Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Transformation Lead role is responsible for overseeing the development and execution of the Packaging & Device Assembly business units' strategic plan to ensure the realization of transformational initiatives. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring that interdependencies across enterprise initiatives are aligned and that risks and opportunities across the integrated plan are well understood. The Transformation Lead will lead key initiatives in support of the PDA BU strategy and act as the strategic plan owner for the integrated Business Unit Strategy Map Execution Plan. As a team leader, the role requires strong strategic planning, decision-making, networking, influencing, execution, and change facilitation skills. The Transformation Lead will direct and oversee a team of individual leaders, facilitate communication and alignment with key stakeholders, and address challenges and opportunities to enhance performance.

Primary Activities

Primary activities include, but are not limited to:

Overall portfolio management coordination/integration across strategic programs impacting the Packaging & Device Assembly Business Unit

• Navigate across division and enterprise to identify and align interdependent activities/initiatives

• Advocate for strategic intent to ensure connectivity/continuity across enterprise efforts

• Identify interdependencies/risks, ensure alignment on critical decision milestones/mitigations across enterprise, divisional, business unit initiatives

Lead key initiatives in support of PDA BU Strategy

• Lead cross-functionally and across enterprise teams

• Understand site/divisional/enterprise operations

• Facilitate strategic discussions across enterprise SMEs and stakeholders

• Define key assumptions and risk profiles for initiatives

Strategic Plan owner for integrated Business Unit Strategy Map Execution Plan

• Provide an integrated roadmap that informs divisional/enterprise programs on progress

• Facilitate annual review and updates

• Maintain intent, key assumptions, and risk profile

• Develop an interdependent roadmap guiding strategic execution over a 10-year period

As a team leader, the Transformation Lead is responsible for directing and overseeing a team of individual leaders' daily tasks and operations, providing guidance, assigning tasks, ensuring team productivity and engagement, facilitating communication and alignment with key stakeholders upstream and downstream, as well as supporting the growth and development of individual leaders.

The ideal candidate for this position should possess strong skills in navigating digital systems, critical thinking and analysis, problem-solving, resilience, clear communication, time management, and conflict resolution.

Experience:

• BS/MS in Engineering or Science equivalent

• Minimum of 5+ years of Good Manufacturing (Packaging) Process (GMP) experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in more than one functional area, such as Operations, Quality, Technology at a GMP manufacturing/packaging experience

• Leading enterprise directives/initiatives accountable for delivering measurable outcomes requiring negotiation and influence outside of direct management

• Cultivating / facilitating hoshin process, adapting to industry trends and fostering a culture of innovation

• Managing significant changes that require integration of people, intent and delivery to produce measurable results

Skills:

• Navigating digital systems to extract and approve information.

• Critical Thinking / Analysis – ability to interrogate data, summarize and draw conclusions.

• Hoshin facilitation – achieving strategic objectives, aligning all activities with the overarching strategic goals, and ensuring continuous improvement and adaptability to changing conditions.

• Resilient – ability to focus on what matters, block out distractors, while having a sense of urgency with calm energy

• Communication – Clear concise information flow oral and written between group, divisions etc. and levels.

• Time Management – Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple activities.

• Conflict resolution – Ability to resolve a problem or dispute in a positive way.

Competencies:

• Shape Future:

• Strategic Planning – Using team success; using appropriate methods and a flexible interpersonal style to build, motivate and guide a cohesive team to complete shared goals

• Decision Making – Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences

• Unlock Potential:

• Networking Partnership – Building partnerships; developing and leveraging relationships within and across work groups to achieve results

• Influence – Using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes

• Deliver Impact:

• Execution Excellence – Being execution and results-focused per compliance standards; setting ambitious expectations for accomplishment and ensuring others contribute to organization strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities, measuring progress and ensuring accountability against those metrics

• Change Catalyst – Facilitating change; encouraging others to implement better approaches to address problems and opportunities; leading the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace

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U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

The Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job in certain states and cities within the United States. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.

Expected US salary range:

$149,400.00 - $235,100.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here (https://www.benefitsatmerck.com/) .

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

Yes

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Remote

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

n/a

Job Posting End Date:

01/11/2025

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Requisition ID: R326645