Director, OPEX

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

We are currently seeking a Director, OPEX to join our team. This position has overall responsibility for the leadership, development, execution, and maintenance of Operational Excellence / Continuous Improvement for the Teva Canada Site’s and the New Jersey, Cincinnati, and Florida locations.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

• Identify, prioritize, lead, and execute improvement projects across all functions of the business.
• Build Operational Excellence capabilities across Teva Canada Sites.
• Oversight and ownership of Gross Margin Enhancement activities across Teva Canada Sites.
• Engagement cross-functionally at all levels to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ownership of site metrics to identify opportunities to drive improvement.
• Ensure the adoption of fundamental OPEX principles across Teva Canada Sites such as 5S, Gemba, visual factory, standard work, etc.
• Training campus personnel on Operational Excellence principles.
• Management and development of direct reports and indirect (if applicable) reports.
• Responsible for completing all training requirements and maintaining 100% compliance with all assignments.
• Responsible for maintaining work areas and performing job functions in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with company policies and procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP’s), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and Batch Record instructions.
• Responsible for performing additional related duties as assigned.

Your Experience And Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in a scientific or engineering discipline, or equivalent education.
• 10+ years relevant progressive experience in a manufacturing environment.
• 5+ years’ experience as a change agent / leader in a lean environment, preferably pharmaceutical production. Preferred : Operational Excellence experience in a regulated industry such as pharmaceutical, nutraceutical or food processing industries.
• Lean certification preferred.
• Computer proficiency with comprehensive working knowledge of MS Office products (365).
• Excellent Excel Skills, Project management and advanced presentation skills.
• Experience in and working knowledge of a variety of functions such as manufacturing, quality, validation, and supply chain.

Experience with and an in-depth knowledge of cGMP and other applicable industry regulatory requirements.

• Experience in Pharmaceutical or Food industry.
• Travel between Teva Canada sites located in different geographic locations ( 25-30km apart) within the province of Ontario.

Travel to other Teva North American sites as well.

• Self-directed with ability to organize and prioritize work and reporting requirements.
• Ability to motivate, influence and lead others with and / or without direct supervisory authority.
• Ability to positively manage conflict, provide difficult feedback and negotiate resolution.
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships between teams, departments, and business units.
• Ability to demonstrate sound judgment and decision making.
• Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and provide coaching, mentoring and encouragement to help others improve their knowledge or skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to interact positively and collaborate with co-workers, management, and external partners.
• Ability to analyze information and create metrics relevant to the business objectives.
• Proactively works on problems of a complex scope where evaluation of contributing factors requires the analysis of situations or data and an in-depth knowledge and evaluation of various known and unknown factors.
• Seeks out all resources when selecting methods and techniques for obtaining results.
• Acts independently and proactively to direct method and procedure for problem resolution.

Teva’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commitment

Teva Pharmaceuticals is committed to equal opportunity in employment. It is Teva's global policy that equal employment opportunity be provided without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, veteran status, national or ethnic origin or any other legally recognized status entitled to protection under applicable laws.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace for all. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise us of any accommodations needed to support you throughout the recruitment and selection process.

All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

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