Job Title – Director, Technical Business Strategy
Work Location – Remote
Job Summary:
Highly technical, client-facing Technical Director/Associate Director/Sr. Manager will serve as the primary technical architect for GDPO including Drug Product (DP), Combination Products, and Clinical Supply services.
This role focuses on technical strategy and solution design, ensuring our scientific capabilities are expertly translated to meet client needs. The individual will act as the ultimate technical expert, bridging our development, manufacturing, and device engineering teams to provide prospective clients with high-value technical consultation, risk assessment, and program architecture.
Job Responsibilities:
- Serve as the lead technical advisor for complex prospective programs, providing expert consultation on formulation, process development, clinical supply logistics, and combination product assembly (PFS, autoinjectors, needle safety device).
- Design end-to-end manufacturing solutions for clients, ensuring all technical requirements are feasible and aligned with WuXi’s specialized capabilities and capacities.
- Lead technical discussions during client site visits and capability presentations, serving as the definitive expert to resolve technical queries and secure client trust.
- Develop and execute global market promotion strategies for WuXi’s technical portfolio, identifying key business highlights that differentiate Wuxi’s clinical and commercial service offerings.
- Customize high-impact technical promotion materials, ensuring that all marketing and technical literature accurately reflect WuXi’s technical excellence.
- Provide high-level technical oversight to ensure client programs are properly scoped and de-risked.
- Operate as an independent technical function, to ensure alignment with Wuxi’s global technical and operational roadmaps.
- Establish and maintain an independent GDPO technical tracking dashboard, monitoring all client technical interactions, receptions, and capability presentations until program initiation.
- Synthesize technical feedback from the market to influence the internal capacity planning, device development, and service innovation strategies.
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific discipline.
- 10+ years in the biopharmaceutical industry. Expertise in sterile fill-finish, clinical supply chain management, and combination product development (PFS, autoinjectors, needle safety) is required.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions at an executive level. You must have the credibility to represent the company's technical capabilities independently.
- Proven ability to translate complex manufacturing data into high-value business opportunities and contracts.
- Successful track record of operating in high-autonomy roles, with experience reporting to senior technical leadership rather than purely commercial/sales management.
- Read, write and speak fluent English
- Read and speak Mandarin is a plus
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel
- Ability to work in ambiguity and develop solutions
- Experience working within a CDMO environment is a plus
The anticipated salary range for this position is $134,400 to $228,500
Job description does not intend to list all the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Employee holding this position would be required to perform other job-related duties/responsibilities based on their expertise and company business needs.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
