Speaker

Michele Leedom

Director, Technology Partnership, Merck & Co.

Michele is a Business Technology Partner at Merck & Co., Inc where she has worked for 16 years in various manufacturing IT roles supporting new facility start up, new drug approvals and commercial manufacturing. In her current role as a member of the Digital Manufacturing Transformation Management Office she is responsible for ensuring the transformation of manufacturing shop floor execution processes follows our standard user centric approach to simplify and standardize business processes before designing fit for purpose digital solutions.

The Pop in Your Job: I get great satisfaction out of using my knowledge and skills to improve any aspect of the manufacturing process knowing that the outcome will lead to making more medicines available to our customers.

Company

Merck & Co.

At Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, we are unified around our purpose: We use the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world. For more than 130 years, we have brought hope to humanity through the development of important medicines and vaccines. We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world — and today, we are at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. We foster a diverse and inclusive global workforce and operate responsibly every day to enable a safe, sustainable and healthy future for all people and communities.