Director, OPEX

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.
30+ days ago