Senior Lead, Commercial Excellence & Continuous Improvement

About the role

As the Sr Staff PPI Business Systems Specialist for Bioproduction (BPG), you’ll be a hands-on change leader helping teams translate strategy into measurable results—growth, quality, customer satisfaction, cash flow, and productivity—by strengthening how we run the business through Thermo Fisher’s Practical Process Improvement (PPI) Business System. You’ll work across Commercial and Group Functions in a highly matrixed environment, guiding leaders and teams to build sustainable operating mechanisms and a strong continuous improvement culture.

Responsibilities

• Enable adoption of PPI Business System principles and practices across Commercial and Group Functions to achieve business targets.
• Partner with key leaders and collaborators to align improvement work with business priorities.
• Build and run operating cadences that connect strategy, goals, execution, and problem-solving.
• Maintain a validated funnel of improvement activity with a sustainable review mechanism (e.g., pipeline governance, prioritization, tracking).
• Develop and facilitate multi-year strategy deployment using standard tools and routines.
• Lead productivity metrics success: goal setting, opportunity identification, and execution of improvement work.
• Standardize and improve operating mechanisms that increase KPI accountability and speed of action.
• Improve decision-making, critical thinking, and problem-solving capability within teams to increase autonomy and accelerate change.
• Coach leaders, PPI practitioners, and colleagues to increase engagement, empowerment, and consistency in methodology.
• Promote best practice sharing and harmonization across the network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, operations, or business (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years working in PPI Business Systems or a comparable continuous improvement business systems impacting commercial excellence or business performance programs.
• Demonstrated track record implementing continuous improvement in a functionally agnostic environment.
• Proven ability to deliver year-over-year results using data-based problem solving.
• Experience developing, training, and coaching international teams.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity while maintaining attention to detail.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills; able to influence and lead change.
• Six Sigma certification (preferred but not required).

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $125,000.00–$173,100.00. This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retail and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards