Re-Invent Returnship - Associate Director, Process Engineering

Job Description

Re-Invent is our Company's returnship program welcoming back individuals who’ve left the workforce for 2+ years. Our simple objective is to create an empowering space for professionals to re-enter while accelerating their growth into leadership roles. Over six-months we would invest in your development through project work, cross-functional exposure, targeted coaching, and leadership visibility.

For a role within Global Vaccines & Biologics Commercialization (GVBC), you may be required to provide technical leadership for Biologics and Vaccines commercialization efforts including both drug substance and drug product, support pipeline molecule technology transfers to manufacturing sites, contribute to the preparation of regulatory submissions, and work on new manufacturing technologies. Within GVBC, we partner across areas of the Manufacturing Division (MD) and cross-divisionally with Research & Development Division (R&DD) with the ultimate goal of delivering innovative products to patients.

You will have the opportunity to support significant projects, be required to exercise independent judgment and make key decisions that directly impact business outcomes.

Global Vaccines & Biologics Commercialization:

The mission of GVBC is to commercialize the company's pipeline of biologics and vaccines leading to innovation in medicine and a brighter and healthier future for people around the world. We are accountable for three types of processes. Through execution of process science, we ensure that our company’s processes are well-characterized and well understood. Through process engineering, we make sure that our company’s processes can be scaled up or scaled out into the manufacturing facilities with our respective partners. And, lastly, we’re responsible for supporting the regulatory applications associated with process science and process engineering.

Required Education

• Bachelor Degree in Data Analytics, Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and/or related field with 10 years of relevant experience; or Master's Degree with 8 years of relevant experience; or Ph.D. with 4 years of relevant experience

Experience and Skills

Required

• Candidate must have taken a career break of two plus years. A career break is defined as having taken a break from Corporate America; any entrepreneurial explorations, transition to academia, or other personal circumstances constitute as a break.

• Candidate must be eligible to work in US without sponsorship

Preferred

• Demonstrated leadership experience in field of study, extracurricular activity, previous internship or undergraduate research, military or prior work experience

• Superior communication and interpersonal skills, a team-player with the ability to work collaboratively

• Biologics, vaccine, or sterile process development, technology transfer, manufacturing facilities, and/or GMPs

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that’s devoted to delivering a high quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

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Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, 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 …

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

Invent. Impact. Inspire.

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If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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Requisition ID:R114647