Job Description
An exciting opportunity has become available for an Associate Director, Business Consulting, Lab Transformation.
Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company—one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us. Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity, and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.
Our Company’s Production System is an integrated production system for how we design, manage, and continuously improve our operations and supporting business processes, enabled through the development of our people. Our Company’s Manufacturing Team is responsible for driving our Production System throughout the organization to enable change in the operating systems, management systems, and mindsets and behaviors and capabilities of our people to produce product at the highest quality, for the lowest cost, and in the shortest lead time.
Under the direction of the Production System Director, the Associate Director, Lab Transformation will work with leaders and sites in the region. Approximately 50% of the time will be spent on the floor providing direct, hands-on support of activities, while 25% will be spent coaching leaders within line of business, function, or Region.
Due to the nature of the work and diversity of sites, expected travel will be 50-75%.

MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENT AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a science or engineering discipline with eight (8) years of experience or equivalent, successfully bringing about improvements in QO/QA and lab specifically. OR
• Master’s Degree in a science or engineering discipline with six (6) years of experience or equivalent, successfully bringing about improvements in QO/QA and lab specifically. OR
• PhD in a science or engineering discipline with three (3) years of experience or equivalent, successfully bringing about improvements in QO/QA and lab specifically.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Lean expertise experience ideal
• Experience analyzing complex end-to-end supply chains and driving process improvement
• Hands-on application of Lean tools and techniques: standardized work, scientific problem solving, value stream mapping, mistake proofing, SMED, 5S-Visual Factory
• Experience applying consultative skills: ability to influence decision making, ability to interact with all levels of the business (senior leaders to shop floor working teams), project management skills (demonstrated experience in managing large teams), solid business acumen, proven team building skills, exceptionally good listening skills, results oriented, strong analytical skills, and prior process improvement experience
• Coaching, Teaching, and driving a high performing organization. Proven experience in coaching and teaching others to think, behave and apply lean methods and tools.
• Experience enabling and leveraging diverse perspectives, talents, etc. to achieve business outcomes.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Preferably has worked in a lab or led labs
• Secondary degree in supply chain or business administration
• Lean application experience, deep understanding, and successful application of TPS.
• Excellent skills using IT applications to organize and analyze date (MS-Access, MS-Excel, Minitab).
• Experience in operations management, manufacturing, or related disciplines.
• Experience in a Vaccines or Sterile pharmaceutical environment.

WHO WE ARE

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

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