Thermo Fisher Scientific

Senior Staff PPI Business Systems Specialist

Thermo Fisher Scientific

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: California • Massachusetts • United States

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Salary

💰 $125,000 - $173,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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
  • Lead productivity metrics success: goal setting, opportunity identification, and execution of improvement work
  • 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
  • Build and run operating cadences that connect strategy, goals, execution, and problem-solving
  • Develop and reinforce the leadership culture through PPI methods such as critical metrics leadership, Tiered Daily Management systems, and Gemba walks with structured problem-solving
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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 system
  • 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
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in a heavily matrixed organization
  • 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)
Benefits
  • 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
  • Retirement 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PPI Business Systemcontinuous improvementdata-based problem solvingKPI accountabilitystrategy deploymentoperating mechanismsmetrics successopportunity identificationproblem-solvingcritical thinking
Soft Skills
collaborationcoachingcommunicationinfluenceleadershipengagementempowermentattention to detailexecutive presenceadaptability
Certifications
Six Sigma certification