Senior Director, Operations

Description

By joining the Bio-Techne team you will have an impact on future cutting-edge research. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics.

Position Summary :

The Senior Director of Operations leads our Minneapolis and St. Paul manufacturing sites. Minneapolis, our corporate headquarters site and our future Reagents Focused Factory, manufactures and ships recombinant proteins, GMP proteins, antibodies, ELISA kits, Luminex assays, cell culture media, and hematology controls.

St. Paul, our state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing facility, produces GMP proteins. Together, Minneapolis and St. Paul supply customers to support their academic research, bio-pharma drug discovery, quality control, and more.

The scope of this role includes leading our manufacturing, process engineering, materials, and facilities teams ( 250 team members, $400M revenue, 850K sqft facilities).

The role reports to the VP of Operations & Supply Chain and has a dotted line (as a matrix partner) to 3 Divisions. The role includes a growth component as Minneapolis & St.

Paul currently have high growth products, they are expected to become enterprise focused factories, and Minneapolis serves as our corporate headquarters.

As the leader, you will be accountable for creating and executing a strategy that both meets the needs of the businesses you serve, and meets the needs of the broader enterprise-level operational strategy.

Within that, you will be responsible for building a high-performance team, for building an outstanding culture, for executing on short & long-term KPI’s (safety, quality, delivery, cost), and for building & executing an operational site strategy for your 2 sites with a high sense of urgency, with effective collaboration with your cross-functional partners, and with strong communication with your team, your peers, and with senior leadership.

The ideal candidate is strategic, can identify the critical few, has a bias to action, and has a history of consistently achieving strong quantifiable results.

He / she is regarded as a team player, is called selfless, is straightforward / non-political, and consistently develops / mentors the team.

The ideal candidate excels in developing an engaged culture and a highly capable team. Operationally, the ideal candidate will leverage his / her prior experience in leading complex & technical manufacturing across multiple product lines and will leverage his / her strength in structured problem solving to identify and execute effectively on the critical few.

Key Responsibilities :

• Build / develop an exceptional team
• Build a strong culture (people excited to come to work & people from other sites want to work in Minnesota; coupled with strength in structured problem solving & continuous improvement)
• Lead within our EPIC framework (empowerment / passion / innovation / collaboration); demonstrate deep respect for people through your work
• Consistently meet existing core KPI’s (safety / quality / delivery / cost)
• Develop and execute a strategy to scale our existing product lines in a cost-effective manner
• Create and execute a vision for a reagents focused factory; manage incoming product line transfers (as applicable)
• Simultaneously drive stretch improvement in some areas, with incremental in others
• Ensure that team and infrastructure are always both ahead of growth, and within budget
• Communicate & collaborate effectively with your team, peers, the businesses you work for, and senior leadership
• Lead with facts / data
• Execute with a sense of urgency, delivering results
• Maintain compliance to ISO 9001 & ISO 13485 QMS

Qualifications

Experience :

• Minimum 10 years of experience managing manufacturing operations
• Track record of building exceptional teams and culture
• Track record of attracting, developing, and retaining world-class talent
• Experience leading a team that manufactures highly technical products
• Experience leading a team that manufactures multiple complex product lines at the same time
• Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail
• Strong collaborator; able to work well cross-functionally in a highly matrixed organization
• Proven ability to execute on multiple priorities simultaneously
• Track record of leading a continuous improvement culture
• Demonstrated use of KPI's to drive organizational priorities
• Solves problems following a data-driven approach
• Skills in budgeting, expense control, and forecasting
• Experience successfully introducing new technologies into manufacturing
• Excellent project management, communication, and change management skills

Education :

Bachelor's degree required (biology, chemistry, engineering or business preferred); MBA or advanced degree is a plus

Why Join Bio-Techne :

• We offer competitive salaries along with extensive medical, vision, and dental plans for you and your family starting on day one!
• We invest in our employees’ financial futures through 401k matching and an employee stock purchase plan.
• We help our employees develop their careers through mentorship, promotional opportunities, training and development, internship programs, and more.
• We offer employee resource groups, volunteer paid time off, employee events, and charity drives to build a culture of caring and belonging.
• We foster a culture of empowerment and innovation, where employees feel valued and encouraged to bring their new ideas to the table.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Bio-Techne is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.