The opportunity
As the Director of US Generics, reporting to the Senior Director of Strategy Management, this position will lead critical US Generics projects, driving substantial impact on our business. Responsible to align project scope and direction with the operational and strategic functions of the US Generics organization. This position is expected to make key decisions, directly impacting US Generics processes and responsibilities, with very limited management input.
How you’ll spend your day
All areas of responsibility listed below are essential to the satisfactory performance of this position by any incumbents with reasonable accommodation if necessary. Any non-essential functions are assumed to be included in other related duties or assignments.
• Primary representative and decision maker for US Generics on projects impacting daily processes and responsibilities.
• Lead high priority projects, collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders to make operational decisions and set strategic goals. Ensuring that overall designs and output are aligned to and directly support the responsibilities of US Generics business.
• Identify, construct and present to US Generics Leadership new projects and initiatives which add operational and financial efficiencies to the US Generics business.
• Day-to-day management, monitoring business operations to ensure project progress.
• Provide routine status reports and program summaries including scope/schedule/quality risks, project status, resource allocation and impact to US Generics organization.
• Lead and coordinate procurement processes and allocation of resources, as appropriate.
• Within projects, proactively work to identify and remove obstacles (escalate as necessary) that would otherwise interfere with the responsibilities and processes of the US Generics organization’s day-to-day functions.
• Evaluate performance by analyzing data and metrics to measure overall project and teams’ overall success.
• Create and document new processes and collaborate with US Generics teams during any implementations or transitions to new processes or systems.
• Assure that delivery and quality of projects is not impacted by execution or lack of understanding of key US Generics operations requirements.
• Create documentation and train US Generics team members, as necessary, on new systems, tools processes, as implementation is finalized.
• Continued high level participation in all projects post-implementation to ensure that there are no negative impacts to the US Generics processes and to align as needed prior to any new releases/versions are put into production.