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This role provides leadership to the IPT and will also represent the business area on the Wilson Site Leadership Team.\nPrimary Activities:\nPrimary responsibilities for this position include providing tactical and strategic direction to the IPT. This includes ensuring that business objectives are met, a high standard for Quality and EHS compliance is maintained, and the IPT operates efficiently and within budget. The position will also be expected to promote continuous improvement within the IPT (aligned with lean manufacturing principles) and maintain an inclusive culture that supports positive employee relations. Additional activities, responsibilities, and competencies include but are not limited to the following:\nCompliance:\nEnsure that operations are executed in compliance with Safety, Environmental, Quality (cGMP), and Labor regulations.\nDemonstrate leadership by maintaining a safe workplace and managing actions to prevent safety incidents. \nInvestigate, determine root cause, and implement robust CAPAs for any compliance discrepancies noted during activities, trend reviews, internal audits, or inspections.\nDelivery:\nUtilize a high degree of independent judgment and decision-making to direct production, packaging, and support personnel to ensure customer supply requirements are achieved.\nResolve and escalate issues impacting supply within the daily, weekly, and monthly IPT and site management processes.\nCost:\nDevelop budget for the IPT and ensure that activities are carried out in accordance with budget forecast. \nIdentify and execute capital projects needed to support the IPT short and long-term strategies.\nRecognize and implement opportunities for efficiency and financial savings including elimination of waste. \nPeople and Team:\nDefine and staff positions necessary to execute multi-shift operations at the Wilson site.\nProvide leadership to the cross-functional team and direct Operations team providing coaching, development, and performance management where appropriate.\nEnsure culture of inclusion and consistency is maintained supporting positive employee relations within the team and site.\n Build effective relationships with other functional areas as well as stakeholders across our Company network.\nStrategic Support and Continuous Improvement:\nHelp develop the strategy for the IPT as well as tactical plans to meet those goals.\nEmbed a culture of continuous improvement and MPS into the Operations team focused on standard work, making problems visible, minimizing waste, reducing process variability, and problem solving.\nIdentify and implement opportunities for process optimization and efficiency.\nProvide site support and leadership to high-priority network strategies and initiatives.\nEducation Minimum Requirement:\nB.A./ B.S. degree (preferably in Science or Engineering related field), Master’s Degree preferred\nRequired Experience and Skills:\nMinimum 12 years relevant industry experience across multiple functions (Operations, Quality, Technical, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, etc.)\nConcurrently, minimum 5 years Operations experience with some responsibility managing multi-layered organizations.\nStrong leadership and influencing skills: ability to drive change, influence stakeholders, and motivate teams to achieve stretch goals.\nWorking knowledge of cGMP and regulatory requirements as they apply to the pharmaceutical industry\nStrong communication skills: ability to effectively communicate with cross-functional teams, above-site stakeholders, and external authorities.\nWilling to work irregular hours to support multi-shift operation on an as needed basis\nPreferred Experience and Skills:\nExperience leading a complex manufacturing or packaging operation within a plant site (Operations, Quality, or Technical role)\nExperience licensing a new facility or start-up/scale-up of new capital installations for commercial supply\nExperience in continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, problem solving, and/or right first time methodologies\nFamiliarity with change execution management and behavioral coaching / consequence management tools\nStrong written and verbal communication including presentation skills and technical writing experience (investigations, change requests, standard operating procedures, protocols, etc.)\nProject management skills: ability to prioritize tasks, manage timelines, and meet deadlines.\nExperience supporting regulatory inspections (FDA, EMA, etc.)\nRequired Skills:\nDP Operations, Leadership, Lean Manufacturing, Packaging, People Leadership, Plant Operations, Process Optimization, Production Scheduling, Safety Compliance, Sterile Manufacturing, Strategic Planning, Team Collaboration, Team StrategyPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nUS and Puerto Rico Residents Only:\nOur company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.\nAs an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Asa federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:\nEEOC Know Your Rights\nEEOC GINA Supplement\nWe are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.\nLearn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts\nThe salary range for this role is\n$173,200.00 - $272,600.00This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.\nThe successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.\nWe offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.\nYou can apply for this role through https://jobs.merck.com/us/en (or via the Workday Jobs Hub if you are a current employee). The application deadline for this position is stated on this posting.\nSan Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. 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