Senior CMO Manager, Biologics Production

Senior CMO Manager, Biologics Production

Are you ready to take ownership of the technical interface towards CMO manufacturing? Working closely with skilled SMEs and a broad range of stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring successful execution across Lundbeck’s biologics portfolio. If you thrive on coordination, collaboration, and driving technical activities in a complex environment, this could be your next opportunity to make a difference in brain health.

Your new role

As Senior CMO Manager, you will be responsible for coordination of commercial biologics manufacturing across a global CMO network and serve as the primary point of contact for manufacturing operations and supply execution.

You will combine technical expertise, operational leadership, and business insight to ensure reliable, compliant manufacturing throughout the product lifecycle.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading commercial Drug Substance and Drug Product manufacturing activities.


• Act as the operational integrator ensuring technical, quality, and supply activities move together effectively


• Managing relationships and manufacturing execution across global CMOs while ensuring batch production readiness, reliable supply, high quality and timely delivery.


• Leading cross-functional activities and task forces to resolve manufacturing, supply, and quality-related challenges in close collaboration with internal stakeholders and CMOs.


• Supporting and coordinating Subject Matter Experts across technical disciplines without formal people management responsibility.


• Driving deviations, change controls, investigations, risk management, process improvements, and manufacturing optimization initiatives.


• Providing oversight of commercial manufacturing activities, including batch release support, regulatory interactions, and acting as Person in Plant when required.


• Leading initiatives for process optimization to ensure cost-effective manufacturing throughout the product life cycle and lowering the COGs


• Contributing to strategic manufacturing planning, capacity management, forecasting, budgets, and CMO business cases.


• Supporting transfer of late-stage development projects into commercial manufacturing.

Your future team

You will join CMC Biologics, a organization of 115+ skilled colleagues located in Copenhagen and our Center of Excellence in Seattle, US.

Reporting to the Senior Director for Biologics Production, you will work closely with a team of five experts responsible for commercial manufacturing of Drug Substance and Drug Product across a global CMO network.

Collaboration is key to our success. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including CMC Development, Corporate Quality Biologics QA/QC, and Regulatory Affairs, to ensure seamless production and product release. Expect 2-4 business trips annually to CMO partners in Europe, Asia and United States.

The position is based in Valby, Denmark

What you bring to the team

We are looking for an experienced professional with a strong background in biologics manufacturing and CMO operations.

To succeed in this role, you bring:

• A MSc or PhD in pharmacy, biotechnology, chemistry, biological sciences, or a related discipline.


• Solid experience managing commercial manufacturing activities at CMOs within pharma or biotech.


• Solid understanding of biologics Drug Substance and Drug Product manufacturing


• Experience working in GMP-regulated environments, including deviations, change controls, investigations, and batch release support.


• Experience leading cross-functional activities and acting as a key point of contact across internal and external stakeholders.


• A collaborative leadership approach with the ability to guide and support Subject Matter Experts without formal people management responsibility.


• Strong business understanding, including experience supporting budgets, forecasting, cost optimization, and CMO business cases.


• A proactive and solution-oriented mindset with strong stakeholder management skills.

Experience supporting commercialization, product lifecycle management, or late-stage biologics development is considered an advantage.

Our promise to you  

Lundbeck offers an inspiring workplace and innovative culture, where our curiosity, accountability and adaptability enable us to transform lives. We want to go faster and further on addressing the big unmet needs of people living with brain disorders. We offer rewarding careers with a mix of exciting tasks and development opportunities that are balanced with initiatives focused on your well-being.

We need every brain in the game, and at Lundbeck, we are committed to building a workforce that is as diverse as the people we serve. Read more about our commitment at www.lundbeck.com/global/about-us/our-commitment/diversity-and-inclusion.

Annual base salary range: 786 000 - 1 081 300DKK gross

At Lundbeck, we are committed to fair and transparent pay. Please note that the final base salary within the stated range will be based on relevant qualifications, skills, competencies, and level of proficiency as well as internal pay equity.

Can you see yourself in this role? We want to hear from you. Does this sound like your dream job, but you’re not sure if you meet all the requirements? We still want to hear from you!

Upload your CV and include a few lines about your motivation for applying. We ask you not to include a photo or personal information that does not relate to your professional experience.

If you have questions, please contact Kenny Jessen, Senior Director, at [email protected]

Applications must be received by June 15th

Learn more about us at www.lundbeck.com, LinkedIn or Instagram (@h_lundbeck).

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