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Director, Product Technical Teams

Job Title: Director, Product Technical Teams
Employer Name: Genentech, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.gene.com
Contact Name: Kevin Kannady
Contact Email: kannady@gene.com
Business Type: Industry
Job Type: Corporate Management
Job Country: US
Job Location: South San Francisco, California

Background:

Reporting to the Vice President of Process Development, the Director of Product Technical Teams (PTT) is a new role responsible for providing the necessary leadership, strategic vision, tactical execution and business acumen to support Product Operation’s goal of leveraging technical resources to formally oversee the performance of bulk production processes, to align technical initiatives across the manufacturing network, to provide a clear manufacturing technical point of contact for key stakeholders, and to serve as business process owner developing and managing the processes needed to ensure coordinated manufacturing technical expertise and perspective to meet the growing and changing business needs of the Product Operations organization.

The Director of Product Technical Teams will develop the business processes needed to operationalize the network of Product Technical Teams comprised of technical experts from the respective manufacturing sites. In this role, he/she will work with the PTT leaders and other stakeholders to define and develop systems and processes to ensure appropriate review of process performance data, of process improvement ideas, of change requests, etc to ensure process consistency across network for each product.

Duties:

1.Provide strategic context and define operating rules
•Assure consistency across groups in reporting and analysis methods
•In partnership with PD, CMC teams, Quality and Manufacturing, define roles and responsibilities, input and outputs, and interactions with stakeholders, as well as decision making rights, and what needs to be escalated to whom
•Serves as business process owner of the PTTs
•Accountable for developing the process maps, R&R, establish the expectations, and start-up of the PTTs, including setting expectations with functional management, and assuring that PTT participation is part of a members performance planning & review (PP&R).
2.Define the process of identifying and approving PTT Leaders
3.Provide support to PTTs by continuously improving business process infrastructure
4.Provide single point of contact for cross network, cross product manufacturing technical issues.
5.Serve as BPO for key responsibilities being defined as part of SUMMIT (class A initiative) such as BOM (bill of materials) owner, and as technical representative to key initiatives such as i2c and raw material review board re-definition initiatives.
6.Member of CMC Review Committee, PD Sr. Leadership team, Global change Review Committee, and other appropriate review and governance committees.

Qualifications:

Job Requirements:
•Undergraduate degree in life sciences/engineering required, advanced degree in life sciences/engineering preferred
•10+ years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including 5 or more years of senior level management experience required
•Experience in MSAT and bioprocess manufacturing required
•Demonstrated leadership success in both project and people management
•Demonstrated ability to drive for results and lead innovation and change
•Excellent leadership skills and the ability to motivate a team with dotted-line reporting relationship.
•Demonstrated command of tools and techniques of formal process improvement methodologies (Operational Excellence, Class A)
•Ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization both internal and external to Genentech, Inc.
•Demonstrated success in business process/system development, influence management, collaboration and change management.
•Excellent oral and written communication, facilitation, collaboration and presentation skills