Senior Director, Authorized Treatment Center (ATC) Cell Therapy Operations

The role

The Senior Director leads the strategy, team, and operational performance of the treatment-center network. This role oversees center authorization, readiness, ongoing support, and network growth to support patient access.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the ATC Operations team.
• Set the ATC network strategy, multiyear plan, and annual objectives.
• Oversee center authorization, onboarding, readiness, support, monitoring, and deactivation.
• Provide operational leadership across tumor procurement, order intake, logistics, and manufacturing coordination.
• Lead operational reviews with company and treatment-center leaders.
• Maintain ATC operating standards and training requirements.
• Set performance measures for center readiness, capacity, and compliance.
• Simplify and standardize processes, systems, tools, and communications.
• Establish escalation procedures and response expectations for operational incidents.
• Represent Iovance in relevant industry forums and partnerships.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, nursing, health sciences, business, operations, or a related field
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in biopharmaceutical, oncology, cell therapy, healthcare operations, clinical operations, treatment-center operations, or a related environment
• At least six years of people-leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience supporting commercial-stage therapy and expanding or improving cell therapy treatment-center operations
• Deep understanding of oncology and cell therapy operations
• Experience managing the treatment-center lifecycle
• Working knowledge of the end-to-end cell therapy patient and product journey
• Demonstrated experience establishing governance, managing escalations, and leading cross-functional decisions
• Experience with quality systems and continuous improvement
• Ability to translate approved labeling, regulatory commitments, policies, and procedures into practical operating processes
• Experience in strategic and network planning, capacity management, budget management, resource forecasting, and business-continuity planning
• Ability to develop and interpret operational measures and trends

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in science, nursing, healthcare administration, business, operations, or a related discipline
• Experience with business intelligence, workflow, customer relationship management, quality, or operational management systems
• Experience with treatment-center network expansion, new-indication readiness, or improvements to commercial launch operations

About the company

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. is the global leader in innovating, developing, and delivering tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) cell therapies for patients with solid tumors. The company operates as an end-to-end cell therapy company with centralized U.S.-based manufacturing.