The Sr. Supply Chain Excellence Strategist individual contributor who defines, owns, and advances enterpriseāwide strategies, frameworks, and transformation portfolios that shape how CSLās global Supply Chain operates and evolves.
This role holds enterprise accountability for the design and execution of core Supply Chain Excellence strategies, including global change management strategy, transformation governance models, and operatingāmaturity advancement. Operating with significant autonomy, the Senior Strategist sets strategic direction within defined excellence domains, serves as the decision authority for assigned portfolios and initiatives, and coācreates broader enterprise strategies in partnership with the Supply Chain Excellence Lead.
The role operates at the intersection of strategy definition, portfolio governance, and enterprise change, translating longāterm maturity objectives (2+ year horizon) into scalable frameworks, standards, and investment roadmaps. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, the Senior Strategist provides enterpriseālevel insights, scenarios, and recommendations that directly influence Supply Chain leadership decisions, capability investments, and operating model design across regions and functions.
This position reports to Supply Chain Excellence Lead.
Responsibilities:
Define and own enterpriseāwide Supply Chain Excellence strategies and frameworks, including global change management strategy, transformation governance models, and maturity advancement approaches, ensuring alignment with Supply Chain and enterprise priorities.
Own a portfolio of enterprise transformation initiatives, accountable for strategic coherence, sequencing, value realization, and longāterm capability outcomes across multiple programs and workstreams.
Serve as the decision authority for assigned excellence domains and initiatives, establishing guardrails, escalation thresholds, and tradeāoff frameworks; partner with the Supply Chain Excellence Lead on broader enterprise decisions.
Translate enterprise strategy into operating models and standards, defining how planning, governance, execution, and performance management should function consistently across regions and functions.
Architect and evolve enterprise governance mechanisms, including portfolio health, interdependency management, benefits realization, and escalation models, ensuring transparency and executive confidence in transformation outcomes.
Design and steward global change and adoption frameworks, setting expectations for how transformation is led, measured, and sustained across the Supply Chain; ensure consistent application and maturity progression.
Lead enterpriseālevel problem solving and scenario design, addressing complex, ambiguous challenges that span process, system, data, and organizational boundaries with material business and patient impact.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree required
12ā15+ years of experience in supply chain, operations, or enterprise transformation roles within large, complex, global organizations.
Certifications in project management, LEAN/CI, or change management beneficial (PMP, Six Sigma, Prosci) preferred.
Demonstrated success defining and owning enterprise strategies, frameworks, or operating models, not only delivering programs.
Proven accountability for portfolioālevel outcomes spanning multiple initiatives, regions, and functions
Track record acting as a decision authority within defined domains, influencing executiveālevel outcomes.
The expected base salary range for this position at hiring is $178,000 - $229,000. Please note this salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base pay that CSL expects to pay for this position at the listed location as of the time of this posting. Individual base salary for a successful candidate is determined by qualifications, skill level, experience, competencies and other relevant factors. In addition to base salary, total compensation for this role may also include incentive compensation and equity.
Different qualifications or responsibilities may apply based on local legal and/or educational requirements. Refer to local job documentation where applicable.
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patientsā needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the worldās largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL ViforĀ visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
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