Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a company under Danaher, is seeking a Sourcing Project Manager to drive impactful supply chain and procurement initiatives in life sciences and biotechnology. The role involves managing cross-functional projects, supporting cost savings, and delivering new product launches while ensuring continuous improvement in the supply chain.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the assigned sourcing project plans to support cost savings, security of supply, continuous improvement and new tooling qualification efforts
- Create and execute supply chain project plans for commercialization of new products, including establishing project timeline, securing required resources, and managing execution through product launch and handover to Supply Chain/Operations teams
- Develop and implement project metrics/KPIs to measure milestone completion and outcomes; verify project timelines and objectives are met
- Identify and implement best practices, including leveraging AI-enabled tools to increase speed and scale through automated meeting notes and action-item capture, status reporting and dashboard generation, draft project documentation (charters, timelines, RAID logs, toll gate readouts), stakeholder communications, and workflow reminders/follow-ups
- Develop and present cohesive project and toll gate reviews with project teams and leadership
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Finance or Logistics, preferred. MBA, a plus
- 5-7 years' experience with project management
- 4+ years of combined supply chain and/or procurement experience
- Experience managing a high-volume project workload, leading multiple concurrent product / program launches with cross-functional teams to deliver new products or services
- Ability to travel approx. 10-20% with overnight stay from time to time
- Experience with AI-enabled, automation and workflow tools preferred
- 2 years' experience in Plastics, Metals and/or Contract Manufacturing environments
- Manufacturing Environments, Lean Thinking Principles, Operational Finance, Strategic Planning and/or Logistics experience a plus