Vice President & General Manager, Global Laboratory Services Business & Operations

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Position Summary:

Reporting to the SVP and Business Leader for Illumina’s emerging growth businesses, the VP and General Manager, Global Laboratory Services Business & Operations will oversee a global fully cross-functional team, providing visionary business-leadership to expand Illumina’s laboratory services offerings for customers, third parties, and other internal businesses and stakeholders.  While always striving to serve the interests and mission of Illumina, ultimately expanding & accelerating the adoption and utilization across Illumina’s entire portfolio of solutions and offerings.   

Illumina is looking for a bold strategic business & laboratory operations leader to run all aspects of the Illumina’s 3rd-party services offerings across the entire Illumina and partner ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity within Illumina with the exciting mission to strategically build a portfolio of service offerings across the entire ecosystem, including but not limited to CLIA Certified clinical offerings as well as large-scale, low-cost sequencing- and array-based services to support large-scale national genome initiatives, large-scale data generation services, in addition to differentiated & competitive genome factory service offerings.  This strategic operation will provide a complete and diverse portfolio of service offering for customers and stakeholders externally and internally. 

The VP and General Manager, Global Laboratory Services Business & Operations will oversee a portfolio market differentiated and competitive 3rd-party service offerings across all Illumina served markets and customers. Reporting to an Executive Leadership Team member, the General Manager will oversee strategy development, transformation and disciplined operational execution across functions, managing research, technology and product development, product management, quality, medical, and collaborating with global and regional commercial, operations, and regulatory affairs and compliance teams.

A deep understanding of life sciences, genomic, and proteomic service offerings and operations, technology trends and a commitment to creativity are essential for leading this strategic transformation, organization, and business opportunity to deliver a differentiated & competitive portfolio of 3rd-party services, internally and externally.

Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs and other related duties may be assigned.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead a Unified Global Microarray Portfolio and Organizational Competencies

• Develop and execute a multi-year global growth & business strategy with regional/local operating plans to expand Illumina’s 3rd-party service offerings, focused on delivering a complete portfolio of solutions across Illumina’s served markets. 

• Lead the cross-functional team with shared accountability for developing and delivering successful strategic transformation that translates into effective operational plans which deliver expected business results.

• Lead the cross-functional and enterprise-wide team to develop and execute a multi-year innovative roadmap of laboratory service offerings.  

• Collaborate closely with global & regional commercial & operations teams in support of the strategic transformation and operational execution.

• Lead the organization to ensure development, delivery, market and successful sale of a complete portfolio of laboratory service solutions at scale while ensuring compliance with global regulatory & compliance needs.  

• Ensure seamless collaboration across global and regional teams to represent Illumina’s full portfolio of laboratory service solutions to the market and with internal stakeholder businesses and organizations.

Lead a Unified Organization

• Build an enduring organizational capability and competence to develop and deliver a competitively differentiated portfolio of 3rd-party service offerings at scale and in support of accelerating adoption and utilization of Illumina