Manager, VCO

When joining PerkinElmer, you select an experienced and trusted leader in scientific solutions, with the support of a global service network and distribution centers, providing the right solution, at the right time, to meet critical customer needs.  With over an 80+ year legacy of advancing science and a mission of innovating for a healthier world, our dedicated team collaborates closely with commercial, government, academic and healthcare customers to deliver our broad portfolio of analytical solutions, and OneSource services.

The Company

PerkinElmer is a global analytical services and solutions provider with offerings including the leading OneSource Field and Laboratory services business that serve the biopharma, food, environmental, safety and applied end markets to accelerate scientific outcomes. Since 1937, PerkinElmer has served as a trusted partner in laboratory analysis and management and today complements its service offerings with a broad portfolio of atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, and chromatography instruments, consumables, and reagents. With a dedicated team of more than 5,000 team members, the Company serves customers in more than 35 countries. Additional information is available at www.perkinelmer.com

Purpose

PerkinElmer is seeking a talented team member to join our Value Creation Office (VCO) as a Manager. In that role, you will support or lead one or several workstreams in the VCO that encompass major operational improvement and growth initiatives in a specific business or functional area that improve efficiency, increase revenue, and reduce costs. The role will require a self-propelled entrepreneur with a laser-like execution focus who can drive the planning and implementation of improvements from start to finish and support the organization with bringing them over the finish line with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data to understand root causes of performance below full potential, benchmark efficiency and effectiveness, and set improvement targets.
• Combine first principles problem solving with functional knowledge and expertise to design solutions and implement new processes, tools, and ways of working to achieve target business outcomes.
• Frame up strategic and operational decisions for senior company leadership in partnership with the relevant stakeholders.
• Develop workplans that represent shortest path to successful outcomes while accounting for and mitigating constraints.
• Collaborate effectively with the rest of the organization to identify and involve necessary resources in driving the improvements.
• Create and own tracking and reporting mechanisms within VCO governance structure to monitor initiative value delivery and take corrective actions.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business leaders in relevant areas, serving as a trusted partner to help them deliver on performance targets and ambitious growth objectives.
• Contribute to VCO team’s professional development by providing coaching, mentorship, and creating step-up opportunities for other team members.
• Identify new value creation opportunities across the business that may fit in the Value Creation Office framework, integrate them into new or existing workstreams, and drive execution.
• Contribute to M&A execution by supporting deal team and company leadership in driving due diligence, deal execution and post-merger integration of acquired companies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics or Finance (or a related field), or Engineering (with subsequent strong business experience).
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience, including at least two to four years of driving operational value creation initiatives with demonstrated bottom line impact.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.

Preferred Characteristics

• Experience driving enterprise-wide transformations or functional operational improvement programs as a leader with a prominent consulting firm preferred.
• Hands-on experience driving value across one or more of the following areas: sales & marketing, product management, strategic marketing, manufacturing operations, service operations, R&D, sourcing and procurement, support functions, or other business areas.
• Experience in mid-cap ($1 to $5 billion revenue) company space is a plus, as is experience with analytical and scientific instruments, and/or laboratory environments and solutions.
• Ability to design, structure and deliver performance improvement initiatives with strong quantified effect on operational KPIs and verified bottom line impact.
• Distinctive record of managerial and professional achievement and impact.
• High ownership, strong motivation, low ego, no-nonsense attitude; ability to balance multiple competing priorities and projects.
• Excellent prioritization skills and "nose for value" that focuses efforts on the highest ROI work.
• Experience working in a PE-owned company as an employee or serving PE-owned companies as a consultant on value creation programs preferred.
• Exposure to international cultures and ability to navigate and find common ground with different working styles.

PerkinElmer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.