Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Bavarian Nordic A/S; Kvistgård; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Bavarian Nordic is seeking a Vice President for Global Supply Chain to lead a globally integrated, end-to-end supply chain and drive operational excellence across service, cost, cash, and quality.

Based in Kvistgård, Denmark or Thorishaus, Switzerland, you will shape the target operating model, build leadership capability, and partner with commercial, operations, finance, and IT to deliver reliable, cost-efficient supply to patients worldwide.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading end-to-end supply chain in global, regulated environments.
• Proven track record building high-performing leadership teams.
• Strong understanding of integrated business planning, logistics, and network performance.
• Ability to navigate complexity across functions, geographies, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Global Supply Chain org to deliver reliable, cost-efficient supply to customers and patients globally.
• Drive end-to-end performance across service, cost, cash, sustainability, risk, and quality compliance.
• Implement and stabilize the Global Supply Chain target operating model with clear roles, governance, interfaces, and decision rights.
• Partner 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 accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.

Skills

Global SCM leadership

End-to-end supply chain

Leadership team building

Integrated planning

Digital transformation

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

At Bavarian Nordic, we are committed to saving and improving lives by unlocking the power of the immune system. Our commercial product portfolio includes market-leading vaccines against smallpox, mpox, rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, typhoid fever, and cholera. We excel in R&D innovation, manufacturing, and commercialization, striving to improve people's health and quality of life worldwide, protecting our tomorrow.

Bavarian Nordic has grown significantly and serves an increasingly complex global vaccine business across products, geographies, customers, and partners. A mature and resilient supply chain is critical to sustaining reliable service, supporting profitable growth, strengthening customer confidence, and ensuring that high-quality vaccines reach patients and customers when and where they are needed.

Due to internal promotion, we are now seeking a Vice President for Global Supply Chain.

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.

As our new VP for Global Supply Chain, you will play a key leadership role in continuing the transformation of Global Supply Chain from a more transactional and fragmented setup into an end-to-end, digitally enabled, performance-driven and globally integrated function.

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.

Additional location

• Kvistgaard

Location

Thorishaus

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.

For more information, visit www.bavarian-nordic.com