MSD Director Manufacturing Operations m/f/d 

Switzerland, Bern 

577288785

Job Description

Leadership:

• Sets performance targets that align with business priorities and drives continuous improvement initiatives.

• Develops the organization and culture (including values and behaviors such as empowerment, diversity, equity, and inclusion, accountability, trust, open communication)

• Serve on the Site Coordination Team to develop and deliver toward site and organizational priorities and strategy.

• Manage and develop operations team personnel toward strong, empowered leaders. Build, inspire, reward and develop diverse talent with the capabilities necessary to succeed in manufacture.

• Drive execution and operational excellence by applying Lean principles to foster continuous improvement mindset to deliver a productive and agile operating model.

• Resolve resource and prioritization constraints and support resource needs and changes.

Management:

• Drive a strong compliance mindset within the organization, including proactive safety and quality culture, and adherence to all regulatory expectations (GMP and EHS).

• Establish and deliver on KPI’s in a timely manner, including schedule adherence, training, hiring, uptime, change controls, investigations, CAPAs, capital/expense targets, sustainability targets, yield/volume/cadence/operational availability, Right First Time, and timely documentation closure.

• Oversees planning and coordination of Manufacturing Operations activities including manufacturing and process technology transfers.

• Designs and operationalizes technology transfer processes that deliver right first-time manufacturing of biologics to support the pipeline.

• Responsible for prioritization of proposed risk mitigation plans and/or acceptance of Quality Risks identified as part of the Quality Risk Management Process.

• Provide clear direction and definition of any new project scope, goals and deliverables, to the site and functional teams on an on-going basis

• Resolve issues and identify risks in a timely fashion to the relevant on-site and above-site Stakeholders.

• Manage financial forecasts and workload to achieve departmental headcount and pipeline deliverables

Required Education, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) or equivalent in biology, chemical engineering, or a related discipline with at least 12 years or master’s degree (M.S.) with at least 10 years previous experience in a relevant position in GMP manufacturing in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry

• Experience in GMP drug substance manufacturing using mammalian cell culture, including upstream and downstream processing

• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, including leading and coaching direct team to drive a high-performance organizational culture that accommodates rapid growth & highly dynamic operating execution.

• The desire to continuously learn, improve and grow, and cultivate continued development within the team

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams (Manager of Managers)

• Excellent oral / written communication skills in English (C1), and German (B2)

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Qualification and training in economics and LEAN management

• Experience with evolution of regulatory requirements

• Experience with Cross-Functional Investigations and Root Cause Analysis Techniques.

Current Contingent Workers apply

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