Lead Distribution Center

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we “follow the science” that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.

An opportunity has arisen for a Lead Distribution Center Manager who will report into the Director Packaging Operations & Distribution Center. This role is based at our Schachen site.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and leads the Logistics & Distribution Group.
- Develop and lead the site’s wide logistics center and other functional areas (Distribution Center, Material Management)
- Continuously improves efficiencies of business processes, costs, cycle times, logistics and distribution technologies in collaboration with global functions.
- Fosters process alignment between Logistics & Distribution and Stakeholders.
- Manages allocated cost centres and capital plans in line with relevant policies and procedures.
- Ensures Logistics & Distribution Operations are in compliance with our company policies, site safety and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) procedures.
- Provide coaching, leadership and personal development opportunities to logistics & distribution personnel based on our leadership principles and procedures. Responsible for developing team members’ performance, offering feedback, and demonstrating the desired skills and expected work ethics.
- Sets objectives, leads performance management and annual performance management processes within Logistics & Distribution Operations.
- Responsible for recruiting, onboarding and training team members, setting strategy and monitoring progress towards goals.
- Supports continuous improvement of site and department quality systems and processes including implementation of our Global Quality Standards.
- Responsible for Environment Health and Safety compliance and awareness within Logistics & Distribution.
- Continues professional education by periodic attendance of internal or external scientific/technical meetings and managerial courses.
- Maintains contact with relevant professional organizations or other institutions focusing on Clinical Supply regulatory and operations topics. Creating, approving and implementation of Standard Operating Procedure’s (SOP’s) & GMP documents.
- Manages deviations, CAPA’s and Changes.
- Ensures continuous inspection readiness and supports internal audits and external inspections.

**Your Profile**:
**Education**:

- Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

**Required Experience and Skills**:

- Experienced people management or leadership skills.
- Experienced logistics manager
- Experienced and strong people manager with proven track record of developing talent.
- Fluent in English and German

**Preferred Experience and Skills**:

- Project Management experience.
- Demonstrated leadership including strategy development and deployment experience with tangible delivered benefits.
- Demonstrated operational management experience, including capacity planning and scheduling.
- Ability to manage complex cross-functional initiatives.

**THE COMPANY**

Our company has had a presence in Switzerland since 1963. With a regional office and manufacturing/packaging facility, Lucerne is considered the center of operations. Approximately 1,000 people work collaboratively at the four Lucerne locations (Tribschenstrasse, Citybay, Schachen and Kriens). A fifth location has been recently established in Zurich, aimed at accelerating the development and commercialization of many of our company’s medicines and vaccines, which supports our mission to save and improve lives around the world. The new location has a target date of 2021 for operational readiness.

We are proud to be certified as a “Top Employer Switzerland” and “Top Employer Europe” showing the company’s commitment to our employees and the community around us.

Our Schachen site is crucial for the development and supply of innovative medicines. With over 400 employees, we focus on producing and testing new biological medicines. From Schachen, we export new drugs for global clinical trials, ensuring their safety and efficacy. Additionally, our site investigates suspected cases of drug counterfeiting, operating as one of only three such laboratories worldwide.

**Who we are **

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for **

Imagine getting up in the morning