Sr. Director / GM Manati Operations

Senior Director/General Manager, Drug Product Division-North America
Location: Manati, Puerto Rico

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.

How will you make an impact?

This is a key site leadership role supporting the profitability, revenue and operations goals in Manati, Puerto Rico. Responsible for the profitability of a single business unit (site) by directing the overall business operations within the site including all production operations, product quality, delivery, client service and relations, financial performance (revenue and operating profit), human relations and environmental, health and safety.

What will you do?

• Ensures the site is able to deliver planned contribution margin, gross margin, EBITA and cash flow targets. Enforcing rigor around forecasting accuracy.
• Oversees overal performance of the site related to production – achieving right first time, on time delivery and other critical operational metrics.
• Works in close collaboration with Division and Corporate functional teams in a matrix environment (business management, finance, human resources, quality, etc.).
• Ensure that all products are manufactured in accordance with GMP and meet all specifications.
• Focus on commercial growth and building business and customer base.
• Facilities and all systems must be maintained by the Site Director such that regulatory and client inspection (PAI and General) are passed successfully and without critical observations.
• Ensure that technology transfers of new products into the facility are managed in a timely and technically sound manner.
• Must ensure all clients are satisfied with the service level received.
• Ensure that rapid and accurate technical review and cost estimation occurs in order to secure new business.
• Responsible for reviewing accident investigations, attend Injury Prevention Program meetings on a monthly basis and conduct yearly plant inspections.

How will you get here?
Education

• Successful leadership track record, which includes managing within a matrix environment along with the ability to inspire and lead others.
• Demonstrated ability to drive transformation and customer satisfaction while protecting/scaling the business and quality delivery.
• Ability to generate and maintain information to provide feedback on performance along with strong coaching and employee development skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to build and maintain processes and procedures.
• Ability to plan and prioritize multiple tasks and projects. Completer/Finisher with resilience to ensure a desirable outcome is always achieved.
• Reflector style – able to learn from mistakes and always wants to achieve best possible performance.
• Experience and knowledge of services business solutions.
• Ability to develop high levels of credibility and forge solid and positive professional relationships with C-level customers, peers, and Thermo Fisher executive management.
• Self motivated; bias for action.
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills
• Demonstrate Thermo Fisher Scientific values – Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement

Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent sales/commercial management experience. Masters of Business Administration preferred. High school diploma/equivalent required.
• 10+ years of related work experience; 5 years in a leadership/management role overseeing teams.
• Experience in operations leadership preferred. Functional cross training in QA and business finance
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. Fluency in English and Spanish required.
• Advanced PC skills, especially in Microsoft Office products.
• Preferred:

• High degree of specialization in the outsourcing pharmaceutical field is required for understanding this complex marketplace
• Background in the technical expertise involved in pharmaceutical manufacturing and an understanding of the dynamics in the pharmaceutical industry as a whole.
• This position has been approved for Relocation Assistance.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 70,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

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