Division Director, Pharmaceuticals - Element Materials Technology

Element has an opportunity for a Divisional Director within our Life Sciences Business Unit to oversee various Pharmaceutical testing sites across the US and Canada. This position is responsible and accountable for all Element business results within their area of influence. This position reports to the Vice President for the Business Unit and is responsible for delivering and growing roughly $100m of business across approximately six (6) laboratories in the US and Canada.

This is a Senior Leadership role with full P/L responsibility and accountability for executing on customer delivery, leadership, operations, innovation, and strategy that will drive business growth and profitability in line with strategic goals. There is a high degree of focus for the incumbent on tactical direction and support by providing consistent direction to General Managers and modeling a cohesive partnership with the sales organization. This position requires extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry spanning accountability for acquisitions, operations, quality, strategic planning, financial management, customer relations, and high-level commercial contact development

Responsibilities:

• Assure the safety of all colleagues and customers.
• Own the annual operational plan commitments including revenues, profit, productivity, quality, customer delivery, staffing, and other operational performance areas with a strong focus on accurate and timely forecasting
• Establish and lead a customer centric approach, in close partnership with the sales team, and measure progress towards relevant goals.
• Role model a strong commercial partnership and demonstrate how that partnership and shared actions drive budgeted growth
• Provide leadership to assigned teams and demonstrate strong, strategic partnerships with Safety and Health, Quality, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, and Operational Excellence teams
• Execute strategic and organizational goals as mutually defined with Element leadership team by translating corporate initiatives and plans into formal actions plans for the area of influence
• Drive continuous improvement with demonstrated results around an incident free and safe working environment for colleagues, high first-time right performance, and excellent internal and external audit performance
• Bring order, structure, and accountability through regular team meetings.
• Develop and foster a positive culture at relevant laboratories, bringing Element’s mission to life and leading in accordance with Element’s values
• Collaborate with management teams to foster a supportive and inclusive culture.
• Provide strong personal leadership, mentorship, and developmental opportunities for assigned locations and colleagues
• Attend and speak at industry and association meetings, identifying opportunities for lab colleagues to present papers, network, and share industry knowledge as thought leaders and trusted partners in the industry
• Other duties as assigned to support the broader business and foster a collaborate team environment.

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business or a Life Sciences area, Master’s degree preferred
• 15 + years of leadership experience within the pharmaceutical industry
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex organizations in a highly acquisitive environment across multiple sites
• Extensive experience spanning accountability for acquisitions, operations, quality, strategic planning, financial management, customer relations, and high-level commercial contact development
• Strong financial acumen and proven experience with budgeting and regular forecasting
• Able to motivate by communicating vision and strategy and creating a shared purpose
• A record of innovation and a continuous process improvement attitude
• Strong consensus building skills, leads and supports change, takes appropriate chances
• Achieves business results, by taking action, achieving quality and focusing on the future
• Demonstrates integrity and ethics; sets a personal example
• Services customers by meeting their needs and focusing on customer satisfaction
• A strong training focus that results in successfully developing and motivating people
• Builds and develops partnerships through open lines of communication; values diversity
• Experience in customer centric service businesses
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time in the US and Canada

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.