Imex/opex Deployment Lead

All over the world, Pfizer colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success; be part of an ownership culture that values diversity and where all colleagues are energized and engaged; and the ability to impact the health and lives of millions of people. Pfizer, a global leader in the biopharmaceutical industry, is continuously seeking top talent who are inspired by our purpose to innovate to bring therapies to patients that significantly improve their lives.

IMEx/OPEx deployment Lead M/F/d for our location in Freiburg.

What You Will Achieve

Your organizational skills will help us further develop our continuous improvement programs across the organization, both vertically and horizontally. Thanks to your knowledge and skills, it will be ensured that the improvement programs yield results, and strengthen the overall business strategies. You will establish and maintain performance metrics to measure program success and put in place process excellence support for program governance and project reviews.

You will work as a coach and a facilitator for improvement projects as well as maintain performance metrics to measure program success.

As a Senior Manager, you will support the program by taking care of IMEx project communications, trainings, certifications and rewards. Your advanced knowledge of the principles and concepts in the discipline and comprehensive knowledge of other disciplines will enable you to lead complex projects across the division. Your ability to develop and manage CI plans will facilitate in achieving objectives, interpreting internal and external business challenges and recommending best practices for improvements. While managing complex project environments, you will be able to anticipate and troubleshoot roadblocks and influence teams to achieve targets for the division.

The Pfizer Freiburg site is one of the key manufacturing sites of the Pfizer network handling highest complexity with more than 3500 Stock keeping units which are manufactured with shortest lead times.

The production system is site wide deployed (IMEx - integrated manufacturing excellence).

This manufacturing excellence system is intended for a continuous process optimization of the E2E manufacturing, packaging and release process of tablets and capsules at the Freiburg site.

The further deployment is under the responsibility of the job owner/ownerin.

The job applicant will be responsible to further develop the production systems in all areas of the site.

The applicant will run optimization projects in the departments and support the trainings activities for manufacturing excellence.

The job role requires thorough understanding of lean principles and sustainable deployment of those, Six Sigma knowledge e.g. Six Sigma Green Belt certification is beneficial, analytical and good communication skills are expected.

Previous job experience in process optimization in pharma or food industry is positive. Job incumbent will interact frequently with the sponsors of the CI projects from the Site Leadership team (PMD Geschäftsleitung) and report to the Director OPEX/Facility management.

Role Responsibilities
- Develop ideas and lead projects across the departments at the site
- Develop and manage plans to achieve objectives.
- Support the identification and installation of metrics to evaluate effectiveness of process improvements.
- Lead internal and across sites work efforts as necessary to advance Pfizer strategies

Required role qualifications

Must-Have
- Bachelor's Degree in science or engineering
- 3+ years of experience in OPEx
- Strong experience in global/multi-national pharmaceutical environment,
- Experience in coaching, developing and influencing people at various levels of the organization
- Excellent knowledge of lean tools used to design processes and process flows, etc.
- Strong consultation, project management and relationship building skills and a proven track record of leading diverse cross-functional teams
- Good communication skills with senior stake holders mandatory.
- Leadership skills are mandatory.
- Language German and English mandatory.

Nice-to-Have
- Master's degree,
- Capability in Lean tools and/or desire to grow Lean capabilities to further drive continuous improvement

Together we stand for:
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives - In order to fulfill our corporate purpose, a value-oriented corporate culture guides our actions. Pfizer's values are: Courage, Excellence, Equity & Joy.

Courage: One bold way we are achieving our goals is our company-wide digital transformation strategy. Our flat hierarchies enable short decision-making paths.

Excellence: We focus on what is really important, take responsibility, measure progress and work together in a spirit of trust. Together we rely on an agile way of working that encourages our employees to b