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Head of Operations

Job ID
481095
Posted since
09-Oct-2025
Organization
Siemens Healthineers
Field of work
Manufacturing
Company
Siemens Healthcare Limited
Experience level
Experienced Professional
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Office/Site only
Employment type
Permanent
Location(s)
  • Sudbury - Suffolk - United Kingdom
Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.  

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.  

We’re currently seeking a new Head of Operations for our manufacturing business in Sudbury, a global leader in the manufacture and assembly of specialist instrumentation for laboratories and hospitals across the world for Urinalysis, Diabetes, and Blood Gas analytics. 

In this role, you’ll lead, motivate and develop a large team (150+) to deliver the Bloodgas, Urinalysis and Diabetes product portfolios in line with customer requirements, ensuring the highest standards of quality, cost efficiency, and operational performance.

You’ll play a crucial role in supporting all manufacturing areas within supply chain management, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and driving world-class manufacturing standards.

With a strong focus on process optimisation and waste reduction, you’ll be instrumental in maximising profitability and achieving strategic business objectives.  This is an opportunity for a results-driven leader to make a significant impact in a highly demanding and rewarding environment, driving transformational change in respect to operations.

Responsibilities

In this role you’ll: 
• Collaborate with the rest of the Senior Leadership Team to shape strategic plans, identify business opportunities, and develop innovative strategies for long-term success, ensuring alignment with the Operations team
• Build a high-performance culture by promoting ownership, accountability, and adherence to safety (EHS) and operational excellence, ensuring the team’s objectives align with overarching strategic themes
• Ensure workforce planning meets customer demands by optimising labour resource capacity and implementing robust training programmes to support current and future production needs
• Evolve the manufacturing facility in line with long-term strategies and new product requirements, maintaining flexibility and adaptability in operations
• Champion a world-class Quality culture by upholding stringent quality standards, resolving manufacturing challenges, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring compliance with the FDA, ISO and IVDR standards
• Drive a Lean culture, incorporating continuous improvement, and lead initiatives to introduce manufacturing best practice, and then ensure the adoption and application of such practices
• Develop, maintain and utilise scorecards and KPIs to monitor performance, support decision making and drive improvement across all operational areas
• Take overall responsibility for the recruitment, selection and development of direct reports (and their reports) delivering credible and realistic succession plans
 
Qualification, Skills and Experience

As well as being a role model in clear, logical communication at all organizational levels, capable of leading discussions, presenting structured arguments and fostering open dialogue, you’ll be able to demonstrate the following:
• Proven experience in a manufacturing leadership role overseeing large teams
• Structured thinking – you’ll make informed decisions from analysis of complex information, drawing valid conclusions.  Leading and coaching others in constructive debate
• Advanced expertise in Lean principles, Statistical Process Control (SPC), 8D problem-solving, and Value Stream Mapping (VSM), with the ability to implement and facilitate these tools effectively
• Skilled in using standard business and manufacturing software, such as ERP systems (e.g. SAP), project management tools (e.g. MS Project), and workforce modelling platforms
• Proficient in methodologies like Strategic Goal Alignment (Hoshin Kanri) and Agile Visual Management to enhance operational efficiency
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and products across multiple departments, with the ability to connect workflows to operational goals
• Understanding of ISO 9001
• Degree qualified, or equivalent experience in relevant Manufacturing, Operations, Business Management, Supply Chain Management subject
 
Benefits:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Up to 10% matched pension contributions
• 10% Bonus
• Car/Car Allowance
• BUPA Private Medical Cover
• 26 days holiday (with the option to buy/sell up to 5)
• A range of salary sacrifice, tax efficient, benefits including car schemes, global travel insurance and dental plans to name a few
• Share save scheme

Who we are:

We are a team of more than 71,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities. Siemens Healthineers are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer.  If you require any adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know.

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