External Manufacturing Operations (EMO), Senior Manager

Description

Company Overview

Creating a Healthier World through Accessible Biologics:

Kashiv BioSciences, LLC is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. Kashiv BioSciences, LLC in the United States, and its subsidiary, Kashiv BioSciences Private Limited in India (together “Kashiv BioSciences”), operate together with robust infrastructure and highly skilled teams that provide global R&D, clinical, manufacturing, regulatory, and IP capabilities. We believe our people, partners, and shared purpose fuel our work to advance patient care and access to important medicines.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Operations is the primary operational contact for assigned contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs/CDMOs), products, and manufacturing programs. This hands-on role coordinates routine manufacturing execution, technology transfer, campaign readiness, issue resolution, and partner performance to support reliable supply and compliant delivery of biologic drug substance and/or drug product.

The Senior Manager works through a matrix and partners closely with Manufacturing, Quality, MSAT, Supply Chain, Regulatory, CMC Development, Procurement, Legal, and Finance. The role executes approved external-manufacturing strategy for an assigned portfolio, recommends improvements, and escalates decisions that require broader network, contractual, financial, or product-disposition authority. During critical campaigns, the Senior Manager may provide on-site person-in-plant support at external manufacturing facilities.

What You Will Own

• Day-to-day operational governance of assigned CMO/CDMO relationships, products, and manufacturing campaigns.
• Manufacturing schedules, readiness milestones, action tracking, risk visibility, and cross-functional follow-through for the assigned portfolio.
• Routine partner meetings, operational reviews, escalation coordination, and performance reporting.
• Operational support for technology transfer, validation, process changes, investigations, and continuous improvement.
• Clear communication of manufacturing status, supply risks, decisions, and required actions to internal stakeholders and leadership.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

CMO Operations and Partner Performance

• Serve as the primary operational contact for assigned external manufacturing partners and maintain productive, accountable working relationships.
• Coordinate day-to-day manufacturing activities against approved production schedules, supply priorities, quality requirements, and program objectives.
• Lead routine operating meetings and contribute to quarterly or periodic business reviews using agreed metrics, risks, actions, and decisions.
• Monitor partner performance, including schedule adherence, on-time delivery, yield, right-first-time execution, deviation closure, and action-item completion.
• Identify execution risks early, develop practical mitigation plans with internal and external teams, and escalate issues through the appropriate governance pathway.
• Provide on-site person-in-plant support during selected engineering, validation, clinical, or commercial manufacturing campaigns when needed.

Technology Transfer and Manufacturing Execution

• Coordinate operational readiness for technology transfers, scale-up, process validation, PPQ, new-product introductions, and lifecycle changes at assigned CMOs.
• Partner with MSAT, CMC Development, Engineering, Quality, and Regulatory colleagues to confirm that technical deliverables, documentation, materials, equipment, training, and facility readiness are aligned before execution.
• Track transfer plans, validation milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions; maintain clear ownership and due dates across the project team.
• Support manufacturing troubleshooting and facilitate timely resolution of technical and operational issues without replacing the accountable Quality, MSAT, Regulatory, or product-disposition functions.
• Capture lessons learned and implement repeatable tools, templates, and operating practices across the assigned portfolio.

Quality, Compliance, and Regulatory Support

• Ensure assigned manufacturing activities are planned and executed in accordance with cGMP, approved procedures, quality agreements, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality to support deviations, investigations, CAPAs, change controls, complaints, audits, and inspection-readiness activities.
• Monitor the operational impact of qual