What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Process Excellence position at Amneal Pharmaceuticals?
Job Description
Description:
The Senior Director, Digital Process Excellence is responsible for transforming how the company operates across all commercial verticals — Retail, Institutional, and BioSimilars. The role owns the end-to-end design, optimization, and continuous improvement of critical business processes, applying digital tools, automation, and AI to make the business measurably faster, better, and more profitable.
This is a business transformation role. This role will partner closely with IT to deliver technology solutions but owns the business outcomes: revenue growth, operating efficiency, customer experience, and process resilience.
Essential Functions:
Process Excellence & Business Transformation
Education:
At the heart of our Total Rewards commitment is a comprehensive, flexible and competitive benefits program for eligible positions that enables you to choose the plans and coverage that meet your personal needs. This includes above-market, diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our employees as well as a significant 401(k) matching contribution to help our employees save for retirement. We also promote employee well-being with programs that help you enjoy your career alongside life’s many other commitments and opportunities.
Description:
The Senior Director, Digital Process Excellence is responsible for transforming how the company operates across all commercial verticals — Retail, Institutional, and BioSimilars. The role owns the end-to-end design, optimization, and continuous improvement of critical business processes, applying digital tools, automation, and AI to make the business measurably faster, better, and more profitable.
This is a business transformation role. This role will partner closely with IT to deliver technology solutions but owns the business outcomes: revenue growth, operating efficiency, customer experience, and process resilience.
Essential Functions:
Process Excellence & Business Transformation
- Define and execute the enterprise digital process strategy across Retail, Institutional, and BioSimilars verticals
- Identify and prioritize the highest-value opportunities to apply automation, AI, and digital tools to commercial business processes
- Drive measurable improvements in cycle time, quality, customer experience, and profitability
- Own end-to-end business process design and continuous improvement across:
- Order management and order-to-cash
- Pricing, bid-quote, contracting, and CPQ
- eCommerce and digital marketing
- Customer service and customer/government portals
- Warehouse management, distribution, and 3PL coordination
- Institutional and retail sales operations
- Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities
- Develop and execute strategies that ensure scalability and resilience
- Lead the identification, prioritization, and adoption of AI and digital solutions across commercial operations
- Establish governance, value measurement, and adoption frameworks for AI-enabled processes
- Translate emerging technology capabilities into tangible business impact
- Define enterprise-level commercial KPIs and dashboards that provide leadership visibility into business performance
- Standardize reporting across functions, replacing fragmented and inconsistent approaches
- Use data-driven insight to drive continuous improvement and decision-making
- Serve as the senior business owner of digital process transformation across commercial operations Partner with Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Finance to align transformation priorities with business strategy
- Liaise closely with IT on solution architecture, delivery, security, and scalability — bringing business requirements forward and ensuring technology investments deliver business outcomes
- Act as the executive translator between business outcomes and technology solutions
- Build, mentor, and lead a team of digital process champions, each accountable for a core commercial process domain (e.g., order-to-cash, pricing and contracting, eCommerce, warehouse and distribution, customer experience)
- Scale process excellence and digital fluency capability across the broader organization
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and customer-centricity
Education:
- Bachelors Degree (BA/BS) : Engineering, Business or related field
- 15 years or more Progressive experience in commercial operations, business transformation, or process excellence
- Progressive experience in commercial operations, business transformation, or process excellence
- Demonstrated track record leading enterprise-scale digital and process transformation programs
- Proven experience as the business sponsor or business owner of major commercial technology platforms (ERP, CPQ, eCommerce, WMS, CRM, analytics)
- Strong fluency with AI, automation, and emerging digital capabilities — and the ability to translate them into business value
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in the pharmaceutical industry (FDA, GxP)
- Experience working with C-Suite and Board-level executives
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making
- Exceptional communication and influence skills across business, technical, and executive audiences
- Decisive, organized, and able to prioritize and lead multiple parallel transformation initiatives.
- Entrepreneurial mindset — collaborative team player with the assertiveness to drive outcomes
- Lean Six Sigma certification or equivalent continuous improvement methodology a strong plus
At the heart of our Total Rewards commitment is a comprehensive, flexible and competitive benefits program for eligible positions that enables you to choose the plans and coverage that meet your personal needs. This includes above-market, diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our employees as well as a significant 401(k) matching contribution to help our employees save for retirement. We also promote employee well-being with programs that help you enjoy your career alongside life’s many other commitments and opportunities.
Salary : $280,000 - $315,000