Sr Manager, PPI Business System

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System is designed to coach, facilitate, and grow the continuous improvement culture throughout the organization. In this role, you will work closely with business leadership and sites to establish and mature the PPI System across the organization. This position partners with key collaborators to establish multi-year plans via strategy deployment tools and leading kaizen activity to enable the teams to achieve their business goals and objectives.

This position will be remote U.S. and will have a travel expectation of 30%.Responsibilities

• Lead/work with functional teams to streamline processes to improve the customer experience, enable profitable growth, and become more efficient.
• Diplomatically cultivate an action-biased culture of continuous improvement to improve critical metrics, in the areas of customer, finance, people, and quality.
• Provide support to develop lean expertise and capability within the organization at all levels.
• Improve the decision-making model and problem-solving capabilities within high-performance teams to increase autonomy and the pace of change.
• Provide ongoing Lean support to multiple teams.
• Work with the expanded team to develop/promote/standardize the Business System further.
• Drive strategy deployment and strategic initiatives across the Group.

Success Factors    

• Passion for driving improvement and leading change in a sophisticated, global environment
• Broad knowledge of multi-functional, multi-site, global organizational processes and financial business methods.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to connect with and positively influence leadership and all levels of the organization
• Able to drive critical thinking and continuous improvement in both non-operational and operational areas, including connecting cross-functional resources to remove waste along the extended value streams.
• A multidisciplinary problem solver who can look enterprise-wide to integrate and streamline systems for efficient benefit.
• Phenomenal communicator, including proven written, oral, and presentation-giving skills.
• High ethical standards to support a professional business code of conduct.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, operations or business, with evidence of operational, leadership, or professional experience.

Experience

• 8+ years demonstrated ability to lead continuous project/ process improvement initiatives.
• Preferred Six Sigma belt certification with practical experience
• Experienced lean practitioner with hands-on experiences coaching and deploying continuous improvement culture, including:
  • Lean Leadership
  • Strategy Deployment and Value-stream mapping
  • Kaizen events on standard work, cell design, process and product 3P, Value-Analysis/Value Engineering, error-proofing, material flow, Heijunka, and Kanban.
  • Expertise in problem-solving and applying a formal program/process
  • Use of SPC and Variation Reduction tools
• Consistent track record of identifying and delivering year-over-year results using metric-driven problem-solving.
• Consistent record for developing, training, and mentoring teams.
  • A self-directed leader with a proven track record of leading/influencing across and up into the organization without direct reporting responsibility.
• Plant Management experience is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Six Sigma Belt (preferred)
• Lean Certification (preferred)
• PMP (preferred)

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, 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!

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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