Director Manufacturing, EUAPAC (fmd)

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At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences we know time is the most critical facet in the laboratory today: time to get life-saving therapies to patients faster; reclaiming time by automating tedious manual workflows; and saving time spent addressing erroneous or complex results.

We are partners in time and accelerate answers to critical questions through the power of automation. We develop innovations for scientists by scientists with many of our 3300 global colleagues coming from the laboratory.

Its all part of our time-tested approach to bringing meaningful innovations at the speed of life since 1935. And were just beginning. Working together lets put our time and talents together to advance human health for tomorrow.

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The Director EU/APAC Manufacturing is accountable for the strategic and operational performance of multiple manufacturing sites across Marseille (France) Aachen (Germany) Suzhou (China) and Bangalore (India). This leader ensures consistent delivery against safety quality delivery cost and people objectives while deploying DBS to translate global strategy into disciplined execution at the site and valuestream level.

This is a highly visible leadership role that partners closely with Global Operations Supply Chain Quality Engineering and Commercial leaders to support growth improve customer experience and build a scalable resilient manufacturing network.

This position reports to the Vice President Global Operations & Supply Chain and is part of the Global Operations leadership team. It will be an on-site role in Aachen (Germany).

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Own the EU/APAC manufacturing performance across all sites delivering results across Safety Quality Delivery Inventory Productivity and Cost (SQDIP).

• Ensure manufacturing capacity labor and capability are aligned with business growth plans and customer demand.

• Drive disciplined execution through DBS; Daily Management Visual Management Standard Work Dynamic KANBAN IMAG Heijunka Scheduling structured problem solving and a sustainable culture of continuous improvement accountability and datadriven decisionmaking across all sites.

• Build coach and develop highperforming plant and regional leadership teams. Lead succession planning and talent pipelines for critical manufacturing an inclusive safe and engaged culture with strong ownership and accountability at all levels.

• Partner with Engineering R&D Product Management Quality and Commercial teams on new product introductions transfers and lifecycle manufacturing input into designformanufacturability cost reduction and innovation initiatives.

• Coordinate with the Global Quality requirements to operate aligned with FDA ISO13485 and Customer Audits to achieve total customer the operations team to ensure a culture of Quality continuous improvement and strong executional discipline to quality expectations.

• Own the regional manufacturing supply response within the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) with Commercial and Supply Chain teams to translate demand signals into executable production staffing and inventory plans. Identify and mitigate supply risk improve service levels and optimize inventory performance.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• B.S. with Minimum of 12 years experience in manufacturing (aerospace medical devices life sciences biotechnology or similar) with 8 in Operations and/or Supply Chain leadership roles MBA preferred. 3 years or more experience leading multicultural operations teams across Asia and Europe.Extensive manufacturing leadership experience within complex multisite global operations preferably in regulated or highreliability environments.

• Experience must include building high performing teams and managing a plant or manufacturing site and leading manufacturing value streams in a high mix low volume environment preferably multi-site leadership experience.

• Expertise with management (leading motivating challenging influencing) to drive change management in a fast-moving business.

• Commitment and Success demonstrated in continuous improvement tools such as Lean Manufacturing. Ability to think strategically identifying key business issues and formulating strategic options.

• Proven analytical skills modelling and experience of producing and presenting business cases for strategic development. Strong global business knowledge and influence understand different cultures and approaches and can lead follow work and influence at all levels and in all functions of the organization.

• Affinity to go to Gemba and lead by example; ability to influence decision making with or without authority facilitate groups with varied perspectives and bring teams to agreement. High tolerance for ambiguity and demonstrated success working in a highly matrixed organization.

• Experience building productive relationships and influencing others both within the business and across organizations. Ability to interact with all levels (senior leaders to working teams) extraordinarily good listening skills able to present complex or new insights with clarity and simplicity.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in life sciences diagnostics medical devices or highmix/lowvolume manufacturing.

• Exposure to automation digital manufacturing MES/OEE systems or Industry 4.0 initiatives.

• Formal training or certification in DBS Lean Six Sigma or similar continuous improvement methodologies.

• Aspirations to grow & develop into L1 VP Operations role.

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 40% both domestic & international.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1