Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
August 11, 2026
Remote friendly (Cambridge, MA)
United States
Operations
Responsibilities:
- Translate Network Strategy priorities into sequenced decisions, milestones, and execution checkpoints
- Decompose complex initiatives (e.g., site selection, sourcing strategy, network expansion) into executable workstreams
- Identify decision dependencies, sequencing constraints, and gating milestones across initiatives
- Partner with Network Strategy leadership on strategic problem framing, including hypothesis development, decision criteria, and tradeoff articulation
- Facilitate decision-ready materials for senior leadership (clear problem statements, options and tradeoffs, recommended paths forward)
- Distinguish items requiring inform, discussion, endorsement, or decision
- Support timely decision closure with the Head of Network Strategy
- Track actions, commitments, and milestones; ensure owners and expectations are clear
- Surface execution risks early and escalate with proposed options
- Facilitate Network Strategy Forum (agenda shaping to emphasize progress/outcomes/decisions)
- Ensure pre-reads are structured, focused, and decision-oriented; capture outcomes/next steps
- Synthesize complex technical/operational inputs into clear narratives; prepare senior-leader summaries (progress, blockers, risks)
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience (Master’s preferred)
- Practical understanding of pharma/biotech manufacturing and supply chain flows (including CMC, regulatory, quality)
- Comfortable operating across technical, regulatory, and operational domains without being an expert
- Working knowledge of supply chain and network design considerations
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize complex data into actionable insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication at a senior-leader level
- Proven ability to drive progress without formal authority
- Ability to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions credibly
- Highly organized, disciplined, reliable; ability to push for clarity/closure with appropriate sponsorship
U.S. Pay Range:
- $162,800.00 - $220,200.00
- Eligible for annual short-term incentive and annual long-term incentive (e.g., equity)
- Translate Network Strategy priorities into sequenced decisions, milestones, and execution checkpoints
- Decompose complex initiatives (e.g., site selection, sourcing strategy, network expansion) into executable workstreams
- Identify decision dependencies, sequencing constraints, and gating milestones across initiatives
- Partner with Network Strategy leadership on strategic problem framing, including hypothesis development, decision criteria, and tradeoff articulation
- Facilitate decision-ready materials for senior leadership (clear problem statements, options and tradeoffs, recommended paths forward)
- Distinguish items requiring inform, discussion, endorsement, or decision
- Support timely decision closure with the Head of Network Strategy
- Track actions, commitments, and milestones; ensure owners and expectations are clear
- Surface execution risks early and escalate with proposed options
- Facilitate Network Strategy Forum (agenda shaping to emphasize progress/outcomes/decisions)
- Ensure pre-reads are structured, focused, and decision-oriented; capture outcomes/next steps
- Synthesize complex technical/operational inputs into clear narratives; prepare senior-leader summaries (progress, blockers, risks)
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience (Master’s preferred)
- Practical understanding of pharma/biotech manufacturing and supply chain flows (including CMC, regulatory, quality)
- Comfortable operating across technical, regulatory, and operational domains without being an expert
- Working knowledge of supply chain and network design considerations
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize complex data into actionable insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication at a senior-leader level
- Proven ability to drive progress without formal authority
- Ability to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions credibly
- Highly organized, disciplined, reliable; ability to push for clarity/closure with appropriate sponsorship
U.S. Pay Range:
- $162,800.00 - $220,200.00
- Eligible for annual short-term incentive and annual long-term incentive (e.g., equity)