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Sr Manager, Operational ExcellencePPI Business System


Job Location:

Allentown, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 3 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 31 August 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Title: Sr Manager Operational Excellence/PPI Business System

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.

Division/Site Specific Information

Role reports to the Allentown PA site and reports to the Clinical Trials Division (CTD). CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time a concept that we internally embrace as There is a Patient Waiting. Our outstanding blend of services includes project management packaging distribution transportation management and specialty logistics ancillary supply management clinical supply optimization bio-repository storage and much more.

Our more than 3000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

Discover Impactful Work:

As a Senior Manager of PPI Business System at Thermo Fisher Scientific you will facilitate transformational change and continuous improvement across the organization. Leading the implementation of our Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System you will partner with business leaders to establish and mature lean management practices that enable profitable growth enhance customer experience and increase employee engagement. Through strategic deployment coaching and hands-on facilitation of improvement initiatives you will help develop a problem-solving culture focused on operational excellence.

Youll collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline processes eliminate waste and deliver measurable results in quality productivity and customer satisfaction.

A Day in the Life:
  • Lead deployment and sustainment of the site PPI Business System including Daily Management Leader Standard Work and Tiered Accountability

  • Partner with the Site Leadership Team to align PPI priorities with strategic objectives driving performance accountability and fact-based decision making

  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement by embedding PPI principles and behaviors into daily operations across all levels

  • Translate site goals into actionable measurable objectives across value streams to improve safety quality delivery and cost performance

  • Own and manage the site productivity funnel ensuring robust identification prioritization execution and tracking of improvement initiatives

  • Coach and develop leaders and teams in Lean principles structured problem solving (A3) and root cause analysis to build sustainable capability

  • Lead and facilitate kaizen events and high-impact improvement initiatives while enabling teams to independently sustain and replicate results

  • Implement and maintain visual management and performance systems to enable transparency rapid issue escalation and data-driven decisions

  • Assess PPI maturity and develop roadmaps to advance site capabilities standardize best practices and close performance gaps

  • Ensure strong linkage between PPI initiatives and business outcomes including financial performance and customer impact

  • Champion a structured data-driven approach to problem solving ensuring sustainable countermeasures and continuous learning

Keys to Success:

Education
  • BS degree required in Engineering Science Business Operations or related field.

  • Six Sigma Black Belt and/or Lean certification; PMP a plus.

Experience
  • Advanced degree with 6 years or bachelors degree with 8 years of experience in Lean leadership continuous improvement or operational excellence required.

  • Experience in manufacturing operations or a related environment.

  • Demonstrated experience deploying Lean/PPI tools including daily management systems value stream mapping and problem-solving methodologies.

  • Experience coaching and developing continuous improvement capabilities in leaders and teams.

  • Experience leading change in a matrixed global organization.

  • Experience in regulated industries (e.g. life sciences medical devices).

Knowledge Skills Abilities
  • Demonstrates Thermo Fishers PPI mindset: Bias for Action Customer Focus and Continuous Improvement

  • Strong financial and business acumen with ability to quantify and track improvement impact

  • Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities

  • Strong influencing and communication skills across all organizational levels

  • Ability to lead through others without direct authority

  • Data-driven structured thinker with strong analytical capability

  • Proven ability to drive engagement and sustain cultural change

  • Willingness to travel up to 30%

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration annual incentive plan bonus scheme 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.


Required Experience:

Manager


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