Vp, Americas Manufacturing - Sunnyvale, United States - Cepheid
Description
***: The Vice President, Americas Manufacturing, will be responsible for leading all Manufacturing Operations for our US-based locations, overseeing a network of manufacturing Centers of Excellence teams, leading manufacturing site leaders through transformation, continuous improvement efforts and DE+I initiatives. This includes activities that involve manufacturing process excellence, process engineering and product/process transfer. This position will be accountable for delivery performance in terms of build plan and on-time delivery, cost of goods financial performance, capital projects, maintaining regulatory compliance certifications, and internal & external continuous quality improvement programs across a diverse base of vertically integrated GeneXpert assay franchises.ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leads and coordinates the activities of project(s) with responsibility for results in terms of timelines, cost objectives and process implementation.
- Develops the US production capacity plan in partnership with Global Supply Chain and establish crossfunctional standard work and procedures for maintaining product and company quality standards.
- Active champion of continuous quality and productivity improvement efforts to deliver future organizational objectives. Leads through Danaher Business Systems process excellence standard work.
- Work on complex issues requiring multifactorial analysis to deliver right outcome
- Communicate the company vision and develops site culture through leading from the front with words and actions.
- Collaborates effectively with Global Operations supply chain, manufacturing engineering and shared services functions.
- Accountable for US manufacture operations budget development and compliance resource planning to meet production output and quality objectives.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Education and Experience (in years):
- Requires a minimum 20+ years of Operations and/or Technical Operations with Bachelor's degree or 18+ years with Master's degree
- 10+ years as a leader of leaders
Knowledge and skills:
- An excellent track record in Manufacturing Operations in life sciences and invitro diagnostic regulated space with direct and relevant experience leading multiple 24/7 high throughput manufacturing operations
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highgrowth, fastpaced global setting
- Strong people leadership, a global mindset and strategic thinking are essential while ensuring execution on organizational objectives. Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity
- Requires highlyeffective influencing, verbal and written communications skills, and demonstrated negotiating skills;
- The demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational lines required
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:
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- Prior experience in life science /diagnostic/medical device and/or biopharmaceutical equipment and systems
- Background in R&D or product transfer and failure analysis
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