Manager, Strategic Initiatives (PPI)

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll 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 world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

• Share industry standard and drive continuous improvement and Standard Work across all organizational elements to achieve targets in growth, quality, and productivity.
• Establish and mature the Lean Management System (tiered daily management systems, GEMBA walks, and leader standard work) and other coaching tools.
• Lead Steering Committee to ensure there is an active pipeline of projects aligned to business priorities, metrics, and results. Ensure that there is a validated sustainability mechanism/review for past projects.
• Challenge organizational leaders as vital to create an action-based environment of continuous improvement and accountability to improve growth, productivity, inventory, and customer allegiance.
• Facilitate, support and/or lead of a wide range and scope of improvement initiatives using traditional improvement tools and methodologies while simultaneously transferring relevant knowledge and capabilities to staff.
• Statistical analysis of process data and, through working with technicians at the point-of-work, recommend/implement optimization solutions to maintain/improve performance and ensure customer requirements are being met.
• Work within functional areas to seek problems and develop solutions which address true root cause(s); transfer problem-solving and process improvement knowledge and competencies through all working relationships.
• Serve as the primary business unit change agent: promote a site-wide culture of process and performance excellence, challenging traditional thinking, boundaries, and modes of operation.
• Supervise and advise the work department staff members.
• Occasional travel