Director, Pharmaceutical Operations
Merck & Co., Inc. - Rahway NJ, New Jersey
Anna Jenks is currently the Director, Production Lead at Merck & Co., Inc. in the FLEX drug product clinical manufacturing facility for Oral Solid Dosage in Rahway, NJ. She is leading the operations team through facility start-up and now into standard full-time operations.
Anna has significant experience in API operations in a variety of piloting, internal and external manufacturing environments. She led the cross-functional supplier management team for Merck’s North America API suppliers. Before this time, Anna was the Assistant Production Lead at the Small Scale Organics (SSO) pilot plant in Rahway. She also served as the strategic and operations lead to Allen Templeton, leading the strategic refresh, coordinating communications, partnering with HR, and progressing business operations of his organization.
Anna joined Merck’s Chemical Engineering R&D after graduating from the University of Michigan (B.S.E ChemE 2011) progressing through process development and operations. She rotated through pilot plants and the Ballydine Ireland manufacturing site, as a process engineer on doravirine, relebactam, belzutifan, nematabrunib, and other programs.
At work, Anna is passionate about organizational psychology and building strong teams. She has led significant D&I work including her 2019 Imagine@Merck talk on Psychological Safety.
Outside of work, Anna enjoys glassblowing, painting, and skiing.
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