What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director – Logistics Strategic (Pharma) position at JMD Technologies Inc.?
Title: Associate Director – Logistics Strategic Initiatives
Location: Remote, occasional travel to Boston
Duration: 12 Months
Position Overview:
Key Responsibilities:
- Program Oversight and Reporting
- Develop and maintain comprehensive reporting frameworks to monitor initiative progress, milestones, and outcomes.
- Provide regular updates to senior leadership and stakeholders, highlighting achievements, potential risks, and required interventions.
- Risk Identification and Mitigation
- Proactively identify timeline risks and delays, analyzing their downstream impacts on interdependent initiatives.
- Escalate significant risks and propose mitigation strategies to maintain program momentum.
- Cross-Functional Coordination
- Act as the central liaison among internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals and deliverables.
- Coordinate logistics strategy implementation across Logistics Network Design, Logistics Systems & Performance, Temperature Controlled Logistics, and Logistics Operations.
- Supports development and maintenance of Logistics roles & responsibilities matrix in alignment with the Logistics Leadership Team.
- Strategic Roadmap Management
- Drive adherence to the strategic roadmap timelines, resolving conflicts and addressing interdependencies across multiple initiatives.
- Ensure all deliverables align with Global Logistics strategic pillars goals, and align with key strategy development principles around Processes, People, Systems/Technology, etc.
- Process and System Optimization
- Support process improvement initiatives to streamline operations and operations enhance efficiency.
- Oversee systems integration projects, including the implementation of tools like Oracle OPM, OTM, and Supply Chain orchestration systems and ensure compatibility with logistics operations.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Proven expertise in program and project management within logistics, supply chain, or related industries.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities to ensure alignment across diverse teams and priorities.
- Demonstrated experience with risk management, including identifying, assessing, and mitigating project delays and conflicts.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully plan and optimize all resources of a group or function
- (budgets, staff, technology, succession planning, etc.) for advancement of all goals and objectives.
- Strong analytical skills to understand logistics & supply chain IT systems (e.g., Oracle OPM, OTM) and ensure their successful integration.
- Track record of managing large-scale strategic initiatives with multiple dependencies and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Proficiency in program management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira) and reporting software.
Preferred Background:
- Familiarity with Global Logistics or pharmaceutical Supply Chains, particularly within high-complexity and regulated environments.
- Understanding of network design, supplier onboarding, and carrier processes in logistics operations.
- Experience with systems integration and automation initiatives in logistics environments.
- Knowledge of governance models, performance metrics, and tools to track progress across international logistics operations.
