CMC Associate Director

Overview

Location: Central London (office-based). Salary: £85,000-£108,000. Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent. Experience Level: Senior (10-14 years).

Androlabs is a pharmaceutical company focused on men's health. We aim to close the male life expectancy gap by tackling health awareness, access to care, and treatment. Our team collaborates with healthcare professionals to raise awareness, improve education, and remove barriers to care. We are a diverse, growing company with a network across multiple countries and languages, committed to knowledge, transparency, agency, and first principle thinking.

Androlabs is part of Tithonia Group, an entrepreneurial life sciences company.

The Role

We are looking for a CMC Associate Director to join our growing team. This is the most senior technical role in the business for manufacturing and development. You will report to the co-founder in charge of Portfolio and own the end-to-end delivery of all CMC and pharmaceutical development programmes across our portfolio-from technology transfers and CDMO management to product development, process innovation, and regulatory dossier input. You will work closely with the regulatory team and direct a network of CDMOs and specialist contractors. There is no large development organisation behind you; you assemble, lead, and hold accountable the external network that makes our products. You set the strategy, run the programmes, manage the partnerships, and own the outcomes. Deliver CMC and development projects on time and to specification. Manage a CDMO network to maintain high technical and commercial standards. Keep CMC strategy integrated into regulatory, clinical, and commercial planning from day one of every programme.

Who You Will Work With

Our co-founders, the Regulatory Affairs team, our CMC Associate, and a network of external CDMOs, technical consultants, and specialist contractors across EU and UK markets.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead product development and redevelopment from brief to GMP readiness, including formulation, process development, and analytical method development.
• Own technology transfers end to end: procurement, CDMO selection, process validation, and regulatory approval.
• Define and execute comparability strategies that satisfy internal quality requirements and regulatory variation standards.
• Drive manufacturing process improvement to enhance efficiency, cost, quality, and supply reliability.
• Develop CMC strategies in collaboration with regulatory, clinical, and commercial teams; provide CMC input into regulatory submissions.
• Own the CMC project portfolio with live status, risks, dependencies, timelines, and budgets across active programmes.
• Manage the CMC budget: forecast project costs, approve spend, and report to leadership.
• Source, qualify, onboard CDMOs and technical partners; negotiate terms and execute agreements.
• Maintain the CDMO risk register and ongoing performance management.
• Build and maintain a network of specialist CMC contractors and consultants for project-specific expertise.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Qualifications: 10-14 years in pharmaceutical manufacturing, technology transfer, and/or product development, with end-to-end ownership of projects.