Director, Pharmaceutical Commercialization Technology

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of small molecules, biologics, and vaccines across human and animal health. We are building a new kind of healthcare company, one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us. Join our team and contribute to our mission of delivering innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals.

• →Drive development of product portfolio including overall plan for control strategy development, experimental designs across scales, execution of experimental plans, and data analysis with the goal of creating robust control strategies that will lead to reliable supply.
• →Drive results and executional excellence within the department’s portfolio, impacting multiple layers of the organization and other lines within PCT.
• →Drive operational excellence by clarifying and translating priorities into actionable steps and holding teams accountable to deliver against priorities.
• →Recognize gaps in systems and drive improvement in process and department function, sponsoring and driving a culture of continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• →Develop critical partner relationships and create sponsorship frameworks with peers to ensure the success of highly cross-functional teams.
• →Actively sponsor the creation of high-performing teams with peers and ensure necessary technical reviews are occurring proactively with the right cross-section of peer partner groups.
• →Utilize a sophisticated employee development toolkit across many levels within the organization, including people managers, senior scientific staff, and new hires.
• →Help teams drive programmatic strategy including regulatory, siting, and tech transfer, and assist in creating financial forecasts.
• →Lead change throughout the organization with a well-developed change leadership toolkit.
• →Oversee the department’s core functions including PCT Source (clinical supply stewardship), the APEX (Applied Pharmaceutical Engineering & eXperimentation) supply-support facility, safety teams, digital strategy, compliance, modeling, risk assessment platforms, diversity and inclusion, due diligence, and capital projects.

Required

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences or related scientific field with a minimum of twelve (12) years of required experience; OR Master of Science (M.S.) with a minimum of ten (10) years; OR Ph.D. degree with a minimum of eight (8) years.
• Possesses deep technical and subject matter expertise with the function.
• Knowledge of oral drug product formulation and process development, proven track record in small molecule commercial process development, scale-up, and technology transfer to supply.
• Applies a deep understanding of new product development and commercialization.
• Experienced in the end-to-end development of drug products from commercialization through to supply.
• Experience with authoring regulatory submissions and responding to regulatory questions.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Effective delegation skills and demonstrated ability to drive improvement priorities in addition to driving the portfolio.
• Demonstrated ability in leading and sponsoring cross-functional teams.
• Strength in delivering results on firm deadlines.
• Experience with leading organizational change.

Preferred

• Experience in supporting supply investigations.
• Proficient in situational effectiveness and can structure communications to technical teams and executive level.

Location: Rahway, NJ preferred. Candidate will have reports based in Rahway and West Point, PA, so travel to West Point will be required.

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This 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.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We 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.

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