Business Unit Leader
A worldwide provider of biological and in vitro products to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies is currently seeking a Business Unit Leader in the NY area to join their growing organization. Our organization specializes in control and disease state matrices which are used in drug discovery, compound development, clinical and research diagnostics enabling biomedical researchers to better understand the pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism of newly discovered compounds and the effects on disease processes.
The Business Unit Leader will be responsible for identifying opportunities and delivering efficiency gains to the business to secure the foundation for revenue and EBITDA growth. The Business Unit Leader must be able to learn the business and seamlessly integrate with the entire team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage Operations, Laboratory, Customer Service, Shipping and IT Department to improve scalability and efficiency of all internal processes:
- Reduce laboratory expense ratios continuously as the business grows.
- Identify and benchmark current performance, targeting the biggest opportunities to improve overall order flow across critical metrics with the goal of internal operations assisting the maximization of EBITDA and customer satisfaction.
- Provide a metrically and technologically-driven foundation to evaluate and manage the operational efficiency of the business.
- Maintain efficient relationship of external vendors, directs the production of custom and special orders.
- Meets marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Determines annual and gross-profit plans by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products; analyzing trends and results; establishing pricing strategies; recommending selling prices; monitoring costs, competition, supply, and demand.
- Accomplishes marketing and sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating advertising, merchandising, and trade promotion programs; developing field sales action plans.
- Develop a long-range facility and staffing plan that will allow for smooth growth of the business.
- Continually improves daily operations with regard to safety, cost, quality, productivity, training, and development of personnel.
- Ensures that work is performed according to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Corporate and Departmental Policies, and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
- Continuously and rigorously evaluates departmental processes to determine areas of inefficiency and bottlenecks; works with selected team members to find solutions to these.
- Establishes, monitors and measures performance metrics for all groups within Product Operations
- Manage relationship with business relationship, oversee maintenance required for facility.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor degree in a scientific field, Engineering or Business Management
- 10+ years’ experience in biological production preferably within the pharmaceutical or biotech industries
- Entrepreneurial, self-starter with hands-on approach
- A minimum of 5 years in a supervisory role
- Proficient in PC skills and interpretation of data
- Organizational skills
- Highly motivated and assertive
- Supervisory skills
- Effective written and communication skills
- Experience supervising shipping and inventory control functions
- Demonstrated record of process improvement activities
- ISO, GMP, or GLP experience
- Cell culture experience, lean manufacturing skills, statistical background, ERP experience preferred
To apply: Please email a resume and a thoughtful cover letter with brief salary history to hr@bioreclamationivt.com.
