Senior Director, Operations

Additional Location(s): US-RI-Coventry

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

 

The Senior Director, Operations will serve as a leader for operations, overseeing all aspects of sterilization processes, site P&L as well as Environmental Health & Safety.  This role is pivotal in ensuring that the sterilization process meets the standards for safety, sterility, cost and regulatory compliance. The incumbent will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Manufacturing sites, Quality Assurance, Sterility Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Supply Chain, to best-in-class sterilization and EH&S processes.

This role has full responsibility for Production, Engineering and Operations for Boston Scientific in Coventry, RI. 

 

Your responsibilities include:

 

• Develop, deploy and implement a long-term site strategy to provide vision and direction for the future to achieve key organizational and functional objectives.
• Leverage the company delivering excellence essentials processes and tools to operationalize annual strategy.
• Strong operational focus by leading and driving the organization to continuous improvements in overall performance based on established benchmarks.
• Remove roadblocks hindering achievement of operational objectives and promote ideas and solutions to improve the agility of the organization.
• Direct the operation of the facility to ensure compliance with established SOP’s and GMP guidelines.
• Build and cultivate strong and sustaining partnerships with R&D other corporate functions such as Planning and Sterility Assurance.
• Understand and proactively comply with current and evolving Environmental and Personnel Safety Regulations.
• Committed and innovatived in developing employees, driving succession planning and key development programs for direct reports and throughout the organization.
• In-depth business knowledge and proficient in product and sterilization process.
• Provide guidance and training to staff, motivate individuals to achieve results, and assist staff in attaining performance/training objectives and career goals.
• Determine appropriate organizational design to achieve operational goals as well as employee engagement.
• Drive projects of large magnitude and scope.
• Demonstrate a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality.
• Ensure that all direct reports are aware of their commitment to patient safety and product quality.
• Identify and champion improvement and functional excellence initiatives.
• Develop and ensure budgets and schedules meet plan.
• Assures that appropriate resources (personnel, tools, etc.) are maintained to assure Quality System compliance and adherence to the BSC Quality Policy.
• Establish and promote a work environment that supports the Quality Policy and Quality System.

 

Visa Sponsorship:

• Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

 

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business
• 10+ years of experience of site or business unit leadership including P&L responsibilities
• Experience as an Operations Director
• Proven track record of leadership in a global, matrixed organization
• Commitment to fostering a culture of quality, safety, and continuous improvement
• Strong business acumen and the ability to align technical expertise with organizational objectives

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree
• Sterilization site experience

 

 

 

Requisition ID: 610448 

Minimum Salary: $ 172500 

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