Total 5 Director/C-Level Manufacturing / Production job vacancies in lantau island

Location: Jurong East, West Region, Singapore

We are seeking a highly organised, proactive, and resourceful Secretary to provide high-level support to our Managing Director (Borderless Production). The Secretary will provide high level of administrative and secretarial support, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the office. The ideal candidate will be strong business acumen, proactive, detail-oriented, and able to handle confidential information with the utmost discretion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the Managing Director's calendar, schedule meetings, coordinate appointments.
• Assist in the preparation and proof-reading of agendas, presentations, reports, and any other documentation and follow up on action items as required.
• Take detailed meeting minutes, distribute them to relevant parties, and follow up on action items to ensure timely completion
• Act as the primary point of contact on behalf of the Managing Director, handling correspondence, including emails, letters, and phone calls, on behalf of the Managing Director.
• Coordinate travel itineraries, including booking of flights, accommodations, and transportation and ensure all travel-related documentation and arrangements are completed efficiently.
• Maintain an organised filing system for important documents and records.
• Liaise with internal departments and external stakeholders on behalf of the Managing Director.
• Adapt to changing priorities and demands, demonstrating flexibility and problem-solving skills.
• Ensure the office runs efficiently by managing supplies, organising meetings, and coordinating maintenance services.
• Perform other administrative duties as required to support the Managing Director and management team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Secretary or in a similar role, preferably supporting C-suites executive / senior executives.
• Familiarity with office management procedures and basic accounting principles.
• Familiarity with legal documentation and business processes, with the ability to interpret contracts and regulatory documents will have an added advantage.
• Proven experience as an executive secretary or similar administrative role.
• Exceptional organisational and time-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Ability to multitask and prioritise tasks effectively.
• High level of professionalism, discretion to handle confidential information.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Flexibility to travel and manage urgent matters outside regular office hours when required.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work efficiently under pressure.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment

The Position and Description

We are looking for an experienced manufacturing operations director / deputy manager to support the production of metal powders in Singapore.

Key job responsibilities include:

· Lead and support the foundry operations team ramp-up plan to full production.

· Manage the sieve department and associated technicians.

· Initiate and support cost saving and technology projects including with third parties.

· Provide technical support to the sales team.

· Lead technical issue troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

· Lead and facilitate plant preventive and maintenance procedures.

· Ensure compliance to audits, Quality, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and other relevant industry standards.

· Support other operations related requirements.

1. Job requirement

· A bachelor’s degree in engineering or another related field.

· A minimum of 10 years of working experience, preferably in manufacturing/operations.

· Familiarity with additive manufacturing, metals, metal powders is a plus.

· Excellent attention to detail.

· Ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of management, both internally and externally.

· Proven analytical thinking and decision-making.

· Self-motivated, proactive, hands-on, and able to work autonomously.

· Fluent in English and a second language.

· Singapore Citizen and Applicants with full working rights in Singapore

2. Skills

Excellent Communication Skills

Troubleshooting

Operational Excellence

Analytical Skills

Supply Chain

Additive Manufacturing

Root Cause Analysis

Compliance

Project Management

Attention to Detail

Stakeholder Management

Manufacturing

People Management

3. Minimum Qualification Level

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or a similar field related to our operations

Job Description

1. Assures Product quality, production processes, documents maintenance, production environment complied to our strict HQ standards and local government requirements.
2. Maintains product quality by enforcing quality assurance policies and procedures to ensure conformity with HQ specifications, government and industry standards.
3. Oversees the workplace health and safety issues of the company.
4. Negotiate with suppliers on raw materials as well as packaging materials procurement.
5. Responsible for company’s Production performance as well as Product Quality.
6. Investigate customers’ complaints on quality issues with the local Production and QC team.
7. Investment considerations and budgeting for improving working environment, quality and production efficiency.
8. Management of repair correspondence for manufacturing machineries and plant facilities.

Requirements

1. At least 5-8 years experience in production management in a food manufacturing industry preferably in a Management role
2. Degree holder or higher
3. Good knowledge of biscuits manufacturing processes and chocolates making processes.
4. Good knowledge of FSSC & ISO standards
5. Knowledge of safety requirements and legal standards.
6. Able to speak, read and write Japanese as the role requires frequent communicating and reporting to Japan HQ

To apply, please kindly email your updated resume to resume@goodjobcreations.com.sg.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

However, all applications will be updated to our resume bank for future opportunities.

