Associate Director Training and Deviations - Summit West, NJ

Job Description

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The Associate Director, Training and Deviations, is a leadership role that serves as the cornerstone of a compliant, capable, and continuously evolving manufacturing organization. This role is accountable for shaping and delivering a site-specific manufacturing training strategy while ensuring the consistent production of thorough, high-quality deviation assessments and investigations that safeguard product quality and regulatory compliance.

As an integral member of the Process Improvement and Compliance Team, this leader directly oversees two specialized teams — Manufacturing Trainers and Deviation Assessment Writers — uniting their efforts to drive a culture of learning, accountability, and operational excellence across both product lines. Working in close partnership with the Sr. Director, this role takes a proactive approach to workforce development and quality event management, ensuring that people, processes, and compliance standards at the site level are continuously strengthened.

Given the demands of a 24-hour, 365-day manufacturing operation, this role is critical in ensuring that training readiness and deviation management support are consistently available and responsive across all shifts and operational cycles — leaving no gap in compliance coverage or workforce competency.

In summary, this role exists to ensure the right people have the right knowledge at the right time — and that when things go wrong, the organization learns, adapts, and improves.

Monday
- Friday, Onsite Day Shift, 10 a.m.

- 6 p.m. (flexibility to support evening team as needed)

Leads by example, modeling BMS values and holding their team accountable to the same standards of integrity, inclusion, and excellence. Builds and sustains an engaging, accountable, and learning-focused team culture that inspires continuous growth and high performance across the Training and Deviation Assessment teams. Actively supports the manufacturing operational team by ensuring they are equipped with the knowledge, competencies, and resources needed to perform at their best — fostering a collaborative environment where learning and operational excellence go hand in hand.

Accountable for the oversight and delivery of the site‑specific manufacturing training programs and deviation assessments, ensuring alignment with GMP regulations, BMS policies, and all applicable regulatory requirements. Ensures training documentation, deviation records, and associated quality artifacts are always maintained in a consistently audit‑ready state. Accountable for the integration and adherence to global quality standards and metrics as they relate to training compliance and deviation management.

Drives Right First Time (RFT) principles within the manufacturing organization by identifying training gaps that contribute to deviations and implementing targeted interventions to reduce recurrence. RFT in the development of robust training materials by proactively assessing the learning needs of the manufacturing organization and providing flexible, audience-centered delivery approaches — ensuring training content is relevant, effective, and impactful the first time it is introduced.

Represents the Training and Deviations function in quality councils and associated review boards, including CCRB, IRB, and other applicable forums, as applicable. Supports and leads internal and external audits related to training and deviation management, developing appropriate improvement strategies to maintain operational processes within compliance and licensure guidance. Identifies, assesses, and prioritizes risks related to…