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Job Description
Vice President of Operations, Healthcare
Lead end-to-end global manufacturing for the Healthcare line of business as a senior leader within the DuPont Operations function. This high-impact role is accountable for comprehensive operational performance across 19 manufacturing sites worldwide (Americas, Asia, and EMEA), ensuring alignment with business strategy and the highest standards of safety, quality, and customer delivery.
Reporting directly to the Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare, you will be a key member of the Global Business Team while maintaining a strong, matrixed relationship with the Senior Vice President, Chief Operations and Engineering. This position offers the opportunity to drive operational excellence, build top-tier talent, and enable significant growth within a vital business sector.
Your Key Responsibilities
Champion DuPont Core Values: Model and drive the company's foundational values: Safety and Health, Respect for People, Highest Ethical Behavior, and Protecting the Planet. Strategic Operations Leadership: Develop and execute an integrated operations plan (supply chain, manufacturing, capital) that enables growth and adapts to dynamic market conditions. Performance Excellence: Utilize metrics to manage a portfolio of assets toward top-quartile performance in EH&S, customer satisfaction, asset reliability, and cost productivity. Operational & Digital Innovation: Sponsor the adoption of Operational Excellence and Lean Digital tools and processes to build a culture of continuous improvement and deliver superior business results. Talent Stewardship: Leverage strategic talent management processes to attract, develop, and retain high-performing teams, fostering a pipeline of future leaders through mentorship, coaching, and development programs. Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with senior leaders across functions to identify improvements, drive alignment between commercial and operations organizations, and influence enterprise-wide strategic direction. Global Accountability: Oversee end-to-end performance including EH&S, compliance, quality, engineering, capital planning and execution, planning/scheduling, external contract manufacturing, and cost productivity.
Your Experience Profile (Key Requirements)
We are seeking a seasoned, impactful leader with:
A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field (an advanced degree is preferred). 20+ years of leadership experience in global operations areas is required. Proven experience leading teams across multiple ISO 13485 certified Medical Device sites; Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) experience is a plus. Strong knowledge of EH&S best practices, including Process Safety Management. Expert application of Operational/Digital Excellence and other industry best practices to drive performance. The ability to travel internationally up to 30% of the time.
Expected Capabilities
Balanced Leadership: Expertise in developing strategy, driving execution, and inspiring global teams. Financial Acumen: Ability to apply financial principles effectively to make informed business decisions. Complexity Management: Manages breadth and complexity, understands the "big picture," and breaks down barriers for others. Influential Communication: Engages, influences, and communicates effectively across multiple functions, layers, and external organizations. Customer Focus: Surfaces and resolves complicated challenges by leveraging relationships across multiple functions. Talent Magnet: Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain talent while building engaged, high-performing teams. Learning Agility: High capacity for change and a bias for decisive decision-making.
Location:
Wilmington, Delaware Edina, Minnesota Salt Lake City, Utah Other U.S. locations considered
If you are a driven operations executive ready to make a significant impact on global healthcare manufacturing, we invite you to apply.
Join our Talent Community to stay connected with us!
DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.
DuPont offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package. To learn more visit the Compensation and Benefits page.
The Pay range for this role is $178,500.00 - $280,500.00 Annual
How Base Pay is Determined:
DuPont has job leveling frameworks that help organize roles based on progressive levels of responsibility, proficiency and qualifications. Each role has an associated pay range (or an established pay rate for some roles) based on the competitive market in each country where we operate. Each individual’s pay is based on a variety of factors, including their role and the associated pay range for that role, their geographic location (i.e., country, state, metropolitan area), as well as their skills, experience, education and certifications, and performance. Seniority level
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VP Operations - Healthcare
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DuPont Join to apply for the
VP Operations - Healthcare
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DuPont Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont. Why Join Us | DuPont Careers
Job Description
Vice President of Operations, Healthcare
Lead end-to-end global manufacturing for the Healthcare line of business as a senior leader within the DuPont Operations function. This high-impact role is accountable for comprehensive operational performance across 19 manufacturing sites worldwide (Americas, Asia, and EMEA), ensuring alignment with business strategy and the highest standards of safety, quality, and customer delivery.
Reporting directly to the Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare, you will be a key member of the Global Business Team while maintaining a strong, matrixed relationship with the Senior Vice President, Chief Operations and Engineering. This position offers the opportunity to drive operational excellence, build top-tier talent, and enable significant growth within a vital business sector.
Your Key Responsibilities
Champion DuPont Core Values: Model and drive the company's foundational values: Safety and Health, Respect for People, Highest Ethical Behavior, and Protecting the Planet. Strategic Operations Leadership: Develop and execute an integrated operations plan (supply chain, manufacturing, capital) that enables growth and adapts to dynamic market conditions. Performance Excellence: Utilize metrics to manage a portfolio of assets toward top-quartile performance in EH&S, customer satisfaction, asset reliability, and cost productivity. Operational & Digital Innovation: Sponsor the adoption of Operational Excellence and Lean Digital tools and processes to build a culture of continuous improvement and deliver superior business results. Talent Stewardship: Leverage strategic talent management processes to attract, develop, and retain high-performing teams, fostering a pipeline of future leaders through mentorship, coaching, and development programs. Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with senior leaders across functions to identify improvements, drive alignment between commercial and operations organizations, and influence enterprise-wide strategic direction. Global Accountability: Oversee end-to-end performance including EH&S, compliance, quality, engineering, capital planning and execution, planning/scheduling, external contract manufacturing, and cost productivity.
Your Experience Profile (Key Requirements)
We are seeking a seasoned, impactful leader with:
A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field (an advanced degree is preferred). 20+ years of leadership experience in global operations areas is required. Proven experience leading teams across multiple ISO 13485 certified Medical Device sites; Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) experience is a plus. Strong knowledge of EH&S best practices, including Process Safety Management. Expert application of Operational/Digital Excellence and other industry best practices to drive performance. The ability to travel internationally up to 30% of the time.
Expected Capabilities
Balanced Leadership: Expertise in developing strategy, driving execution, and inspiring global teams. Financial Acumen: Ability to apply financial principles effectively to make informed business decisions. Complexity Management: Manages breadth and complexity, understands the "big picture," and breaks down barriers for others. Influential Communication: Engages, influences, and communicates effectively across multiple functions, layers, and external organizations. Customer Focus: Surfaces and resolves complicated challenges by leveraging relationships across multiple functions. Talent Magnet: Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain talent while building engaged, high-performing teams. Learning Agility: High capacity for change and a bias for decisive decision-making.
Location:
Wilmington, Delaware Edina, Minnesota Salt Lake City, Utah Other U.S. locations considered
If you are a driven operations executive ready to make a significant impact on global healthcare manufacturing, we invite you to apply.
Join our Talent Community to stay connected with us!
DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.
DuPont offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package. To learn more visit the Compensation and Benefits page.
The Pay range for this role is $178,500.00 - $280,500.00 Annual
How Base Pay is Determined:
DuPont has job leveling frameworks that help organize roles based on progressive levels of responsibility, proficiency and qualifications. Each role has an associated pay range (or an established pay rate for some roles) based on the competitive market in each country where we operate. Each individual’s pay is based on a variety of factors, including their role and the associated pay range for that role, their geographic location (i.e., country, state, metropolitan area), as well as their skills, experience, education and certifications, and performance. Seniority level
Seniority level Not Applicable Employment type
Employment type Full-time Job function
Job function Management and Manufacturing Industries Biotechnology Research, Chemical Manufacturing, and Farming Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at DuPont by 2x Get notified about new Vice President Operations jobs in
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