Director, Global Logistics Operations Lead

Company Overview Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, and premature mortality.

We strive to lead the fight against MASH through scientific excellence, operational rigor, and collaboration.

Position Overview The Global Logistics Manager owns the global logistics execution strategy and performance management across transportation modes and lanes.

This role establishes carrier, forwarder, and broker governance, improves service reliability and cost‑to‑serve outcomes, and ensures compliance with GDP‑aligned documentation expectations in partnership with Quality and Trade / Compliance.

Key responsibilities include managing lane dashboards, reducing exceptions, leading disruption response for high‑risk lanes, and maintaining contingency playbooks.

Key Responsibilities Carrier/Forwarder Governance & Performance: Run carrier/forwarder governance cadence, manage lane performance dashboards and improvement plans, drive cost‑to‑serve management and service reliability improvements through lane strategy and partner accountability.

Produce deliverables such as carrier scorecards, lane dashboards, and cost‑/service trade‑off recommendations.

Shipment Controls & Audit

Readiness: Ensure logistics processes and documentation controls support GDP expectations and shipment integrity requirements.

Partner with Quality / Compliance on audit readiness, findings remediation, and SOP / training alignment.

Produce deliverables such as shipment documentation standards, deviation / exception logs, and audit response evidence.

Disruption Response & Contingency

Planning: Lead disruption response and contingency planning for high‑risk lanes, coordinate recovery actions and escalation, maintain contingency playbooks and ensure partner readiness for triggers and response expectations.

Produce deliverables such as contingency playbooks, disruption after‑action reviews, and recovery action trackers.

Required Qualifications BS+ in Supply Chain, Business, or related field.12–15 years of global logistics experience, including carrier/forwarder governance and disruption management.

Strong analytical capability for lane performance and cost‑/service trade‑offs.

Preferred Qualifications Experience in pharmaceutical / biotech logistics and GDP‑aligned distribution environments.

Temperature‑controlled logistics and complex global lane network management experience.

Key Competencies Transportation / lane management, carrier/forwarder governance, and cost‑to‑serve optimization.

Performance dashboards and KPIs.

Disruption response, contingency planning, and recovery execution.

Escalation timing and decision trade‑offs.

GDP awareness, documentation controls, and audit readiness in partnership with Quality and Compliance.

Cross‑functional leadership, escalation, and executive‑ready risk / decision communication.

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