Director, Business Consulting
Apply NowCompany: Merck & Co, Inc
Location: Wilson, NC 27893
Description:
Job Description
The Director, Site Strategy and Portfolio Management position is responsible for overseeing development and execution of the strategic portfolio of projects for our Manufacturing Division Wilson site. This role will take an active role in managing both the tactical and transformational initiatives necessary to progress the site's overall strategic goals. This position will play a pivotal role in ensuring that interdependencies across initiatives are understood and that risks and opportunities within the integrated plan are well coordinated.
As a team leader, this role will direct and oversee individual initiative leaders, facilitate communication, ensure alignment with key stakeholders, and drive results to ensure business needs and commitments are met. The position will report to our Manufacturing Division Wilson Plant Manager and be a member of the Site Leadership Team.
Primary Activities:
The Director, Site Strategy and Portfolio Management position is responsible for directing and overseeing strategic projects and initiatives for our Manufacturing Division Wilson site. As a team leader, the position will be responsible for directing the portfolio of projects through individual initiative leaders to provide guidance, coordinate tasks, drive execution, ensure engagement, simplify communication, and facilitate connection to site and network governance processes.
Primary responsibilities for the position will include but not be limited to:
Business / Delivery
EHS / Quality Compliance
People
Cost
Continuous Improvement
Minimum Educational Requirements and Experience:
Required Experience and Skills:
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts
U.S. Hybrid Work Model
Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".
San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
05/1/2025
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
The Director, Site Strategy and Portfolio Management position is responsible for overseeing development and execution of the strategic portfolio of projects for our Manufacturing Division Wilson site. This role will take an active role in managing both the tactical and transformational initiatives necessary to progress the site's overall strategic goals. This position will play a pivotal role in ensuring that interdependencies across initiatives are understood and that risks and opportunities within the integrated plan are well coordinated.
As a team leader, this role will direct and oversee individual initiative leaders, facilitate communication, ensure alignment with key stakeholders, and drive results to ensure business needs and commitments are met. The position will report to our Manufacturing Division Wilson Plant Manager and be a member of the Site Leadership Team.
Primary Activities:
The Director, Site Strategy and Portfolio Management position is responsible for directing and overseeing strategic projects and initiatives for our Manufacturing Division Wilson site. As a team leader, the position will be responsible for directing the portfolio of projects through individual initiative leaders to provide guidance, coordinate tasks, drive execution, ensure engagement, simplify communication, and facilitate connection to site and network governance processes.
Primary responsibilities for the position will include but not be limited to:
Business / Delivery
- Own strategic plan supporting the overall our Manufacturing Division Wilson site strategy.
- Utilize high degree of independent judgment and decision-making to direct strategic portfolio of projects within our Manufacturing Division Wilson site.
- Provide leadership to ensure that portfolio of projects is managed effectively and in accordance with business commitments.
- Provide coordination/integration across strategic programs impacting the site, business unit, and division.
- Develop and manage site 5 to 10-year plan for our Manufacturing Division Wilson including an integrated roadmap that measures progress.
- Facilitate routine strategic reviews and updates.
EHS / Quality Compliance
- Ensure strategic initiatives are executed in compliance with Safety, Environmental, cGMP, and Labor regulations. Provide support as needed for compliance related audits and inspections.
- Develop and manage compliance-driven initiatives as necessary to support the strategic goals of the site.
- Ensure appropriate change management is applied when executing projects including capital so that a high standard of EHS and Quality compliance are maintained.
People
- Direct, oversee, and influence a team of individual strategic initiative leaders providing guidance, managing escalations, and facilitating communication with leadership as well as key stakeholders.
- Demonstrate strong enterprise leadership skills including strategic planning, decision making, network and partnership building, influencing, execution excellence, and change facilitation.
- Support the growth and development of individual initiative leaders.
- Effectively lead cross-functional and cross-enterprise teams through strong governance processes.
- Ensure that a positive work environment and culture is maintained within the strategic initiative teams.
Cost
- Control expenditures across strategic initiatives in accordance with agreed upon plan.
- Propose and justify expense and capital projects that support the company and site's strategic goals. Effectively manage assigned projects through capital approval processes, development of scope, cost estimation, project execution, and closeout.
- Ensure appropriate controls are in place to coordinate portfolio of projects in accordance with spend and business commitments.
Continuous Improvement
- Embed culture of continuous improvement into strategic initiatives with focus on leadership, standard work, making problems visible, minimizing waste, and problem solving.
- Identify interdependencies/risks, ensure alignment on critical decision milestones/mitigations across enterprise, divisional, and business unit initiatives.
- Resolve and escalate issues impacting strategic initiatives within the daily, weekly, and monthly tier management processes.
Minimum Educational Requirements and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technical, Engineering, or relevant Management field (Engineering preferred) with ten (10) years of relevant GMP manufacturing experience across multiple functional areas (Operations, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Technology) at a GMP manufacturing/packaging facility, OR
- Master's degree in Science, Technical, Engineering, or relevant Management field (Engineering preferred) with eight (8) years of relevant GMP manufacturing experience across multiple functional areas (Operations, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Technology) at a GMP manufacturing/packaging facility, OR
Required Experience and Skills:
- Previous experience managing within a multi-layer complex manufacturing / packaging facility
- Project management and/or capital project execution experience
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as a team leader and team member and collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience in portfolio management and managing significant changes that require integration of people, intent, and delivery to produce measurable results
- Demonstrated strong leadership and interpersonal skills with ability to coach, influence and support others through a culture of inclusion, feedback and empowerment
- Demonstrated ability to motivate teams to achieve stretch goals
- Working knowledge of EHS and GMP regulatory requirements as they apply to a pharmaceutical manufacturing / packaging facility including commissioning and/or qualification
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities, with the capability to engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- Experience leading enterprise directives/initiatives, accountable for delivering measurable outcomes requiring negotiation and influence outside of direct management
- Facilities, maintenance, site engineering, or utilities experience
- Experience facilitating site strategy / hoshin processes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience navigating digital systems, extracting data, and gathering information to support analysis, problem-solving, and decision making.
- Critical thinking / analysis - demonstrated ability to interrogate data, summarize, and draw conclusions.
- Familiarity with change execution management, building clear communications, time management, and conflict resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to focus on what matters, drive results, and act with resilience and urgency.
Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
EEOC Know Your Rights
EEOC GINA Supplement
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts
U.S. Hybrid Work Model
Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence.This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".
San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
10%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
05/1/2025
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.