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Teva Pharmaceuticals
Director Production, Haarlem Site
Haarlem
October 15, 2024
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Director Production, Haarlem Site
Date: Oct 15, 2024
Location:Haarlem, Netherlands, 2031
Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals
Job Id: 58533
Who we are
Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.
The opportunity
This role is part of the Haarlem site leadership team and is responsible for executing the annual plan in line with long-term goals, ensuring targets are met across production, safety, compliance, budget, and organizational objectives. You will oversee and optimize the entire production process, focusing on safety, quality, output, efficiency, and team development.
You will lead a team consisting of three Associate Directors and one Training Coordinator, with each Associate Director overseeing key areas: Packaging, Sterile Production, and Investigations & Improvement. In this role, you will cultivate engagement, strong performance, and promote positive employee relations throughout the team.
At the Haarlem site, renowned for its production of parenteral chemotherapeutic drugs, you will ensure that the manufacturing of these essential medicines adheres to the highest standards of safety, quality, and regulatory compliance, while consistently driving operational excellence.
You will lead a team consisting of three Associate Directors and one Training Coordinator, with each Associate Director overseeing key areas: Packaging, Sterile Production, and Investigations & Improvement. In this role, you will cultivate engagement, strong performance, and promote positive employee relations throughout the team.
At the Haarlem site, renowned for its production of parenteral chemotherapeutic drugs, you will ensure that the manufacturing of these essential medicines adheres to the highest standards of safety, quality, and regulatory compliance, while consistently driving operational excellence.
How you’ll spend your day
Leadership Responsibilities – People & Organization:
- Drive a people-first approach to leadership by building high-performing, motivated teams and implementing succession plans to ensure organizational sustainability.
- Creating and developing multi-year plans including business, production, and organizational priorities and ensuring their implementation.
- Taking care of and analyzing the required management reports and adjusting where necessary on the underlying root causes.
- Stimulate and maintain a culture of continuous improvement and ensure implementation.
- Ensuring optimum safety in the department (employees, product, and process), in such a way that legal requirements and company regulations are met.
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Leading first-line management and professionals, ensuring that work is completed efficiently, and department objectives are met. This includes:
- Implementing personnel policies, including succession planning and reducing absenteeism.
- Ensuring optimal staffing levels, resources, and information availability to produce, check, and package products in line with GMP, quality standards, and within budget.
- Establishing and maintaining effective communication structures.
- Ensuring employees are qualified and well-trained.
Operational Responsibilities:
- Responsible for production performance and production performance management review.
- Ensure the optimization of the production output (quality, efficiency, yield,). Stimulate and maintain a culture of continuous improvement and ensure implementation.
- Ensuring the progress of the production including inspection, sleeving and packaging on the basis of the (monthly) plan and with due observance of agreed performance indicators. Focusing on the required product safety and product quality, the safety of employees, the efficient use of the available resources and the production costs.
- Responsible for the management of the machinery, in such a way that an effective and efficient production process is guaranteed. Discuss maintenance plans with Engineering & Maintenance and make a substantive contribution to investment proposals.
- Responsible for using and maintaining the available production resources. Is jointly responsible for initiating the necessary maintenance of production resources on time and for the timely start-up of production resources after malfunctions.
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Responsible for the quality delivered in terms of GMP, EHS and Compliance. Ensuring the follow-up of recommendations / action points arising from internal and external inspections and ensuring the follow-up and enforcement of GMP guidelines.
Your experience and qualifications
- Academic degree
- 5+ years managing a production department in the pharmaceutical industry; sterile production experience is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical production techniques, equipment, and processes.
- Experience with OPEX/Lean Manufacturing; Black Belt certification is a plus.
- Knowledge of automated processes and production control techniques.
- In-depth understanding of GMP requirements
- Fluent in both Dutch and English, spoken and written.
- Engaging, motivating and supportive leadership style
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational abilities
- Ability to develop and implement production strategies in a policy-driven environment.
- Persuasive with the ability to drive change effectively.
- Focused on performance management and staff growth.
- Open, clear, and approachable in communication.
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Results-oriented, with a strong sense of urgency and execution skills.
Contact person
Ivo Huijskens - Senior Recruiter Europe
Reports To
Site General Manager
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