Maja Smilevska

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Global MES Team Manager

Status: Actively looking for new full time position
Location: Chicago
Desired location: North Chicago
Basic salary: $125,000
Exp. years: 17 years +
Specialisms: Pharma Suite, PMX, MES, Pharmaceutical manufacturing process
Job Type: Permanent
Availability: Immediate
Overview:

Highly motivated, innovative and creative. Over 17 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical environment:

(GSK, Eli Lilly, Wyeth and Pfizer) specifically with strong base of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

Proven leadership experience in mission critical projects. Driving global consistency by leading functional and technical MES global model review with different stakeholders: vendor, manufacturing sites, global teams, compliance/QA. Manufacturing and Supply Chain expert with passion for customer focus.

Key facilitator in understanding end user needs and translating them into digital solution within the application

Languages: Spanish (Mother tongue and English (Fluent level, both spoken and written)

Aug. 2017 – Present. PFIZER Global Team – Manager, MES Solution Development.

Responsibilities:

  • People management skills (+3-4 colleagues / contractors)
  • Project Lead of critical AMPS deployment releases. Led resource team to ensure timing of global release met leadership and customer expectations.
  • Key facilitator between different stakeholders: Site SMES, Vendor, Global Teams, Core compliance/QA to ensure that business processes/requirements fit on the product finally developed.
  • Solution Development PoC of MES WD/EBR projects for: Algete & Puurs Sites (Biotech OpU), Toluca & Buenos Aires Sites (Small Molecules OpU) and Aprilia Site (Consumer Health OpU)

 

Key Accomplishments:

 

Solution Development Lead for:

  • Sol. Dev Lead for 1st MES release at Pfizer using SAFe. Extensive experience of using Jira and Confluence. Great understanding of Agile environment, Scrum and Lean Methodologies
  • MES implementation in Puurs manufacturing Site for the packaging area.
  • Drive/manage development team to successfully meet 100% of key milestone dates with respect to application delivery and quality for different major MES releases to Sites.
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