-: My name is Caton Guzrathie.
I currently work at Burgmeier's Web.
I'm the Associate Director of Business Operations
for a biologics manufacturing network.
Our biologics portfolio, which is all of our key brands
for lung cancer, for example, comes directly
out of the sites that I oversee,
so my goal is to help facilitate our sites
in executing whatever they need to
to ensure reliable production and supply to our patients.
So a perfect example is Hurricane Maria impacted Puerto Rico
immensely last year and a lot of our products
come out of Puerto Rico, so the disruption
from the hurricane could really impact
supply of life saving medicine,
and sort of my job is to help figure out strategically
can we move production elsewhere.
As we're recovering from the impact,
even though it was over six months ago,
do we have adequate supply of
our medicine in the marketplace
and are patients getting access to it.
You know, are we taking care of our people?
And so that's sort of employee engagement,
employee growth and development,
and then the other piece of it is safety,
like are our employees safe at work?
So we have different indicators
to measure the health of our objectives in both those areas
and then from there, we look at how well are we
executing on our operations in manufacturing,
how well are we delivering medicine to our patient,
are we doing that in a compliant, safe, efficacious way?
So within right qualities, sort of bringing
healthy medicine to the market.
And then, at the very bottom of it,
if you do all these things well,
then you assume that you're gonna be doing it
in a fiscally responsible way, so are we cost efficient?
So if there's a safety incident,
we have safety leaders at each manufacturing site.
So once a month, for example, I'll facilitate
a conversation between all of our safety leaders,
you know, to share lessons learned,
if there were any atypical safety concerns,
and a site's already come up with a solution,
we don't have to recreate the wheel,
so then what I get to do is strategically share
learnings and best practices across our network.