EA Personnel Name: Lim Yoke Hui

EA Personnel Registration Number: R1433821

EA License no.: 07C5771

We are Assembly – and we’re not like the rest. We’re the modern alternative agency, bringing together industry-leading data, talent, and tech to Find the Change That Fuels Growth for the best brands on the planet, including Adobe, Lane Crawford, Marina Bay Sands, and more. Our diverse, global community of over 1,600 passionate experts combines global thinking with unmatched local expertise in more than 20 markets worldwide – enabling brands to engage and move consumers anywhere. We use STAGE, Assembly’s proprietary, privacy-centric data solutions platform, to surface powerful insights that transform into actionable brand opportunities. We’re at the cutting edge of new media, technology, and platforms embedded in the lives of today’s consumers, and we’re tapped into how culture and communities’ needs change. We do this while staying steadfast in our commitment to Leave the World Better Than We Found It through measurable social and environmental impact work.

Assembly was named The Drum’s APAC Media Agency of the Year in 2021

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

At Assembly, we find the change that fuels growth. We are a modern global agency bringing together data, technology and talent to deliver a connected set of solutions for media + more for the best brands on the planet.

This is a really exciting role in an environment that has so much opportunity for a senior business leader to join a fast growing digital marketing agency.

We are looking for a Business Director to join us on our journey. This is a newly-created role, reporting directly into our Hong Kong Market Director, that focuses on delivering world class deliverables to our clients while upskilling and providing guidance to our talents ensuring their growth and reaching their full potential.

Our ideal candidate is an articulate senior talent in the media agency domain with solid experience in integrated marketing channels including both online & offline best practices with branding activation expereince. We are looking for somebody with solid digital knowledge who can connect the dots with traditional media in an increasingly omnichannel world, who is immersed in data and technology and who is at the bleeding edge of industry innovation.

Requirements

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING ON ANY GIVEN DAY

• Create New Opportunities:
• Support Business growth and efficiency
• Delivering client billing and resource in line with targets
• Lead multi-channel strategy and planning, and work alongside channel teams to implement it
• Drive proposals and support in winning new business
• Retain & Build Lasting Relationships:
• Act as a senior client contact and point of escalation. Working to maintain & strengthen excellent client relationships at all levels
• Lead the strategic dialogue with your client, connecting with planners and the activation team to deliver both effective results and innovative solutions
• Ensure excellent delivery of all cross-channel work in a timely manner
• Keep abreast of channel and product updates within the agency, ensuring these are communicated to the client where appropriate
• Ensure Client contractual obligations, service levels and performance are maintained
• Work with the APAC Managing Director and Channel Heads to ensure optimal resource across Clients
• Manage the client P&L for the Hong Kong office, with support from the APAC Managing Director
• Grow Your Clients Business & Ours:
• Recognise opportunities to advance our client engagements and work alongside the Account Managers, Market Directors and Channel Heads to maximise these
• Act as partner for the client, and strive for new and innovative opportunities to drive the client’s business

• Grow Your Team & Collaborate with wider teams across APAC:
• Develop and grow our local team
• Support the development of the team below and around you, providing mentorship, coaching and direction to the office
• Grow each team and their capacity, and improve working methods to increase efficiency
• Be part of the wider community and collaborate with other functions and offices on various projects

• 8 + years in both digital & offline marketing across multiple channels (Paid Search, Social Media, Display/Programmatic, branding)
• Solid agency experience
• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Strong experience in managing teams and development of staff
• Confident client facing ability
• Excel at building relationships, both internally and with clients themselves
• Experience managing retail and/or travel clients
• Strong numerical skills and commercially aware
• Results and target driven with excellent attention to detail
• Able to prioritise and multi-task, working with all agency departments as well as independently
• Fluent English. Cantonese and/or Mandarin is also preferred

WHY ASSEMBLY?

• We’re part of Stagwell, the challenger network built to transform marketing. We’re nimble, smart, and digital-first, and we’re quickly growing to take on the biggest legacy hold cos.
• We care about your growth – we offer competitive salaries, annual compensation reviews, and keep detailed personal development plans to ensure you’re hitting your personal and company goals.
• We recognize and celebrate your success…all the time! Whether it’s through company meetups, employee recognition programs, or just a regular day, we make sure our people’s achievements are known and appreciated!
• We’re truly a people-first organization. That’s why we offer a Flexible Time Off policy that puts you in control of your work-life balance, as well as market-leading primary and secondary caregiver and parental leave policies.
• We care about social and environmental Impact – we have dedicated Impact Champions that collaborate globally to make sure we’re leaving the world better than we found it.
• We have an amazing group of employee resource groups committed to guiding the agency to become more inclusive, diverse, and representative of the world around us.

Associate Director, External Manufacturing Operations

The External Manufacturing Operations Associate Director, is accountable for meeting customer demand at the Contract Manufactures (CMO's) they manage by achieving excellence in Compliance, Supply, Continuous Improvement & Cost through their leadership and coaching of the responsible cross functional teams and their work in partnership with those CMO’s while leveraging lean manufacturing principles and the end to end (E2E) supply chain.

