Associate Director, Project Management (Operational Excellence)

Job title:

Associate Director, Project Management (Operational Excellence)

Company

Gilead

Job description

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

We empower our leaders to step up, share ideas, listen, learn, and lead. We’re welcoming bright, diverse, and imaginative minds; we’re nurturing them to foster an environment of inclusion and growth where innovation is encouraged. We expect our people leaders to model that environment, and to focus on creating inclusion, developing talent, and enabling teams.

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description

The Position

Reporting to the Director of PMO, within the Portfolio Management Office and part of the Ireland Manufacturing organization, this role will be responsible for leading the ongoing development of our operational excellence culture and capabilities within Ireland Manufacturing. The role is accountable for supporting the systems and processes that empower all colleagues to identify and implement incremental improvements that drive efficiency.

Responsibilities include:

Supports key strategic and tactical plans, key performance metrics, and dashboards to drive the Operational Excellence program.

Identifies improvement projects by evaluating the value stream for waste, complexity and helps identify solutions.

Drives targeted improvements to increase our Operational Excellence maturity.

Ensures Ireland Manufacturing continues to develop a pipeline of improvement projects and other initiatives which will ensure meeting all strategic goals and targets.

Builds operational excellence capability by delivering Yellow Belt, Green Belt & Black Belt training across Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing (PDM)

Collaborates across PDM Manufacturing sites to implement shared and harmonised processes.

Champions the use of analytics in driving excellence in execution & decision making.

Participates in the PDM Operational Excellence Community & collaborates in the development of the OE Strategy.

Provides mentorship to the site OE Advocate team, Yellow Belt /Green Belt / Black Belt candidates, kaizen and six sigma teams focused on rapid improvements as needed.

Engages the organization through activities such as Kaizens, Gemba’s and OE recognition events.

Drives implementation & embedding of 7S at Ireland Manufacturing.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

Lean / Six Sigma Master Black Belt certified.

Degree qualified with significant experience.

Knowledge of analytics and how to leverage same to the benefit of Operational Excellence

Strong leadership and global level influencing & collaboration skills

Demonstrates excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Ability to act on own initiative

Experience in pharmaceutical operations/GMP environment

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Gilead” or the “Company”) to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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Expected salary

Location

Cork

Job date

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:25:30 GMT

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