What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations position at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals?
Overview
The Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations is responsible for driving disciplined execution and momentum across Supply Network Strategy initiatives by structuring work, sequencing decisions, and ensuring consistent follow‑through.
This role operates as the execution integrator for Network Strategy - turning strategy intent into actionable plans, decision‑ready materials, and measurable progress. This role operates at the intersection of network strategy formulation and execution, ensuring that strategic intent is pressure-tested, sequenced, and translated into decisions that materially strengthen supply continuity and resilience. The role will work under the direction of the Network Strategy Head to partner in driving senior alignment, prioritization, and arbitration.
This is a high‑leverage individual contributor role focused on methodical execution in a complex, cross‑functional environment. It owns the structure, sequencing, and execution of Network Strategy priorities so leadership can focus on alignment and decisions.
Responsibilities
Initiative Structuring & Execution
$162,800.00 - $220,200.00
The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).
Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.
Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers
About Alnylam
We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.
At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.
The Associate Director, Supply Network Strategy Operations is responsible for driving disciplined execution and momentum across Supply Network Strategy initiatives by structuring work, sequencing decisions, and ensuring consistent follow‑through.
This role operates as the execution integrator for Network Strategy - turning strategy intent into actionable plans, decision‑ready materials, and measurable progress. This role operates at the intersection of network strategy formulation and execution, ensuring that strategic intent is pressure-tested, sequenced, and translated into decisions that materially strengthen supply continuity and resilience. The role will work under the direction of the Network Strategy Head to partner in driving senior alignment, prioritization, and arbitration.
This is a high‑leverage individual contributor role focused on methodical execution in a complex, cross‑functional environment. It owns the structure, sequencing, and execution of Network Strategy priorities so leadership can focus on alignment and decisions.
Responsibilities
Initiative Structuring & Execution
- 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
- Explicitly identify decision dependencies, sequencing constraints, and gating milestones across initiatives
- Partner with Network Strategy leadership to shape strategic problem framing not just limited to downstream execution, but also including hypothesis development, decision criteria, and tradeoff articulation
- Facilitate preparation of decision‑ready materials for senior leadership, including clear problem statements, options and tradeoffs, and recommended paths forward
- Distinguish between items requiring inform, discussion, endorsement, or decision
- Support the Head of Network Strategy in driving timely decision closure
- Track actions, commitments, and milestones across Network Strategy initiatives, ensuring owners and expectations are clearly identified
- Surface execution risks early and escalate with proposed options
- Facilitate Network Strategy Forum including shapingagendas to emphasize progress, outcomes, and decisions
- Ensure pre‑reads are structured, focused, and decision‑oriented
- Capture outcomes and next steps clearly to avoid re‑cycling topics
- Synthesize complex technical and operational inputs into clear, concise narratives
- Prepare and own summaries for senior leaders highlighting progress, blockers, and risks
- Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Masters preferred
- Practical understanding of pharma/biotech manufacturing and supply chain flows, including CMC, regulatory and quality considerations
- Must be comfortable operating across technical, regulatory, and operational domains, without being an expert
- Working knowledge of supply chain and network design considerations
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems and synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders
- 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, and reliable
- Comfortable pushing for clarity and closure with more senior level team members, with appropriate sponsorship
$162,800.00 - $220,200.00
The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).
Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.
Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers
About Alnylam
We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.
At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.
Salary : $162,800 - $220,200