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Associate Director, Quantitative Sciences - Center for Mathematical Science Job

Employer
Merck
Location
West Point PA
Closing date
May 1, 2017

Job Details

Associate Director, Quantitative Sciences - Center for Mathematical Science-QUA005718

Description

Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.


The ideal candidate will serve as a consultant and advocate of Chemical Manufacturing Controls (CMC) Statistics to technical specialists and managers in Merck's pharmaceutical, biologic and vaccine manufacturing. You will be a key member of teams developing, validating and transferring bioassays and supporting stability analyses. The candidate will provide technical leadership in tasks that include design of experiments (DOE), analysis of data, statistical process control (SPC), simulation, design of sampling plans, and problem solving. You will also evaluate data for submissions and responses to regulatory agencies and pharmacopoeia.

Qualifications

Education:

Required: Bachelor's required, MS or PhD preferred.

For Bachelor's - 12 years of experience; MS + 8 years or PhD + 5 years

Required:

- Requires demonstrated leadership, ability to manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously with competing priorities.

- Requires demonstrated resourcefulness and the ability to develop and implement innovative and new concepts/ideas.

- Superior oral and written communication skills to convey statistical concepts and analyses to non-statisticians.

- Excellent statistical computing skills in packages such as R, SAS, JMP and Minitab.

Preferred:

- Experience with supporting analytical method development, validations and transfers are a plus

- Coursework/experience should include industrial statistics (DOE, SPC, regression, general linear models, and multivariate methods).

Our employees are the key to our company’s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Our Company’s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives. If you need an accommodation for the application process please email us at staffingaadar@merck.com.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Job: Quantitative Sciences Generic

Job Title:Assoc. Dir, Quant. Sciences

Primary Location: NA-US-PA-West Point

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: No

Number of Openings: 2

Shift (if applicable): 1st

Hazardous Materials: No

Company Trade Name:Merck

Company

Our vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer health and animal products. We aspire to be the best healthcare company in the world and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow.

We have made it our mission to provide innovative, distinctive products and services that save and improve lives, satisfy customer needs and to be recognized as a great place to work

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