Azenta Life Sciences · 20 hours ago
Director, Azenta Business System
Burlington, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$171K/yr - $214K/yr
8+ years expAzenta Life Sciences is dedicated to enabling life sciences organizations around the world to bring impactful breakthroughs and therapies to market – faster. The Director of the Azenta Business System will play a pivotal role in driving continuous improvement and organizational change, responsible for Lean deployment and strategy development across US-based sites.
BiotechnologyClinical TrialsLife Science
Responsibilities
Utilizing the Azenta Business System to improve safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and other KPIs
Aligning corporate strategy with site-based goals, needs, and improvement priorities
Providing overall support, assistance, and direction to plant leadership teams regarding CI initiatives
Utilizing data to identify gaps in performance versus best practices; work with teams to execute improvement plans
Leading and coaching CI events and Kaizens through hands-on participation
Developing Lean competencies in others to ensure sustainment
Assisting with improvement of asset utilization and equipment management
Developing training materials and effectively delivering in a team environment
Understanding and applying financial drivers and key performance indicators
Documenting best practices and sharing improvements to leverage results across Azenta
Collaborating with global ABS leaders, plant teams, and executive leadership to ensure alignment on corporate strategy and goals
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Chemistry, or related
8-10 years relevant work experience across Continuous Improvement and Operations within a manufacturing/industrial environment
Training and dedicated experience with Continuous Improvement/Lean methodology; Lean certifications preferred
Proven successful application of Lean tools including 80/20, Lean Leadership, including Daily Management, KPI Leadership, Standard Work, Gemba Walks, Value Stream Mapping, 6S, Transactional Process Improvements, Kanban/replenishment systems, Structured Problem Solving, etc
Experience leading manufacturing operations in addition to dedicated Lean roles
Demonstrated ability to facilitate Kaizen events to produce sustained, measurable improvements
Influential leadership skills to develop, mentor, and train employees at all levels without direct supervisory responsibility
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to relate to people at all levels of the organization
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and general computer skills
Preferred
Experience in Life Sciences, consumables/instrumentation, or regulated industry preferred
Background in Industrial automation, genomics, cold chain, and/or GLP is beneficial
Strategy / Policy Deployment experience preferred
Power Automate, Power Apps, Tableau experience preferred
Company
Azenta Life Sciences
Azenta Life Sciences provides life sciences solutions.
1001-5000 employees
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2024 (3)
2023 (13)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$508.35MKey Investors
JP Morgan ChaseBrooks AutomationBroadOak Capital Partners
2022-11-23Post Ipo Equity· $500M
2021-12-01IPO
2014-03-12Series Unknown· $5.85M
Leadership Team
Lawrence Lin
EVP and CFO
Recent News
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