Sr Manager, Operations

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Job Description

Join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., where you will have the outstanding opportunity to lead a world-class Manufacturing and Packaging organization in Allschwil! In this role, you will coordinate the manufacturing, primary, and secondary packaging of clinical trial materials. Your work will be critical in ensuring excellence in detailed operational execution and compliance with all applicable regulatory and quality standards.

Your tasks:

• Apply Good Manufacturing Principles in all areas of Manufacturing & Packaging and ensure everyone in the organization is aligned with all procedures.
• Develop the short, medium, and long-term operational plan with a focus on customer needs, quality requirements, detailed execution, technology, and efficiency improvements.
• Lead, mentor, and develop an effective and motivated team that delivers departmental and business objectives through a culture of continuous improvement.
• Prepare and lead the annual departmental budget, including headcount for the department.
• Implement and lead financial measures which ensure outstanding performance and enable profitable growth.
• Develop and implement efficient practices to ensure timely manufacturing and packing of clients' medicines.
• Demonstrate Role Model Leadership in line with the Role Model Leader Proficiencies.
• Undertake any duties on an ad-hoc basis as the need arises by your Line Manager.

Your profile:

• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant subject.
• Experience in a pharmaceutical or highly regulated environment.
• Proven ability to remove barriers to execution and achieve key outcomes.
• Significant experience in operational roles within manufacturing and packaging for clinical trials and/or commercial products.
• Experience in handling budgets with the ability to plan and lead profitability.
• Experience of organizational change within a regulated environment.
• Strong process improvement knowledge including Lean Manufacturing techniques and experience in implementing process improvement through problem-solving.
• Ability to develop and lead teams through influencing, coaching, and mentoring techniques.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and good English-speaking skills.
• Ability to influence internal and external partners.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000 extraordinary minds has an outstanding story to tell. Join us and contribute to our mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.