Senior Manager Shawnee, KS

Job Purpose
The Senior Manager R&D Kennesaw provides strategic leadership for the deployment and operationalization of R&D technologies into ADMs manufacturing quality and product development pipelines. This role ensures successful translation of phage sporeformer and enzyme programs into Operations Quality Regulatory CD&D. Responsibilities include ensuring readiness of specifications documentation techtransfer packages and compliance elements for commercial deployment. The Senior Manager leads a team of scientists and technicians and partners closely with Operations QA/QC Supply Chain CD&D Regulatory and Medical to ensure new technologies are robust scalable compliant and fully supported postlaunch. This is an operationally anchored role focused on site execution deployment and production support rather than earlystage discovery research.

Main Responsibilities:
Ensure compliance with ADM global safety standards and regulatory requirements maintaining updated SOPs and laboratory safety documentation.
Partner with QA/QC to ensure data integrity method reliability and GMPaligned expectations across deployed technologies.
Lead the translation and deployment of R&D technologies into Operations including preparation and oversight of techtransfer packages specifications and process documentation.
Collaborate with Operations to troubleshoot issues refine procedures and support production teams during onboarding and scaleup of new materials or methods.
Coordinate validation verification and performance qualification activities required for operational adoption and manufacturing readiness.
Ensure alignment with Operations QA/QC Regulatory Medical Supply Chain and CD&D maintaining manufacturability compliance and business continuity.
Develop timelines risk assessments and mitigation plans focused on operational execution and deployment readiness.
Lead and develop a team of 5 scientists and technicians setting expectations coaching and capability development aligned with operational excellence.
Provide scientific oversight for manufacturability stability process behavior and QC readiness including development of operationally relevant data packages (stability robustness impurities tolerances).
Drive crossfunctional communication and continuous improvement preparing technical materials for stakeholders and enhancing R&DOPSQA workflows to support efficient and successful product deployment.
Skills & Abilities:
Operational Leadership: Proven ability to lead coordinate and develop multidisciplinary technical teams driving execution excellence and manufacturingready outcomes.
CrossFunctional Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration with Operations QA/QC Regulatory Medical Supply Chain and CD&D.
Project & Deployment Management: Strong capability to manage techtransfer validation troubleshooting and production support activities from planning through execution.
Organizational Strength: Ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously ensuring structured documentation workflow clarity and operational discipline.
Mentorship & Talent Development: Demonstrated success in coaching guiding and developing scientists and technicians toward high performance and operational excellence.
Technical & Analytical Problem Solving: Skilled in diagnosing and resolving technical operational or qualityrelated issues using datadriven methodologies.
Adaptability & Resilience: Flexible and effective in dynamic operational environments adjusting to evolving technologies priorities and production requirements.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Ability to identify drive and implement improvements across R&DOPSQA workflows enhancing efficiency quality and deployment success..

Education & Experience:
PhD required in relevant scientific field.
812 years industry experience including 35 years people leadership.
Experience across R&D Operations QA/QC Regulatory Medical preferred.
Experience with phage spore-formers and enzymes highly preferred


ADM requires the successful completion of a background check.


Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including market location job-related knowledge skills and experience. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours.

If hired employees will be in an at-will position and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

The pay range for this position is expected to be between:

$70400.00 - $129000.00
Salaried Incentive Plan

The total compensation package for this position will also include annual bonus