Job Description

Job Description

This position within our company's Global Clinical Supply Compliance Operations responsible for ensuring compliant imports/exports aligned with global Customs and other government agency regulations and our company's Global Trade Compliance (GTC) standards. This will include managing a team to develop and implement processes and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable policies, regulations and laws. Position will work with Global Trade Compliance (GTC), Global Clinical Supply (GCS) and our Manufacturing Division Regional Leads, site shipping personnel, Clinical, and Research stakeholders across all global company locations. Position will also interact with Logistics, Clinical Country Operations, and external vendors/shippers. Key challenges will include managing and enabling a team to influence all constituents and stakeholders to following trade policy and procedures and solving shipment specific issues when they arise.

Specifically, this role:

* Manage a team to ensure imports are cleared through Customs and other government agencies including ensuring the appropriate trade permits/licenses are applied and obtained.
* Manage and enable a team to identify opportunities for trade compliance process improvements within GCS, Global Clinical Trial Operations (GCTO), and Discovery, Preclinical and Early Development (DPED).
* Ensure the team is trade compliant with global trade regulations and GTC global standards as applies to all processes, sites and resources.
* Manage a team to support global government agency permit/license requirements including Global Manufacturing Operations (GMO) authorization requirements
* Act as point of contact for Compliance Operations trade compliance and contribute in developing strategic programs in GCS and rest of our research laboratories to ensure compliance with Global import and export regulations.
* Support our Research Laboratories Trade Compliance Ops Global footprint including support to deploy our company's Compliance strategic goals and objectives aligned closely with business objectives.
* Manage a team that maintains and implements trade compliance country level Standard Business Procedures, tools, systems, and training to ensure compliance and to ensure the appropriate processes are properly incorporated into GCS and rest of our Research Laboratories operations.
* Partners with area SMEs within or outside GCS on cross-functional initiatives, as appropriate.
* Manage a team to ensure trade attributes are stored and communicated to brokers and government agencies compliantly and timely with minimal impact to patient supply and research.

Qualifications

* Minimum Bachelors degree in science or pharmaceutical science required
* Minimum of 10 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry of which a minimum of 5 years functional expertise working in trade compliance required
* Minimum of 5 years of experience of managing others required
* Understanding of Customs regulations and other partner government agency trade regulations required
* Prior experience with global trade management systems like SAP GTS or other similar databases, required
* Prior hands-on experience using Microsoft products (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word)
* Good project management skills
* Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills
* Sustained level of high performance while quickly processing high volumes of work
* Awareness of diversity

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.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, 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

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

INVENT.

IMPACT.

INSPIRE.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

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Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Number of Openings:

1
Requisition ID:R89357