Senior Manager, CAR T Manufacturing Records and Procedures

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The senior manager is responsible to manage and provide oversight of a team. Primary responsibilities are to attend IRB, CRB, CCRB, and MEB and own actions presented as applicable, support deviations and triage calls for Investigations as required, implement appropriate quality record actions, and author, review and approve technical and procedural documents. The senior manager provides leadership and guidance to their managers and technical writers while maintaining a culture of safety, compliance, innovation and continuous improvement within the Value Stream Support Operations function.

Shift Available:

• Monday - Friday, Onsite Day Shift, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain balanced and unbiased functional relationships, championing a culture of exceptional teamwork and communication across the organization.

• Identifying and where possible mitigating risks in manufacturing operations that could negatively impact delivery of safe and effective therapies to patients.

• Develop their team through scheduled coaching sessions.

• Instill proper problem identification behaviors.

• Acknowledge ideas and/or issues with feedback on path forward.

• Coordinate across the value stream to align with appropriate goals and objectives.

• Ability to breakdown larger goals to goals that can be influenced.

• Escalate issues at the appropriate level of urgency.

• Participate, lead, or coach Go & See (Gemba) activities in their areas for current state understanding, process confirmation, waste reduction, increased flow, continuous improvement idea generation, coaching, or employee engagement.

• Lead, coach or participate in Improvement & Coaching Kata at Tier Board Meetings, at the department’s work area, or with individual team members to creatively experiment and deliver practical improvements to gaps to target.

• Support their team by removing bottlenecks to problem-solving efforts and/or escalating problems or communicating resolutions through Tiered Management process.

• Communicate expectations for the usage of Improvement/Coaching Kata, Go & See.

• Engaged and aligned in communicating and driving performance, issues, accountability and solving problems using the designed tiered management processes.

• Create and continuously improve their Leader Standard Work for daily, weekly, quarterly, yearly critical tasks, run the business & improve the business activities.

• Take personal responsibility to work safely and ensure colleagues do the same.

• Be the champion for continuous improvement.

• Be purposefully present in the work area.

• Develop a deep ownership and understanding of one’s work area.

• Establish performance measures and targets to drive improvements.

• Participate in reviews of performance, generate improvement ideas and take action.

• Use visual management so no problem is hidden.

• Build a culture of finding root causes and take action to prevent them from recurring.

• Know the value stream for the product/service you