Transformation & Center of Excellence Strategy Director

Date: Sep 5, 2025

Location:

Haarlem, Netherlands, 2031 GA

Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals

Job Id: 63840

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

Teva Europe is undergoing an ambitious transformation journey to build future-ready Centers of Excellence (CoE) that drive strategic impact, operational efficiency, and innovation. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced leader to join our Strategy & Transformation team as Transformation & CoE Strategy Director. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping Teva’s European CoE roadmap, overseeing program execution, and embedding internal transformation capabilities.

How you’ll spend your day

1. Program Execution & Delivery Oversight
• Lead end-to-end program execution across transformation initiatives.
• Oversee vendor delivery, ensuring key milestones, budget governance, and contractual commitments are met.
• Manage risk identification, escalation, and mitigation planning.
• Provide regular progress reporting to leadership with insights and recommendations on priorities.
2. Strategic Roadmap Development
• Co-develop the multi-year CoE strategic roadmap in partnership with hub leads and the European Leadership Team.
• Define and evolve future CoE operating models, capabilities, and scope expansion opportunities.
• Align strategy with business priorities and long-term organizational goals.
3. Governance & Performance Management
• Lead governance forums (e.g., SteerCo, Leadership Team updates).
• Drive performance management processes, including KPI tracking, dashboarding, and benefit realization frameworks.
• Monitor and report on maturity and value creation throughout roll-out.
4. Capability Building & Knowledge Management
• Strengthen Teva’s internal transformation capabilities through playbooks, frameworks, and best practice sharing.
• Build change management capacity across teams to support sustainable transformation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on CoE transformation.

Your experience and qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategy, transformation, or consulting roles, ideally within pharma, life sciences, or large-scale global organizations.
• Proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional transformation programs.
• Strong experience in governance design, performance management, and vendor delivery oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strategic roadmaps and translate them into executable plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior leadership levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in KPI/benefit tracking frameworks.
• Prior experience in building transformation playbooks or CoE models is an advantage.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable presenting to C-suite and governance forums.
• Collaborative leader able to engage across functions, geographies, and seniorities.
• Resilient, adaptable, and proactive in navigating ambiguity.
• Passionate about driving change and building organizational capabilit

Reports To

Strategic Associate Director to EVP Commercial Europe

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