VP Operations - Healthcare

DuPont de Nemours Inc.•Wilmington, DE

44d

About The Position

Vice President of Operations, Healthcare Lead end-to-end global manufacturing for the Healthcare line of business as a senior leader within the DuPont Operations function. This high-impact role is accountable for comprehensive operational performance across 19 manufacturing sites worldwide (Americas, Asia, and EMEA), ensuring alignment with business strategy and the highest standards of safety, quality, and customer delivery. Reporting directly to the Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare, you will be a key member of the Global Business Team while maintaining a strong, matrixed relationship with the Senior Vice President, Chief Operations and Engineering. This position offers the opportunity to drive operational excellence, build top-tier talent, and enable significant growth within a vital business sector.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field (an advanced degree is preferred).
20+ years of leadership experience in global operations areas is required.
Proven experience leading teams across multiple ISO 13485 certified Medical Device sites; Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) experience is a plus.
Strong knowledge of EH&S best practices, including Process Safety Management.
Expert application of Operational/Digital Excellence and other industry best practices to drive performance.
The ability to travel internationally up to 30% of the time.
Balanced Leadership: Expertise in developing strategy, driving execution, and inspiring global teams.
Financial Acumen: Ability to apply financial principles effectively to make informed business decisions.
Complexity Management: Manages breadth and complexity, understands the "big picture," and breaks down barriers for others.
Influential Communication: Engages, influences, and communicates effectively across multiple functions, layers, and external organizations.
Customer Focus: Surfaces and resolves complicated challenges by leveraging relationships across multiple functions.
Talent Magnet: Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain talent while building engaged, high-performing teams.
Learning Agility: High capacity for change and a bias for decisive decision-making.

Responsibilities

Champion DuPont Core Values: Model and drive the company's foundational values: Safety and Health, Respect for People, Highest Ethical Behavior, and Protecting the Planet.
Strategic Operations Leadership: Develop and execute an integrated operations plan (supply chain, manufacturing, capital) that enables growth and adapts to dynamic market conditions.
Performance Excellence: Utilize metrics to manage a portfolio of assets toward top-quartile performance in EH&S, customer satisfaction, asset reliability, and cost productivity.
Operational & Digital Innovation: Sponsor the adoption of Operational Excellence and Lean Digital tools and processes to build a culture of continuous improvement and deliver superior business results.
Talent Stewardship: Leverage strategic talent management processes to attract, develop, and retain high-performing teams, fostering a pipeline of future leaders through mentorship, coaching, and development programs.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with senior leaders across functions to identify improvements, drive alignment between commercial and operations organizations, and influence enterprise-wide strategic direction.
Global Accountability: Oversee end-to-end performance including EH&S, compliance, quality, engineering, capital planning and execution, planning/scheduling, external contract manufacturing, and cost productivity.