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Director, Operations (Process)
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Posted:
28 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
25 October 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader creating breakthrough science to improve peoples health. Were always looking towards the future anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac PediaSure Pedialyte Ensure and Glucerna to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and family be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.
The Opportunity
As the Operations Director - Process you will lead and ensure reliable consistent manufacturing operations producing over 250 SKUs of nutrition products supplied to customers in more than 48 countries including Pacific Asia China LATAM and India. You will provide overall leadership and accountability for manufacturing operations maintenance of equipment and assets and performance ensuring safe compliant and efficient production while driving manufacturing strategies operational excellence and continuous improvement.
What Youll Do
- Lead and ensure reliable consistent manufacturing operations producing over 250 SKUs of nutrition products supplied to customers in more than 48 countries.
- Provide overall leadership and accountability for manufacturing operations maintenance of equipment and assets and performance.
- Define and execute manufacturing strategies to achieve production quality cost and service targets while driving cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Ensure full compliance with Quality Food Safety EHS cGMP ISO and all applicable regulatory and corporate standards
- Apply a global mindset in strategic decision-making leveraging site regional and divisional engineering resources to achieve operational excellence.
- Build lead and develop a high-performing manufacturing and maintenance organization supporting 24/7 operations.
- Oversee execution of critical programs and capital projects ensuring delivery timelines operational readiness and measurable business value.
- Provide strategic and operational leadership to the Manufacturing Department translating business vision into clear objectives priorities and actionable plans.
- Partner cross-functionally with R&D Regulatory Quality Engineering Commercial and Supply Chain to align product strategies and enable smooth transfer of new products into operations.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for production reliability quality cost and service and lead actions to achieve target performance.
- Manage departmental budgets control operating costs and deliver productivity and cost-savings initiatives through process and technology improvements.
- Lead Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) related to operations and take command during production disruptions emergencies or compliance-critical events.
- Foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration continuous improvement Right-First Time and Quality-at-Source across the manufacturing organization.
- Champion EHS excellence by ensuring compliance with environmental laws permits and regulations.
- Partner closely with HR on workforce planning recruitment succession leadership development engagement and retention.
Requirements
- More than 15 years of progressive experience in senior operations roles within a manufacturing environment 10 years managed process.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with GMP and EHS requirements including active participation in both internal and external audits.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong interpersonal abilities to effectively engage employees at all organizational levels complemented by solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to organize motivate and develop teams as well as to identify quality issues and resolve them using CAPA and other structured problem-solving methodologies.
- Demonstrated strong business acumen with a customer-focused mindset.
- Highly effective in problem-solving workload planning resource allocation and priority management.
- Passionate about fostering a culture of innovation within and beyond the department to improve the reliability efficiency and overall performance of manufacturing operations.
- Bachelors Degree in Science or Engineering or other related discipline
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Manufacturing
DIVISION:
ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain
LOCATION:
Singapore > Singapore : SN01
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Not specified
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Not Applicable
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
WHO WE ARE CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s ... View more
