Executive Director, End to End Planning

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Philadelphia, PA, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Pharmaceutical
The Role
Leads enterprise end-to-end planning across PCI’s supply chain, including demand, capacity, inventory, materials, production, and scheduling. Owns Integrated Business Planning governance, standardizes processes and KPIs, improves planning data quality, and supports supply chain transformation and ERP improvements. Partners with commercial, operations, finance, procurement, quality, IT, and manufacturing leaders to improve service, capacity utilization, inventory, forecast reliability, and decision-making. Develops planning talent and leads teams across a complex, multisite life sciences environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Life changing therapies. Global impact. Bridge to thousands of biopharma companies and their patients.


We are PCI. 


Our investment is in People who make an impact, drive progress and create a better tomorrow. Our strategy includes building teams across our global network to pioneer and shape the future of PCI.

   

Summary of Objective:

The Executive Director, End-to-End Planning is responsible for building, leading, and continuously improving the planning function across the full PCI supply chain. This role will drive maturity in demand planning, capacity modeling, material requirements planning, production planning, and scheduling. The role partners with segment leadership, manufacturing sites, finance, procurement, and quality, through Integrated Business Planning across short, mid, and long term planning horizons to deliver improvements in customer service, capacity utilization, inventory performance, forecast reliability, and business decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The essential duties and responsibilities include the following but other duties may be assigned.

  • Lead the design and execution of an enterprise end-to-end planning strategy that connects demand, capacity, inventory, and supply.
  • Own and mature the Integrated Business Planning process, ensuring clear governance, decision rights, escalation paths, and executive-level visibility.
  • Develop and deploy processes, tools, and KPIs across segments and sites to drive purposeful standardization.
  • Partner with commercial and business development teams to translate customer forecasts, purchase orders, and pipeline assumptions into an unconstrained demand plan.
  • Lead capacity planning to identify constraints, surface trade-off decisions, and align capacity utilization with revenue expectations and customer commitments.
  • Drive planning data discipline, including forecast accuracy, demand signal quality, master data integrity, lead times, planning parameters, and planning system utilization.
  • Serve as a business partner to operations, finance, commercial, procurement, IT, quality, and segment leadership to enable faster, data-driven decisions.
  • Provide leadership and subject-matter expertise for planning teams supporting clinical, commercial, and D&M.
  • Build organizational capability by developing planning talent, clarifying roles and responsibilities, coaching planning leaders, and creating a strong planning community across the network.
  • Support supply chain transformation initiatives, ERP / planning system improvements, analytics development, and future-state planning operating model design.

                                                                                                                                           

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required for the stated position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, business, engineering, finance, or a related field.
  • 10 or more years of progressive supply chain experience in life sciences across a broad spectrum of planning disciplines.
  • 5 or more years of people leadership experience, including leading managers or cross-functional planning teams.
  • 5 or more years of experience working with or working for CDMOs.
  • Strong understanding of ERP and Advanced Planning Systems
  • Experience operating in a complex, multi-site, matrixed environment with competing priorities and cross-functional decision-making.
  • Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to translate complex planning issues into clear business decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Proven ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across commercial, operations, finance, procurement, quality, IT, and site teams.
  • Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or business transformation experience.
  • College Level Mathematical Skills
  • Intermediate Computer Skills: Ability to perform more complex computer tasks and has knowledge of various computer programs.    
  • Full Professional Proficiency: Ability to speak, read, and write fluently and accurately on all levels pertinent to professional needs.
  • High Reasoning: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where there is only limited standardization. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions that may be provided in various forms.
  • High Standard of Report Writing

Join us and be part of building the bridge between life changing therapies and patients. Let’s talk future

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement:
PCI Pharma Services is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.

At PCI, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our company’s purpose: Together, delivering life-changing therapies. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace by holding ourselves accountable to the highest standards of understanding, fairness, respect, and equal opportunity – at every level. We envision a PCI community where everyone can belong and grow, and we strive to bring this vision to reality by continuously and intentionally assessing our people practices, policies and programs, marketing approach, and workplace culture.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, business, engineering, finance, or a related field.
  • 10 or more years of progressive supply chain experience in life sciences across multiple planning disciplines.
  • 5 or more years of people leadership experience, including leading managers or cross-functional planning teams.
  • 5 or more years of experience working with or for contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs).
  • Strong understanding of ERP and Advanced Planning Systems.
  • Experience in a complex, multisite, matrixed environment with competing priorities and cross-functional decision-making.
  • Strong executive communication skills and ability to translate complex planning issues into business decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across commercial, operations, finance, procurement, quality, IT, and site teams.
  • Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or business transformation.
  • College-level mathematical skills.
  • Intermediate computer skills, including ability to perform complex computer tasks and use various computer programs.
  • Full professional proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing.
  • High reasoning ability to solve practical problems and interpret varied instructions.
  • High standard of report writing.

PCI Pharma Services Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about PCI Pharma Services and has not been reviewed or approved by PCI Pharma Services.

  • Retirement Support Feedback suggests the company provides a 401(k) with an employer match in the mid‑single‑digit range, with immediate vesting noted in certain cases. This is viewed as a solid component of the overall package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth PTO and paid holidays are commonly available, and some roles indicate vacation is accessible from early tenure. Availability of time off is frequently described as a positive element of the package.
  • Affordable Benefits Health insurance is sometimes described as reasonably priced depending on plan tier. Feedback suggests core medical, dental, and vision coverage is part of a standard offering.

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The Company
HQ: Philadelphia, PA
2,259 Employees

What We Do

PCI is a leading provider of integrated pharmaceutical development services to the global healthcare market. With facilities in North America and Europe, PCI supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies with products destined for more than 100 countries around the world. PCI provides services for each stage of the product lifecycle – from early Phase I through commercial launch and long-term supply – and partners with customers to provide key insight and expertise in enabling successful commercialization and bringing lifesaving medications to patients. For more information, go to www.pci.com.

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