The External Manufacturing Operations Associate Director supports the Focus Factory Lead and serves as a point of contact for dealings between our Manufacturing Division and the CMO and establishes a strong business partnership as well as boundaries and ground rules of engagement. External Manufacturing Operations Associate Director will assist in our relationship with the contract manufacturer to deliver commercial supply or project execution through technology transfers.

The individual will participate on a cross-functional team (Supply Chain, Quality, Technical Ops, Procurement…) who are responsible for delivering daily/weekly/monthly/annual requirements at their external partner(s).

Main responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensures compliance (Quality Risk management, Deviation Management, Product Release, Change Control); Meeting Demand; Dispute resolution (w/ appropriate escalation); Production Planning; Materials Management (SAP entries, Logistics); Technology issues; Oversight of shop floor production (determining when functional subject matter expertise should be deployed to the External Party’s (EP) facility); Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement activities; Linking E2E (upstream and downstream) and with Supply Chain Management in the Supply Chain to ensure and optimize flow of materials.
• Is frequently present at their external partners site on the production floor, builds a strong interdependent relationship with the sites leadership team and is able to (“read a site”) assess & diagnose with appropriate tools and resource the true current condition & risks at a partners site and formulate in partnership with the external partner and our Company cross-functional team action orientated and time bound improvement plans.
• Partners with internal External Manufacturing team members including; Procurement, Quality, and Technology on commercial aspects of relationship, including Identify, Select, Negotiate and Re-negotiate/terminate, as required. The External Manufacturing Operations Associate Director may not be involved in all transactional interactions if they can be managed/delegated to a functional area but will be kept apprised of status/resolutions, etc.
• Participates in and represents External Manufacturing on the cross-functional teams with Supply Chain Management/Product Source Management/Procurement/Integrated Development and Supply Team for due diligence ahead of siting approval & post siting approval to support Sour of Supply (SOS)/New Product Introduction (NPI) changes at an external party and assume primary ownership of the new relationship.
• Ensures there is a plan with clear actions and timelines in place to delivery this SOS or NPI.
• Works with the external partner to understand CMO capacity (e.g. stated capacity, firm capacity, future capacity plans, time horizon / lead times required, comments/concerns, etc.) and future capacity based on agreed improvements.
• Is accountable for maintaining the integrity of the Master Supply Agreement ensuring alignment with the Supply and Quality agreements and appropriate document revision and distribution control and for ensuring contract terms agreed upon by our Manufacturing Division and the External Party are executed including purchase orders, forecasts, deliveries, and approving invoice payments.
• Is accountable for inventory control. Depending on the location of goods (at External Party or at our Company), External Manufacturing Operations Associate Director ensures adequate documentation of material disposition. In some markets, External Manufacturing Operations may need to witness the destruction of goods (to prevent counterfeiting) or have the External Party certify the destruction, per destruction procedures.
• Acts as our Company continuous improvement system leader & coach for own team and works with external partner and lean manufacturing resources, as needed, to identify External Party OpEx / continuous improvement opportunities and supports implementation once approved.
• Supports the external partner periodic Business and Operations Review Meetings. Based on our Company and External Manufacturing strategy the External Manufacturing Operations Associate Director develops with their cross functional team and their external partner the annual plan for the relationship with clear goals and targets.
• Prepares an annual “state of the union” presentation for the relationships she or he manages which includes successes and failures in order to leverage across External Manufacturing Organization.
• Participates in the creation and maintenance of an External Manufacturing Organization Handbook containing Global External Manufacturing policies, procedures, templates, etc.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in the Engineering, Science or Business and a minimum 8 years’ experience in commercial /business and manufacturing (biologics operations, quality, technology, planning), roles required with a significant portion in management/leadership positions.
• At least two (2) years of experience in management/leadership positions.
• Has experience and ability to achieve compliance goals, through a risk-based approach has a deep understanding of GMP and EHS compliance and compliance risk in Biologics Operations.
• Has proven Lean Six Sigma skills to deliver compliant supply and achieve highest quality, lowest cost and shortest lead-time.
• Has skills to understand and intelligently apply economic, financial and industry data to make business decisions that drive value for our Company and our customers.
• Can Visualize the way forward, identifying opportunities that add value to the work and proactively mitigate risk across the value chain.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal, communication, collaboration and negotiation skills to work outside boundaries as a norm.
• Ability to use deep knowledge and expertise in production operations to drive results and business outcomes.
• Ability to apply understanding of end-to-end supply chain within external and internal network and stakeholders across the network to achieve results and contribute to supply chain optimization.
• Direct Health Authority Audit experience is desirable.

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is committed to be the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a high quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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 for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.