Senior Manager, Continuous Improvement

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll 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 worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work

The Senior Manager implements Thermo Fisher Scientifics PPI Business System with leadership to drive continuous improvement in customer satisfaction finance people and quality. This role will develop lean expertise across all levels and support multiple teams in standardizing our Business System. As part of the PPI Steering Committee youll streamline processes improve customer experience drive profitable growth and boost efficiency.

A Day in the life

• Strategy Implementation: Collaborate with the site leadership team to identify chances for enhancing the business.
• Site Engagement: Champion an action-biased culture of continuous improvement to improve critical metrics in the areas of customer finance people and quality.
• Developing Talent: Provide support to develop lean expertise and capability within the organization at all levels.
• PPI Business System: Provide ongoing Lean support to multiple teams. Work with the expanded team to develop/promote/standardize the Business System further.
• PPI Steering Committee: Focus on enhancing opportunities and crafting a plan for site deployment. Collaborate with functional teams to streamline processes improving customer experience driving profitable growth and boosting efficiency.
• Daily Tiered Management: Improve the decision-making model and problem-solving capabilities within teams to increase autonomy and the pace of change.

Keys to Success

Education

• Bachelors degree in engineering science operations business or related field required or equivalent experience.

Experience

• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.
• 5 years of leadership experience
• 7 years of Lean leadership expertise with extensive experience implementing successful continuous improvement-based business systems including elements such as:
  • Lean Management System
  • 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.
• Prior experience in people management experience.
• Expertise in problem-solving applying a formal program/process.
• Strong experience developing training and coaching teams.
• Evidence of identifying and delivering year-over-year results.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

• Broad knowledge of multi-functional multi-site global processes and financial business methods.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to partner 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 the cross-functional resources to remove waste along the extended value streams.
• Ability to travel 10-25%

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!

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

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Senior Manager