Sr Manager, Operations

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Manager, Operations

When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join 100,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life each day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You'll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

This person will be a strategic partner in our manufacturing operations team for the Business Unit Niche Diagnostics. Reporting into the Senior Director, Operations, the role will be leading a production Value Stream to achieve required business results for our Toxicology product line.

Location

Fremont, CA

How will you make an impact?

We are seeking a Senior Manager who will lead the operations team in the Toxicology Value Stream. Your primary responsibilities will be to ensure products are manufactured with the highest level of quality and compliance in a safe and timely manner that will meet customer expectations and cost commitments. You will be joining a dynamic Operations Leadership Team and playing an influential part in developing and motivating an impactful team of both direct and indirect team members. This role will be collaborating across all functions to achieve a common set of goals. Direct reports will include managers, supervisors, and indirect/dotted line reports from all functions across the value stream that support operations.

What will you do?

• Lead Toxicology product line operations to achieve on time delivery, demand-based capacity, safety, quality, cost and continuous improvement through lean leadership.
• Ensure the product-specific manufacturing goals are achieved and assure production and laboratory standards are in compliance with all GMP, ISO, FDA, OSHA, and other company manufacturing and safety guidelines.
• Responsible for meeting the product line's financial targets, key performance indicators (critical metrics) and benchmarks including productivity, operating income, revenue, margins, inventory, and growth.
• Responsible for value stream's ongoing management of Sales, Inventory, and Operation Planning (SIOP) and for minimizing excess and obsolescent inventory.
• Develop and enhance close relationships with the life cycle leadership to ensure tight alignment with evolving customer requirements, including available to promise, delivery and value-added services, documentation requirements, etc.
• Provide leadership to accomplish continuous improvement in quality, manufacturing cycle time and total cost by advocating and driving the PPI Business System within the production. Drive strategies to decrease costs at least 3% per year across the organization.
• Require routine, focused operational reviews that cascade through the organization to the production floor, enabling rapid resolution of performance issues and objective evidence of strong performance to be rewarded.
• Listens, supports, engages and encourages employee suggestions and input to achieve excellent results while supporting a culture of accountability.
• Monitors, reviews, and improves manufacturing and quality related activities and drives investigations and corrective and preventative actions.
• Collaborate with senior leaders of major customers and internal cross-functional partners to provide outstanding service in line with their expectations.

How will you get here?

Education

• BA/BS Degree in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, or other scientific/technical subject area required. Advanced degree such as MBA or Masters preferred.
• A minimum of 5-8 years of industry related experience with expertise in leading and developing staff in a manufacturing and/or distribution operations environment.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Experience in a diagnostic manufacturing environment with thorough knowledge of a variety of laboratory chemicals, potentially hazardous chemicals, human source materials, and reagent manufacturing activities.
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to adhere to established quality standards and regulatory compliance requirements for medical device or diagnostics.
• Technical skills in manufacturing techniques, FDA, GMP, ISO 13485 compliance, process improvement and process development.
• Exceptional supply chain optimization expertise and project management experience.
• Experience in implementing or working with effective continuous improvement.
• Practical understanding and experience with IT systems (ERP, MES, WMS, etc).
• Strong eye for business with a broad knowledge of P&L, Balance Sheet, NPV/Return on Investment, and cost accounting principles.
• A strong balance of analytical skills and action orientation to drive sustaining results with intensity, at times demonstrating the confidence, conviction and collaboration to innovate new strategies and methodologies.
• Track record of achieving results and shown ability to clearly identify and communicate a cogent vision, optimally lead through ambiguity and uncertainty, take appropriate risks and make sound decisions.
• Excellent communication, executive presentation, and leadership skills with a collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Able to optimally collaborate with peers in other value streams and with colleagues in other businesses or divisions.
• Superior organizational skills with ability to multi-task and balance complex and routine work activities.
• Ability to lead, empower and influence others.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing others through personalized development plans.
• Ability to travel globally as business requires (10% minimum).

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission-enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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Benefits:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits!

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform critical job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $141,800.00-$200,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards