Senior Manager, PPI Business System

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.

Job Description

The Senior Manager will lead the implementation of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System for GSD. In this role, you will partner with SG&A (Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Planning, Supply Chain, etc.) to implement PPI practices, driving both a change in operating mindset and ensuring PPI principles are applied effectively in support of strategic and operational business plans. The position will work closely with SG&A functional leadership to mature PPI tools to drive a problem-solving and continuous improvement culture.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with SG&A leadership (Commercial, Marketing, R&D, Planning, Supply Chain, etc.) to ensure an active pipeline of critical initiatives aligned to business priorities, metrics, and results. Establish a sustainability and governance mechanism.
• Collaborate with Business Leaders to establish 3-year strategic plans via strategy deployment (X-matrix/A3), enable Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Leadership, and develop PPI capability in the Business through training, qualification, and coaching.
• Serve as subject matter expert and “Go To” person for Lean concepts, training & tools application in support of high-impact initiatives. Coach the coaches.
• Develop talent: provide support to leaders and PPI practitioners to increase autonomy, develop lean expertise and capability within the function, and accelerate the pace of change.
• Support functional leadership with assessing the PPI health across the four categories of People, Process, Leadership, and Technology.
• Serve as a change agent by influencing, communicating, and institutionalizing a culture of simplification, standardization, and continuous improvement
• Establish mechanisms to monitor effectiveness of building competencies & rewarding learning

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to partner with leadership teams in establishing multi-year plans via strategy deployment (X-matrix/A3)
• Broad knowledge of multi-functional, global processes, and financial business methods.
• Impactful communicator with the ability to positively influence leadership and all levels of the organization
• Able to drive critical thinking and continuous improvement in non-operational areas, including connecting the cross-functional resources to improve efficiency of the extended value streams.
• Ability to manage/influence across and up into the organization without direct reporting responsibility. Motivate cross-functional teams to drive customer satisfaction through business process improvement
• Proven leadership skills including the ability to work in a matrixed environment

Experience

• Minimum 9+ years of Lean leadership expertise with extensive experience implementing end-to-end Business-level change initiatives
• Mastery of Lean and Six Sigma toolset with proven results
• Lean practitioner, capable of leading & facilitating kaizen events and coaching the core tools including adoption of these tools to a transactional process environment. 
• Strong experience developing, training, and coaching teams.
• Consistent track record of identifying opportunities and delivering year-over-year results.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Operations, Business or related field required.
• Lean Expert or Black Belt certification preferred.

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Compensation and Benefits

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