Value Stream Leader

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Value Stream Leader is accountable for leading operational performance across the Devices Value Stream, ensuring delivery against key performance indicators including safety, quality, delivery, productivity and cost.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced manufacturing leader to manage a high-volume, multi-cell production environment, lead and develop teams, optimize resources in response to changing customer demand and drive sustainable improvements through Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement methodologies.

This position reports to the Senior Operations Manager and is part of the Operations team based in Cardiff, UK. This is a fully on-site position.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach and develop a manufacturing team, creating a high-performing culture focused on safety, quality, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee daily manufacturing operations across multiple production cells, ensuring effective resource allocation, production planning and delivery against changing customer demand.
• Take ownership of operational performance across the Devices Value Stream, ensuring delivery against key objectives including safety, quality, delivery, productivity and cost.
• Drive performance management, employee development and training activities, supporting associates and team leaders to achieve their full potential.
• Apply Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence methodologies, including daily management, standard work and root cause analysis, to deliver measurable and sustainable improvements.
• Lead cross-functional problem-solving and improvement initiatives, partnering with Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain and other support functions to improve operational performance.
• Monitor and analyse manufacturing KPIs, identifying opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency, quality and resource utilisation.
• Champion change management initiatives, bringing teams through change while maintaining engagement, collaboration and operational performance.

Who You Are

• Degree qualified in engineering, science or a related discipline, or possess equivalent relevant technical and manufacturing experience.
• Proven manufacturing leadership experience within a high-volume production environment, ideally overseeing multiple production cells or manufacturing lines.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing manufacturing teams of approximately 30 or more employees, with responsibility for operational performance, employee development and performance management.
• Experience planning and redeploying manufacturing resources to respond to changing production requirements and customer demand.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable and sustainable improvements using Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, root cause analysis, standard work and daily management methodologies.
• Experience working within a regulated manufacturing environment where safety, quality and compliance are critical.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple functions and influence at all levels of the organisation.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how operational performance impacts business results.

Desirable Experience

• Experience using quality, EHS or manufacturing systems such as Veeva, Gensuite, Magic or similar platforms.
• Experience working with ERP systems, particularly Oracle.

Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.