Director Global OpEx Quality Ecosystems Lead

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

Teva Lean Management System (TLMS) is a Teva-wide effort to design, implement, and sustain a lean production system, with an objective to reach world class manufacturing and supply performance across the network

• The Global OpEx Quality Ecosystems Lead focuses on the design of production system components and their underlying detailed operating standards and maturity assessment for the QC & QA ecosystems;
• The incumbent will develop rapidly deployable, world class lean management system components, including but not limited to ensuring consistency and integration with other ecosystems, as well as overseeing the pilot of new components, refinement and ongoing Continuous improvement (CI) of TLMS operating standards;
• This requires the aggregation of inputs from multiple stakeholders; workshops will be used to evaluate current and external approaches and to align on an agreed model;
• The role will oversee piloting, refinement and ongoing CI of the design proposals and is critical for ensuring consistency and integration across other ecosystem designs;
• The role will be responsible for best practice identification & sharing across the network for the QC & QA Ecosystem.

Location & Travel

Preferred location; Haarlem (NL), co-location in one of the TGO sites in Europe is possible

Travel is required, ability to travel – Up to 40%

How you’ll spend your day

• Aggregate inputs and address concerns from multiple stakeholders to reach true alignment on 'one best way';
• Understand world class approaches and incorporate these opportunities into the design process while balancing the drive for excellence against practical solutions;
• Define long term state for the ecosystem and translate this into maturity phases requirements and corresponding maturity and phase assessments.;
• Own and drive the continuous improvement of ecosystem standards
  • Ensure consistency and effective integration across ecosystems; partner with other Ecosystem leads to share and learn from best practices;
  • Ensure that ecosystem designs are delivered on time and codified effectively; develop playbooks to support ecosystem deployment training. Deliver training at different organization levels;
  • Align site and above site stakeholders to ensure designs are piloted, refined and improved effectively; ensure final designs are workable
• Build capabilities of site and when needed above site teams to leverage impact and value analysis to drive innovation and continuous improvement of Ecosystem standards while ensuring stability in the global design and deployment to sites;
• When applicable support TLMS Academy by supporting delivery of in-person and virtual learning courses, as well as serve as a learning coach, and qualify practitioners against competency matrix;
• Conduct Maturity Assessments for the QC & QA Ecosystem, and potentially other ecosystems, providing feedback and supporting plans to improve maturity;
• Own a benchmarking on ecosystems level to identify and disseminate best practices supporting performance improvement. Convert best practices into relevant standards and drive standardization.

Your experience and qualifications

• Bachelor degree in a Technical or Business field with 10+ years of relevant experience; Masters degree a plus with a minimum of 3+ years in a pharmaceutical quality role;
• Experience with design / installation and operation of world class production systems in a manufacturing environment. Specific experience in Quality (QC and/or QA) in one of the following areas in Pharma - Solids and/or Sterile drug Production, Packaging;
• Good understanding of BioPharma LMS (Lean Management Systems) e.g. iMEx, Integrated Work System (IWS) or similar production systems is a plus);
• Intellectual rigor and flexibility/tenacity to manage design trade-offs; evidence of innovation, problem-solving and structured thinking;
• Practicality to deliver workable solutions, capable of supporting processes from strategy to implementation;
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills;
• Excellent communication skills at various levels; demonstrated track record of leading and influencing organizations and/or teams;
• Proven capabilities in program management; success in executing projects with small & medium teams;
• Strong proficiency in Excel analytics and PowerPoint materials geared for senior site audiences; experience with SAP systems strongly preferred;
• Fluency in English required, other European language is preferred

Reports To

Sr. Dir. Global OpEx Strategic Program

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