Manager, Operations

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY

• Our company is a premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years. Recognized as top employer in 2024 by the Straits Times, Great Place to Work and SwissCham Modern Work Company, where you can grow professionally and make a difference! Biotech is a sterile filling facility producing, a lifesaving cancer treatment.

• This role is a fantastic opportunity to lead a key team in Biotech whilst building sterile and biologic experience. This role leads a team of 5 employees who provide essential day support to the Biotech IPT.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• This team you will be leading is accountable for the following process streams:

• Batch Record Review: As volumes scale up, team needs to ensure we continue to release batches on time. Successful partnership with technicians to reduce exceptions and corrections per batch is critical.

• Batch Record Design: Co-leading continuous evolution of our digital strategy to realise our aspiration for reducing touch time/batch. Includes ownership of MES MBR, elogs & PE steward.

• Management of consumables and manufacturing aids. Includes introduction of new materials and inventory/budget management.

• Authoring, investigating & trending of Operations related QNs, procedures, change controls, audit actions and customer complaints.

WHAT YOU MUST HAVE

• This role will be positioned as a M1 manager. As such, the successful candidate will need to be able to guide their direct reports on their job scope. We will be looking for examples of where in your career you have executed work of similar complexity or scope. Sterile Experience will be an advantage.

• Managing Change: As a team leader, you expected to create a high performing team that effectively executes against Hoshin. We are looking for a leader who can keep their team resilient and motivated as our ways of working evolve.

• Existing MPS skills are an advantage. Priority competency areas are problem solving (8 step and On-Point), Tier, Daily Management and Leader Standard Work.

• Self Starter: Successful candidates need to be comfortable working autonomously. Whilst the Biotech Leadership Team will provide direction on intent, expectation is you should be able to develop a plan to achieve that goal and shift the plan based on actual circumstances.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Our business is manufacturing medicines that improve patients’ lives. Great engineers in our organisation are those who can problem solve effectively, matching the theory with an ability to get work done. They know that workplace safety is our priority and staying compliant to GMP requirements is our license to operate. If you are someone who is engaged by a challenge, has a desire to build a talented team and relishes navigating ambiguous spaces to make an impact where it matters; please apply! If you unsure, feel free to reach out to the hiring manager to discover what this role has to offer you.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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