Job Description
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 125,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
The Director, Strategic Programs in the Value Assurance group, is a pivotal leadership role within the organization, tasked with orchestrating critical initiatives & transformations aimed at driving significant and multi-year cost reduction mandates, product cost-out and value engineering programs, product transfers & network changes, and end-to-end operations transformation across the company. This role demands a thoughtful, experienced, and proactive leader who has broad operations experience across functions and can collaborate effectively with various divisions and functional groups to frame targets and case for change, identify, size, prioritize, resource, and complete strategic programs, ensuring alignment with the company's broader STRAP objectives. This role will have end-to-end ownership of these initiatives, from conceptualization through to execution and impact measurement, working in close partnership with cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable value and build our internal capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the framing, identification, prioritization, resourcing, and execution of large-scale programs focused on cost-out, value engineering, product transfers & network changes, quality improvement, supplier sourcing, or delivery initiatives across multiple divisions, that are critical to the business's success, and ensuring projects are aligned with corporate objectives and deliver measurable financial benefits.
Lead the end-to-end process from framing with Division partners, to initial identification and scoping through to implementation and results tracking, ensuring accountability and clarity at each stage.
Drive cross-functional teams to achieve project goals, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement while handling timelines, resources, and partner expectations. Stand-up large governance cadence and structures to ensure leadership alignment and to remove barriers to execution and pace
Build and maintain a project dashboard on key performance indicators (critical metrics), providing regular updates to senior leadership on project status, risks, and expected outcomes. Develop robust relationships with divisional leaders to understand their challenges and opportunities, integrating this insight into a cohesive value engineering and co-manufacturing strategy.
Champion the adoption of standard methodologies in cost reduction and operational efficiency, sharing knowledge and methodologies across the organization to build internal capabilities.
Collaborate with the Value Assurance group and its organization partners to establish and refine project selection criteria for annual objective planning, ensuring a consistent approach to initiative prioritization and resource allocation. Act as a key liaison between the organization and its divisional partners, facilitating communication and alignment on project objectives, methodologies, and outcomes. Monitor industry trends and leverage benchmarking data to identify new areas for cost reduction, contract manufacturing, and operational improvement, keeping the organization at the forefront of new insights.
Lead steering committee meetings to review project progress, address challenges, and ensure strategic alignment.
Qualifications:
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