🚨 We’re Hiring! | Head of Sutures Operations – Germany & Czech Republic 🚨
📍 Neustadt, Germany & Domazlice, Czech Republic
🌐 www.admedsol.com
Who are Advanced Medical Solutions?
AMS is a world-leading independent developer and manufacturer of innovative tissue-healing technology, focused on quality outcomes for patients and value for payers. AMS has a wide range of surgical products including tissue adhesives, sutures, haemostats, internal fixation devices and internal sealants, which it markets under its brands LiquiBand®, RESORBA®, LiquiBandFix8®, LIQUIFIX™, Peters Surgical, Ifabond, Vitalitec and Seal-G®. AMS also supplies wound care dressings such as silver alginates, alginates, and foams through its ActivHeal® brand as well as under white label. Since 2019, the Group has made seven acquisitions: Sealantis, an Israeli developer of innovative internal sealants, Biomatlante, a French developer and manufacturer of surgical biomaterials, Raleigh, a leading UK coater and converter of woundcare and bio-diagnostics materials, AFS Medical, an Austrian specialist surgical business, Connexicon, an Irish tissue adhesives specialist, Syntacoll a German specialist in collagen-based absorbable surgical implants and Peters Surgical a global provider of specialty surgical sutures, mechanical haemostasis and internal cyanoacrylate devices. AMS's products, manufactured in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Thailand, India, the Czech Republic and Israel, are sold globally via a network of multinational or regional partners and distributors, as well as via AMS's own direct sales forces in the UK, Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Benelux, India, the Czech Republic and Russia. The Group has R&D innovation hubs in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Israel. Established in 1991, the Group has more than 1,500 employees. For more information, please see www.admedsol.com
🛠️ About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on, results-driven operations leader to take charge of our Sutures manufacturing operations in Neustadt (Germany) and Domazlice (Czech Republic) – a €13M+ revenue business with responsibility for quality, safety, and service delivery.
As the Head of Sutures Operations, you'll lead site managers and represent the Sutures division on the Operations Senior Leadership Team. This is a high-impact role that demands both strategic oversight and day-to-day problem-solving.
What will this role involve?
* Represents Sutures operations on the Operations Senior Leadership team, working closely with the Group functions driving standardisation and improvement.
* Responsible for managing all aspects of the end-to-end production process across the Sutures operation, and ensuring performance delivery against targets encompassing Financial, Safety, Quality and Customer Service.
* Reducing waste in all its forms, including, but not limited to, time, material and energy consumption.
* To develop and manage departmental budgets and product standards, including accountability for performance, reporting and meeting customer service levels.
* Assuring an optimized manufacturing operation that complies with all relevant quality and other regulatory standards. Promoting effective corrective and preventative actions to eliminate gaps.
* Participating effectively in resource planning for the manufacturing sites, including active participation in S&OP processes
* Providing leadership in EHS through regular discussions with safety teams, risk assessments and workplace inspections.
* Building collaborative relationships with principal contacts (especially peer group) and relevant external organisations. Ensuring that the team is committed to high performance, ethical behaviour and good employee relations.
* Safeguarding all relevant certifications and delivering right first time quality product.
* Ensuring alignment with the Company Vision and Values within the Operations function.
* Leading and coaching the engineering functions to ensure process reliability while continuously improving processes and delivering cost reduction.
* Ensuring the operations team is supporting the product development process to deliver new product launches.
* Guide, coach and mentor employees in the execution of their roles and supporting them with their personal development.
* Jobholder will have budget setting and overall cost centre responsibility for all relevant Operations cost centres.
* Leads by example and follow AMS’s Care, Fair, Dare values.
What we're looking for?
* German and English is a must
* Proven success in a complex manufacturing environment overseeing multiple sites, suture knowledge a plus
* Experience in leading manufacturing in a regulated industry preferably medical device area.
* Expert knowledge of continuous improvement techniques.
* Strong leadership qualities and motivational skills.
* Relevant Degree (or equivalent) or higher education with appropriate experience.
* 7 years+ of high level management within a complex operations and manufacturing environment in a regulated industry environment.
* Experience in deployment of continuous improvement methodologies.
* Excellent teambuilding, decision making and influencing skills.
* Sound experience and understanding of project management best practice.
* Ability to respond flexibly to change.
* Ability to work to tight deadlines.
* The role holder is expected to travel between sites as required
AMS provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants. We highly value and encourage diversity across our workforce meaning that no one will be discriminated against because of their gender, race, age, nationality, disability, or any other protected characteristic as prohibited by law.