The role
We are seeking an experienced and highly commercial driven leader to take our global supply chain organization through the next phase of growth, maturity, and operational excellence. This is an opportunity for a strong supply chain leader who can continue building a high-performing, globally integrated, and business-oriented end-to-end supply chain.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Global Supply Chain organization and ensure reliable, cost-efficient, and sustainable supply to customers and patients globally.
- Drive end-to-end supply chain performance across service, cost, cash, sustainability, risk, and quality compliance.
- Continue the implementation and stabilization of the Global Supply Chain target operating model, ensuring clear roles, governance, interfaces, and decision rights.
- Partner closely with Global Operations, Commercial, Public Preparedness, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, IT, and site leadership to balance supply, demand, capacity, and business priorities.
- Build organizational capability across people, processes, systems, and data, including ERP evolution, performance management, and digital transformation.
- Lead, coach, and develop a strong global leadership team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, quality mindset, and customer focus
You will lead a global organization of approximately 115 employees through a team of around 15 direct reports. The role can be based in Kvistgaard, Denmark, or Thorishaus, Switzerland, and reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). International travel of up to 20% should be expected.
What You Bring
To become a success in this role, it is crucial that you bring solid business acumen, energy, and ambition to our dynamic growing business. Therefore, we are looking for a supply chain executive who thrives in translating business ambition into operational results.
You excel at leading through others, creating alignment across a global organization, and ensuring that supply chain capabilities evolve in step with business needs. Rather than building strategy from scratch, you know how to accelerate and strengthen existing direction, driving performance, resilience, and continuous improvement at scale. Besides this, you bring
- Extensive experience leading end-to-end supply chain organizations in a global and highly regulated environment
- A strong record of accomplishment of building high-performing leadership teams and developing organizational capability
- Deep understanding of integrated business planning, supply chain operations, logistics, and network performance
- Proven ability to navigate complexity and drive execution across multiple functions, geographies, and stakeholders
- Experience leading operational transformations, process optimization, and digital enablement initiatives
- A collaborative, pragmatic, and results-oriented leadership approach with the ability to inspire trust and drive accountability
Why this role
This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a global supply chain organization in a company with a strong purpose and an ambitious growth agenda. Reporting directly to the COO, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Global Supply Chain, driving transformation, building organizational capabilities, and ensuring that life-saving vaccines reach patients and customers around the world.
Bavarian Nordic is a global vaccine company with a mission to improve health and save lives through innovative vaccines. We are a preferred supplier of mpox and smallpox vaccines to governments to enhance public health preparedness and have a leading portfolio of travel vaccines. We are headquartered in Denmark and have manufacturing, research, and sales offices across Europe and North America.
Bavarian Nordic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
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Vice President, Global Supply Chain in Bern Arbeitgeber: Bavarian Nordic
Bavarian Nordic ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der Ihnen die Möglichkeit bietet, in einem dynamischen und internationalen Team zu arbeiten, das sich leidenschaftlich für die Entwicklung lebensrettender Impfstoffe einsetzt. In Martinsried haben Sie die Chance, Ihre Fähigkeiten in einer BSL-3\* Tierhaltung zu verbessern und aktiv an der Qualitätssicherung von Impfstoffen mitzuwirken, während Sie von einem respektvollen Arbeitsumfeld und vielfältigen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten profitieren. Wir fördern eine inklusive Unternehmenskultur, die auf persönlichem und beruflichem Wachstum basiert, und bieten Ihnen die Möglichkeit, einen direkten Einfluss auf die Gesundheit von Patienten weltweit zu haben.
