Job Description
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. The Manufacturing Division Production Systems Team is responsible for driving our Company's Production System throughout the organization to enable change in the operating systems, management systems, and mindsets, 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 Systems Director, Development with work leaders and sites in as assigned. Approximately 50% of the time will be spent on the floor providing direct, hands-on support of activities, while 25% will be spent supporting the design, development, and deployment of Learning Assets to support building Production Systems Capability, and 25% other duties as assigned. Due to the nature of the work and diversity of sites, expected travel will be 50-75%, pandemic contingent. Virtual work may be significant under pandemic conditions
Manufacturing Division Production Systems Senior Specialist Description of Duties:

• Influence and link improvement objectives to the division priorities
• Develop Lean management and people development processes and plans
• Manage end-to-end processes and projects to drive results and realize intended business benefit
• Utilize various Lean Management System, tools, and techniques in alignment with the House of Production Systems to diagnose, analyze and improve business processes
• Provide teaching and coaching to effectively transfer Lean skills into the organization for the development of Lean Leaders
• Proactively managing learning processes to build and measure Production Systems Capability through the deployment of learning assets, repositories, and documents, procedures, and processes in a standard format that can be accessed and shared across the organization.

Manufacturing Division Production Systems Senior specialist Responsibilities & Capabilities:

• Provide guidance for our company's operations and identify key business opportunities through utilizing financial data.
• Proactively recognize and mitigate barriers to initiatives.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and challenge the status quo.
• Manage teams to mitigate risk, allocate resources, and drive on-time completion of initiatives.
• Mentor others on effective communication and active listening techniques to fully understand client/customer needs and expectations.
• Lead value deep process analysis through value stream mapping to measure stagnation of inventory and information and can lead kaizen to increase capacity and improve process performance.
• Develop visual controls and framework to make problems visible and respond with urgency to effectively break down complex problems, lead root cause analysis, and develop effective countermeasures.
• Lead and coach kaizen with a team to achieve target conditions.
• Lead kaizen to improve standardized work.
• Can design balanced work to takt time, with smooth flow and lead kaizen to reduce lead time, inventory, and change over time.
• Apply systematic problem solving to solve complex process problems.
• Able to engage sponsor s and clients, lead changes, and effectively coach leaders
• Build trust and develop new relationships with internal and external clients to effectively collaborate and achieve successful outcomes.
• Champion a culture of organizational learning across functions, sectors, and geographies by capturing, developing, sharing, and making the best use of knowledge. Leverage opportunities to benchmark and jointly share expertise with others.
• Support and standardize CoPs.

Qualifications/Experience:
Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Lean Practitioner.
• Experience analyzing complex end-to-end supply chains and driving process improvement
• Hands-on application of Lean management system, tools, and techniques: standardized work, scientific problem solving, value stream mapping, mistake proofing, SMED, 5S-Visual Factory, etc.
• 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), experience developing people and learning organization, project management skills, 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-Performance 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:

• Extensive Lean application experience, deep understanding, and successful application of TPS including people development.
• Excellent skills using IT applications to organize and analyze data (MS-Access, MS-Excel, Minitab).
• Experience in operations management, manufacturing, or related disciplines.
• Marketing/communication experience.
• Experience in a Vaccines or Sterile pharmaceutical environment.

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that's devoted to delivering a high quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.
Who we are ...
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, 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.
What we look for ...
In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.
Invent. Impact. Inspire.
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