SAP (e.g., purchase orders, production orders, inventory, goods movements, IDocs) Quality systems (e.g., batch release status, CoAs, deviations) Kinaxis (e.g., demand, supply, inventory, capacity, lead times) leveraging SAP Business Network (or other integration platforms (Tracelink, E2Open, OneNetwork) Lead design for: Integration patterns (APIs, EDI, IDoc, file-based, message queues, B2B gateways, etc.). Data models, mapping, and transformations. Error handling, exception management, and monitoring. Collaborate across technical teams, product lines and enterprise/solution architects to ensure alignment to reference architectures and data standards. Translate business outcomes to technical requirements into integration and data solutions; ensure data accuracy, timeliness, and context (e.g., batch/lot, yield, mfg milestones, other data points of manufacturing process). Ensure performance, availability, and scalability of the integrations. Stakeholder & Partner Management Work closely with: Supply Chain, External Manufacturing, Quality and Planning functions teams Partner/CMO IT counterparts and vendors Contribute to workshops to define requirements, map processes, and align on data ownership. Communicate status, risks, and decisions to business and IT leadership. Manage vendor/SI deliverables and ensure alignment to technical expectations. Operations & Continuous Improvement Define support model and handover to operations / run teams. Identify and implement opportunities to standardize and reuse integration patterns across CMOs. Develop and maintain dashboards and K