Operational Readiness Sr Associate

Operational Readiness Sr Associate

Team Horizon is seeking an Operational Readiness Sr Associate for a client in Dublin who will be responsible for ensuring operational readiness by supporting cross-functional execution across all major milestones.

The person in this role will enable day-to-day execution by coordinating inputs across Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, EHS and other stakeholders, ensuring dependencies are understood, decisions are actioned, and readiness activities remain on track. The Operational Readiness Sr. Associate will monitor compliance and adherence metrics.

Why you should apply:

• This is an excellent opportunity to join a world class manufacturing operation, with an outstanding track record of reliably delivering high-quality medicines to patients around the world suffering serious illnesses.


• There is a strong culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the company to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives.


• Our client is developing the capability to produce all its medicines in Dublin, helping to ensure continuity of supply of our medicines as they expand internationally.

What you will be doing:

• Support operational readiness planning and execution across all key milestones.


•  Maintain a forward-looking view of execution needs (12–18 months) to ensure equipment, commissioning, qualification and manufacturing preparedness activities are sequenced to enable safe start-up and reliable operations.


• Align Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, EHS and other functional readiness plans into a single execution rhythm, ensuring handoffs, constraints and critical dependencies are understood and actively managed.


• Provide clear visibility of readiness status, identify operational risks and escalate emerging issues to maintain compliance, safety and reliability.


• Establish consistent ways of working for readiness reviews, decision logging and action closure to keep teams aligned and accountable.


• Establish and enforce structured progress tracking mechanisms across all workstreams.


• Ensure timely updates from functional teams and validate accuracy of reported progress, track milestone readiness and ensure alignment with overall project timelines.
  Hold teams to account through identifying performance gaps and drive accountability with stakeholders.


• Support regular reporting cycles with accurate, data-driven insights, proactively identify schedule risks, bottlenecks, and dependency conflicts.


• Escalate risks that could impact critical milestones such as Media Fill or PPQ and should partner with stakeholders to define mitigation plans and track resolution.


• Ensure all functions are aligned to a single integrated schedule and planning framework and act as a central coordination point for schedule-related decision-making.

What you need to apply:

• Strong understanding of project lifecycle phases (commissioning, qualification, etc.).


• Ability to manage complex, cross-functional dependencies.


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.


• AI mindset


• Prior Manufacturing experience or relevant experience in pharma/biotech or large-scale project environments preferred.