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When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work that positively impacts a global scale. Join 100,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life daily to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. You'll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, ensuring our food is safe, or helping find cures for cancer. This position will be at our Fremont, CA, location and will support Niche Diagnostics, part of the Clinical Diagnostics Division and the Specialty Diagnostics Group. The Sr. Manager, Business Excellence, will be responsible for implementing Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System for Niche Diagnostics. In this role, you will partner cross-functionally to implement PPI practices, driving a change in operating mentality and ensuring PPI principles are applied to support strategic and operational business plans. The position will work closely with the Operations and Senior Leadership teams to mature PPI tools to drive a continuous improvement culture. You will partner with various functions and leaders (Operations, Quality, R&D, Product Management & Business Development, Finance, etc.) to ensure an active pipeline of critical initiatives aligned with business priorities, metrics, and results. Establish a sustainability and governance mechanism. Collaborate with Business Leaders to establish strategic plans via strategy deployment (X-matrix/A3), enable Key Performance Indicator Leadership, and develop PPI capability through training, qualification, and mentoring. You will be the "Go To" person for Lean concepts, training & tools, and applications supporting high-impact initiatives. As a change agent, you will influence, communicate, and institutionalize a culture of simplification, standardization, and continuous improvement. Additionally, you will support leaders and PPI practitioners in increasing autonomy, developing lean expertise and capability within the function, and accelerating change. Support functional leadership by assessing the PPI health across the four categories of People, Process, Leadership, and Technology, and establish mechanisms to increase the efficiency of building proficiencies & rewarding learning.
