Director of Operations

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams

Marie Veronique is a dynamic, mission-driven organization that strives to be a genuine resource for skin health in Berkeley and beyond. We are growing rapidly and maturing quickly, and we need a real leader with experience in production operations in a GMP environment while also developing people to join our team. We have many challenges ahead, but we choose to see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity. If you have the requisite experience and this approach to growth sounds exciting, we’d like to meet you!

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Director of Operations is the executive leader of the Production (Manufacturing), Supply Chain and Facility functions. They are responsible for delivering Marie Veronique products in alignment with Marie Veronique’s revenue, cost and quality objectives. The Director of Operations will lead their team to plan, budget, and execute the Operations strategy and report the outcomes regularly to the COO. The Director of Operations will work closely with the COO to implement and enforce company production operation systems and processes. They are responsible for the hiring and performance management of Operations employees ensuring the continuous improvement of employee performance. The Director of Operations will drive team performance goals for all Marie Veronique products to optimize Efficiency, Yield, Defects/Unit, Workmanship Quality, Material and Direct Labor Costs, all in accordance with GMP best practices. With the COO and the Director of QA/QC/Regulatory, they will develop policies and processes that ensure achievement of the certification objectives of Marie Veronique, up to and including OTC GMP.

They will be responsible for handling the negotiations, budgeting and inventory/resources information for the company, and will oversee the procurement and purchasing of raw materials, as well as logistics and distribution. The Director of Operations will also have primary responsibility for Facility management. The Director of Operations must be an excellent communicator with superior analytical skills, capable of effective collaboration and delegation, as well as have strong leadership skills when managing projects.

WHO WE ARE:

Marie Veronique is a small but rapidly growing skincare company who delivers superior, nontoxic skincare drawing on nature’s genius and the brain of science through innovative formulations. Achieving optimal skin health and healing real skin issues drive us to produce safe products that truly work.

Our founder, Marie-Veronique Nadeau, is a chemist who founded Marie Veronique in 2002. An inventor at heart who suffered from teenage acne, she was moved to create her own products when she could find nothing on the market that was clean and effective to address her rosacea. From there, she went on to develop a line for acne and was one of the first to formulate a non-nano zinc oxide sunscreen. She continues to lead the way towards safe yet effective skincare, determined to move an industry ensconced in hype into the realm of science. She holds degrees in Math and Science, trained as an esthetician, and is a former high school chemistry teacher.

Our products vary from natural oils to water-based serums across a range of cleansers, mists, face oils, serums and masks and although we are a small Berkeley business our products have been featured in Oprah Daily, Vogue, HB Fit, New York Times, The Coveteur, Into The Gloss and the Wall Street Journal.

Marie Veronique provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Marie Veronique abides by applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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ESSENTIAL
DUTIES : Include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Develop the manufacturing strategy and establish plans for
maintaining high standards of manufacturing quality to ensure that products
conform to established customer and company regulatory and quality
standards.

• Prepare and direct the daily, weekly and monthly Production
schedule, resource assignment and Production transactions.

• Build and maintain a fully engaged, talented workforce.
Achieve optimum staffing levels with the least amount of overhead and raw
material costs to meet annual budgetary plan while delivering to the production
demand.

• Ensure the company maintains GMP compliant facilities to uphold
our leadership position in process development and cost-effective manufacturing
of products.

• Perform capacity analysis to support production growth and
productivity goal setting.

• Accomplish goals of the manufacturing strategy consistent with
established manufacturing and safety policies and procedures.

• Work closely with Marie Veronique’s partners to ensure product
demand schedules are fulfilled, the quality of product received meets Marie
Veronique’s standards, product design transfer to manufacturing information is
provided, and manufacturing changes/plans for continuous improvement are
communicated.

• Facilitate Technical Transfer and NPI activities of the
R&D & QA/Regulatory functional groups to ensure successful Production
ramp up and continuous product improvement

• Oversee any additional build out required including but not
limited to assisting in selection of equipment suitable for meeting GMP
requirements and ensure capacity needs are met for several years to come.

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