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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in Operations and/or Operations Excellence
• 5+ years in senior leadership roles (Exec Dir/VP or above)
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple operational functions and building high-performing teams.
• Experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, inventory management, logistics, and supply-chain optimization.
• Demonstrated success leading Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical and quantitative capabilities, with experience using data to drive operational decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience managing budgets, costs, working capital, and business cases.
• Excellent communication, influencing, negotiation, and executive leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a genetics, molecular diagnostics, clinical laboratory, biotechnology, healthcare, or other highly regulated environment.
• Experience managing biological specimens or other time- and quality-sensitive materials.
• Experience with laboratory kit assembly, fulfillment, or collection-kit operations.
• Experience implementing or scaling Operations Analytics/business intelligence functions.
• Lean Six Sigma certification or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Advanced degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the end-to-end supply chain supporting Baylor Genetics.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive supply chain strategy aligned with business growth, testing volumes, customer requirements, quality standards, and financial objectives.
• Lead demand planning, inventory management, materials planning, replenishment, forecasting, and supply availability.
• Establish appropriate inventory strategies, safety-stock levels, reorder points, and service-level targets for critical materials and supplies.
• Ensure continuity of supply for critical laboratory reagents, consumables, collection materials, packaging, and other operational requirements.
• Develop supply-chain risk management strategies, including dual sourcing, supplier resilience, contingency planning, and critical-material risk assessments.
• Optimize working capital while maintaining appropriate service levels and operational resiliency.
• Establish meaningful supply-chain KPIs and performance-management routines.
• Lead strategic procurement activities across laboratory, operational, technology, and indirect spend categories as appropriate.
• Develop and execute category strategies that balance cost, quality, availability, innovation, risk, and supplier performance.
• Negotiate and manage strategic supplier agreements, pricing, terms, service levels, and contractual commitments.
• Develop strong strategic partnerships with key suppliers and establish formal supplier-performance management processes.
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, standardization, consolidation, and value creation.
• Partner closely with Finance, Legal, Quality, Laboratory Operations, R&D, and other stakeholders on major sourcing and contracting initiatives.
• Establish appropriate controls and governance for purchasing and supplier management.
• Lead the strategy and performance of inbound and outbound logistics supporting specimen collection, transportation, testing, and reporting.
• Optimize the end-to-end movement of patient specimens from collection through receipt, accessioning, testing, storage, and disposition.
• Ensure specimens are transported reliably, efficiently, and in accordance with applicable regulatory, quality, and customer requirements.
• Develop strategies to improve specimen turnaround time, transport reliability, specimen integrity, and cost per specimen.
• Establish performance standards and metrics for courier, transportation, shipping, and logistics partners.
• Partner with Laboratory Operations, Client Services, Quality, and Commercial teams to resolve specimen-management issues and improve customer experience.
• Develop scalable logistics capabilities to support growth in testing volumes and geographic expansion.
• Provide strategic leadership for the design, planning, and execution of kit assembly and fulfillment operations.
• Ensure collection kits are produced accurately, efficiently, and in alignment with forecasted demand.
• Optimize kit configurations, materials, labor, inventory levels, production capacity, and fulfillment processes.
• Establish appropriate production planning and capacity-management processes.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement across kitting operations.
• Partner with Product Development, Marketing, Commercial, Laboratory Operations, Quality, and Regulatory teams on new and revised kit designs.
• Develop scalable kitting capabilities capable of supporting significant changes in volume, product mix, and customer requirements.
• Establish and lead an enterprise-wide Lean Continuous Improvement program within Operations.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement focused on eliminating waste, improving flow, reducing variation, increasing productivity, and enhancing the customer and employee experience.
• Identify and prioritize high-impact operational improvement opportunities across supply chain, logistics, sample management, kitting, and other operational functions.
• Apply Lean methodologies and structured problem-solving approaches such as value-stream mapping, root-cause analysis, Kaizen, standard work, visual management, and process control.
• Build internal capability by coaching leaders and teams in Lean principles and continuous-improvement methodologies.
• Establish a disciplined approach to tracking improvement initiatives, benefits realization, and sustained results.
• Establish and lead a centralized Operations Analytics function.
• Develop a comprehensive Operations performance-management framework that translates business objectives into actionable KPIs.
• Build dashboards and analytical tools that provide visibility into supply chain, logistics, specimen volumes, inventory, kit production, productivity, costs, service levels, and operational performance.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities to identify trends, anticipate constraints, and support proactive decision-making.
• Establish a consistent source of truth for operational data and performance reporting.
• Partner with Finance, IT/Data, Laboratory Operations, Commercial, and other functions to integrate operational data and improve analytical capabilities.
• Use data to identify opportunities for cost reduction, capacity optimization, process improvement, and improved customer service.
• Develop regular operating reviews and management routines that use data to drive accountability and action.
• Ensure analytics efforts are focused on business outcomes rather than reporting for reporting's sake.
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing organization across supply chain, logistics, materials management, procurement, kitting, operational excellence, and analytics.
• Establish clear organizational structures, roles, accountabilities, goals, and performance expectations.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-caliber operational talent.
• Create a culture characterized by accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, customer focus, and disciplined execution.
• Serve as a strategic partner to the executive leadership team and other functional leaders.
• Translate enterprise strategy into clear operational priorities and measurable execution plans.
• Lead through influence across a highly cross-functional, matrixed organization.