Senior Manager, Quality Laboratory Value Stream

What You Will Do

• Quality Leadership & Compliance: Lead the Pensacola Quality Control organization, ensuring raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods meet clearly defined, compliant acceptance and rejection criteria while delivering on safety, quality, cost, and on-time performance expectations.
• Quality Management System (QMS): Own and strengthen the effective application of the Cytiva QMS, ensuring procedures, records, and digital systems enable compliant operations, audit readiness, and continuous improvement through CAPA, risk-based thinking, and Danaher Business System (DBS) methodologies.
• Strategic Partnership & Advocacy: Partner with site and global leadership to drive process improvements, lead change management activities, advocate for laboratory-specific needs, and ensure quality considerations are fully integrated into product development, technology transfer, and operational changes.
• Team Development & Performance: Build, lead, and sustain a high-performing laboratory organization by fostering a culture of engagement, accountability, psychological and physical safety, capability development, and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence: Optimize laboratory flow and capacity by managing staffing and shift coverage, improving lead times, ensuring equipment qualification and maintenance, establishing back-ups for critical instrumentation and consumables, and owning laboratory capital expenditure planning and budget management.
• Reporting, Risk & Representation: Lead laboratory investigations, define and monitor key performance indicators, assess and mitigate operational and compliance risks, and represent the Pensacola laboratory in global best-practice forums, ensuring learnings are captured and applied to strengthen future design and reliability outcomes.

Who You Are

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Science or a related field, or equivalent experience (10+ years) within a regulated manufacturing or laboratory environment.
• Bring 7+ years of experience in Laboratory Operations, Quality, or Manufacturing within Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Biopharma, or other FDA/EPA-regulated industries.
• Have 5+ years of people leadership experience, including direct management of laboratory or manufacturing teams.
• Regulatory & Quality Expertise: Demonstrate strong knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 13485, FDA regulations, cGMPs CFR requirements, and core quality processes such as validation, CAPA, audits, complaint handling, and risk management; experience with ISO 14644 and/or ISO 17025 is preferred.
• Analytical & Process Capability: Apply quality statistics, Lean and Six Sigma tools, SPC, Gage R&R, and root cause analysis to drive data-based decisions and optimize laboratory resources.
• Leadership & Communication: Proven ability to coach and mentor leaders, manage performance, plan succession, and communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Strategic & Operational Mindset: Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to balance strategic priorities, assess opportunity cost, and drive disciplined execution with a passion for making a measurable impact.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical / Environment Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 15% to other Cytiva manufacturing locations domestically and internationally, as required.
• Ability to work in a laboratory and manufacturing environment, including accessing equipment 5–6 feet off the ground and lifting or moving parcels weighing 20–35 lbs.

It Would Be a Plus If You Also Possess Previous Experience In

• Analytical chemistry and/or microbiology in an ISO 17025-accredited laboratory environment.
• Contamination control, sterilization, sanitation, or E-beam processes, including ISO 14644 cleanroom operations.
• Enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle, Veeva, or Magic, supporting laboratory or quality operations.