Hybrid Associate Director, Technology Transfer – Animal Health Vaccines

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About the role

  • Lead and support end-to-end site-to-site technology transfers for Animal Health vaccines (drug substance and drug product), from scoping/siting through PPQ and commercial readiness
  • Establish and deploy standardized transfer methodology, tools, training, and governance; ensure clear visualization of status through reporting and tiered escalation
  • Drive Block 1 scoping and siting assessments and in collaboration with transfer lead own timely execution of transfer strategies across Blocks 2–6, balancing speed, risk, and compliance
  • Serve as the single point of contact across donor and receiving sites and global functions; maintain tight stakeholder alignment and issue/risk management
  • Supports engineering runs and PPQ; ensure strong process performance monitoring, deviation triage, CAPA effectiveness, and readiness for regulatory inspections
  • Build and develop high-performing teams; coach transfer leads, allocate resources, and cultivate talent across a matrixed network

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, or relevant science/business field
  • 5+ years of experience in vaccine or biologics manufacturing with a proven track record leading site-to-site technology transfers in Large Molecule operations
  • Demonstrated project management leadership delivering complex, multi-site programs on time and within budget; PMP or equivalent experience preferred
  • Hands-on expertise with pharmaceutical/biological processes (drug substance, drug product, formulation, fill-finish, lyophilization; knowledge of single-use systems, chromatography, filtration)
  • People leadership experience: managing teams and influencing across matrixed organizations; coaching and developing transfer leads
  • Strong understanding of cGMP, PPQ, validation (process/cleaning/CSV), and global regulatory frameworks (USDA)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication; effective negotiation and stakeholder management across sites and functions.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
  • retirement benefits, including 401(k)
  • paid holidays
  • vacation
  • compassionate and sick days

Job title

Associate Director, Technology Transfer – Animal Health Vaccines

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$126,500 - $199,100 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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