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Track

Executive

Family rungs priced

E1 · E2 · E3 · E4 · E5

11-0000

manufacturing

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Executive who leads the overall CMC strategy, manufacturing science, and regulatory compliance function across a pharmaceutical or biotech company's product portfolio. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.

What this level does

Leads multiple CMC-related functions (regulatory CMC, analytical development, manufacturing science, quality) through VPs and Directors, integrating them into a coherent development-to-commercial pathway
Shapes cross-functional CMC strategy where decisions on manufacturing scale-up, method validation and submission timing carry consequences material to program viability
Negotiates critical CMC matters directly with health-authority reviewers and top partner leadership, resolving abstract technical and regulatory issues of high consequence for the pipeline
Governs vendor and external-manufacturing partner networks at portfolio scale, setting the standards for method transfer, remediation and compliance across all managed programs
Establishes the risk framework that principal scientists and directors apply when assessing regulatory success and mitigation across late-stage and commercial products

Knowledge applied: Applies cross-functional CMC expertise spanning regulatory, analytical, manufacturing science and quality to integrate multiple functions into one development-to-commercial pathway.
Complexity & problem solving: Tackles abstract, high-consequence issues where scale-up, validation and submission-timing decisions may affect program viability.
Collaboration & interaction: Negotiates critical CMC matters with health-authority reviewers and top partner leadership.
Typical experience: 15+ years, with strategic leadership of multiple CMC functions or a significant development unit.

Skills at this level

CMC Regulatory Submission Management: — Manages execution of CMC documentation including IND, IMPD, CTA, NDA, BLA, post-approval supplements, annual reports and registration renewals, and authors responses to health-authority questions.
Phase-Appropriate CMC Strategy: — Develops and executes global product and project regulatory strategies with robust assessment of global CMC requirements matched to the product's stage of development.
Regulatory Success Risk Assessment: — Assesses the probability of regulatory success for a product and defines the risk-mitigation measures needed to secure regulatory milestones through development.
Analytical Method Life Cycle Management: — Owns method remediation, validation, transfer, troubleshooting and OOT/OOS investigations along with data trending analysis for late-stage and commercial methods.
Technology Transfer & Manufacturing Readiness: — Directs transfer of processes and methods into manufacturing and ensures CMC documentation and processes are ready to support production at scale.
External Manufacturing Partner Management: — Selects and governs contract manufacturers and vendors, managing them to deliver CMC deliverables and maintain product integrity across the drug-development process.
Health Authority Negotiation: — Represents the organization's CMC positions to regulatory agencies, negotiating critical technical and compliance matters and defending the chemistry and manufacturing story.
Global CMC Compliance & Audit Oversight: — Sets and maintains large-scale manufacturing compliance posture and directs compliance audits so that CMC practices meet evolving regulator expectations across regions.
CMC Product Leadership: — Serves as accountable lead for a product's entire CMC regulatory destiny, coordinating delivery of all regulatory milestones through development and into commercialization.
Cross-Functional CMC Integration: — Aligns regulatory affairs, quality assurance, analytical development and manufacturing to ensure product integrity and coherent CMC deliverables throughout drug development.
Technical Authority & Mentorship: — Acts as scientific and technical authority within and across CMC functions, guiding local, regional and global associates so development and regulatory strategies stay current.
Corporate CMC Policy Development: — Drives company-wide CMC policies and regulatory-negotiation standards that define how subordinate development, analytical and manufacturing functions operate.

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Pay across the ladder

Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC) — median with , by . Real canon data.

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 11-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+8.3%Architectural and Engineering Managers · United States

194,250 → 210,340 jobs

14,500 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 13,693

Growth — new jobs (6%)Exits — backfill (94%)

6% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +3.8%
Growth share of hiring: 6%
Exit / retention pressure high: 94%
Openings / year: 14,500

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level E2 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$555k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$498k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$460k

Boulder, CO$454k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$454k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$435k

Lexington Park, MD$424k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$421k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $333k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates E2 (E2 — Senior Director (Executive)) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Multiple functions or a major area
Autonomy: Owns area-level strategy
Complexity: Multi-function strategy and risk
Impact: Major-area outcomes
Decision rights: Owns strategy and resourcing across functions
Leadership: Leads function leaders

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from E2 is E3.

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Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
CMC Senior Supervisor	jf_chemistry_manufacturing_controls_cmc::M2	$113,967	confident0.06
CMC Chemist	jf_chemistry_manufacturing_controls_cmc::P2	$74,658	confident0.06
CMC Associate	jf_chemistry_manufacturing_controls_cmc::S2	$44,288	confident0.06
Vice President, Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC)	jf_chemistry_manufacturing_controls_cmc::E1	$174,847	confident0.06

Capability cluster

O*NET 11-9041

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

E2

jf_chemistry_manufacturing_controls_cmc::E2

SVP, Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls

Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls (CMC)

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: E
Superfunction: manufacturing
Function: manufacturing_expansion
Family: chemistry_manufacturing_controls_cmc
Universal level: 2 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Lean Manufacturing · E2review0.17

Machine Shop · E2review0.17

Maintenance · E2review0.17

Manufacturing Engineering · E2review0.17

Pilot Plant Operations · E2review0.17

Production Test · E2review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 11-9041	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)