Manager, Strategic Initiatives (PPI)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to 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.

How you will make an impact

The Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives acts as the point person and liaison for program initiatives. As such, they are responsible for communicating with and connecting project and program collaborators to the right people and resources.

The main goals will be to strategize, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives. Develop program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement. Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance. Oversee multiple project teams, ensuring program goals are reached.

This role will be responsible for driving standard application of tools, demonstrating industry standard from across the network and reporting productivity metrics.

Responsibilities:

• Share industry standard and drive continuous improvement and Standard Work across all organizational elements to achieve targets in growth, quality, and productivity.

• Establish and mature the Lean Management System (tiered daily management systems, GEMBA walks, and leader standard work) and other coaching tools.

• Lead Steering Committee to ensure there is an active pipeline of projects aligned to business priorities, metrics, and results. Ensure that there is a validated sustainability mechanism/review for past projects.

• Challenge organizational leaders as vital to create an action-based environment of continuous improvement and accountability to improve growth, productivity, inventory, and customer allegiance.

• Facilitate, support and/or lead of a wide range and scope of improvement initiatives using traditional improvement tools and methodologies while simultaneously transferring relevant knowledge and capabilities to staff.

• Statistical analysis of process data and, through working with technicians at the point-of-work, recommend/implement optimization solutions to maintain/improve performance and ensure customer requirements are being met.

• Work within functional areas to seek problems and develop solutions which address true root cause(s); transfer problem-solving and process improvement knowledge and competencies through all working relationships.

• Serve as the primary business unit change agent: promote a site-wide culture of process and performance excellence, challenging traditional thinking, boundaries, and modes of operation.

• Supervise and advise the work department staff members.

• Occasional travel

How you will get here

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, operations or business (preferred); Master’s degree is a plus

• 5+ years of experience working as a full time Continuous Improvement leader.

• 7+ years working in an operations or manufacturing environment.

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred

• Experience leading Kaizen events including standard work, 5S, Kanban, cell design, DMAIC, process and product 3P, Value Stream Mapping (VSM), error-proofing, material flow, TPM and Set up reduction.

• Experience with leading a team and providing hands-on leadership.

• Experience developing, training, and coaching employee teams in a continuous improvement environment.

• Experience with coaching alignment between strategic business plans and lean improvement plans, (i.e. Strategic A3’s, X-matrix), Organizational Change Certification (preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• A ‘hands-on’ track record of implementing successful Continuous Improvement (CI) elements

• Effective in influencing leaders to develop ground-breaking target states and rapidly inspire change.

• Critical thinking to anticipate future issues and challenges and create appropriate plans now, using proactive approaches.

• Formal Lean training and extensive knowledge of Lean and continuous improvement methodologies and tools

• Passion for driving business improvement and leading change.

• Accomplished written, oral, and presentational skills. Comfortable and capable communicating at all levels of the organization

• Broad knowledge of financial business methods

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.

• Familiarity with Good Manufacturing Practices and experience and understanding of basics of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing would be an asset.

• Strong negotiating skills

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000+ extraordinary minds have 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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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.