Sr Director, Sustaining Center and Capacity Planning

Location:

Ogden, Utah (Not a remote role)

Purpose and Scope: The Head of Sustaining Center for Value Stream Dialyzer and Capacity Planning (VSD) for In-Center holds two critical global leadership mandates:

• Lead Sustaining Engineering and post-launch product lifecycle management for the €1.2B Value Stream Dialyzers business
• Lead integrated capacity planning and capacity strategy for the €4B In-Center business unit

For VSD, the position protects business continuity, product compliance, customer supply, manufacturing performance, and lifecycle competitiveness across the global Dialyzer portfolio.

For In-Center, the position establishes the global capacity-planning framework and translates commercial demand, portfolio strategy, regional growth, and technology roadmaps into capacity scenarios, investment priorities, and manufacturing-network recommendations.

The position reports to the SVP, Value Stream Dialyzers Leader
, serves as a member of the VSD Leadership Team
, and operates with an enterprise-wide mandate across In-Center.

• Protect €1.2B in annual VSD revenue by safeguarding product availability, regulatory compliance, manufacturing continuity, and post-launch performance.
• Lead capacity planning for the €4B In-Center business
  , ensuring timely capacity availability to support growth, portfolio transitions, and customer demand.
• Own the global Dialyzer portfolio after launch
  , including reliability, compliance, manufacturability, supply resilience, cost competitiveness, and lifecycle value.
• Define and authorize VSD sustaining priorities
  , including critical product, process, material, supplier, quality, and manufacturing changes.
• Develop and recommend In-Center capacity assumptions and scenarios and major capacity, technology, and manufacturing-network investments.
• Authorize business-continuity actions when supply, quality, regulatory, supplier, or manufacturing risks threaten business performance.
• Drive structural productivity and cost improvement across the established Dialyzer portfolio and manufacturing network.
• Build and lead global organizations with strong engineering, analytical, financial, and strategic planning capabilities.

VSD Sustaining Engineering and Lifecycle Leadership

• Define, approve, and lead the global Sustaining Engineering strategy for Value Stream Dialyzers.
• Hold executive accountability for the performance and continuity of the Dialyzer portfolio following commercial launch.
• Authorize and prioritize product, process, material, supplier, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing changes based on patient, business, compliance, and supply impact.
• Lead the transition of newly launched products into stable, scalable, and cost-effective lifecycle management.
• Approve lifecycle roadmaps and recommendations for product extension, redesign, transfer, rationalization, hold, or discontinuation.
• Anticipate and mitigate lifecycle risks, including obsolescence, material discontinuation, supplier dependency, quality trends, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Serve as the executive escalation and decision authority for critical sustaining issues within the position’s mandate.

VSD Business Continuity and Competitiveness

• Authorize cross-functional response programs where supplier, material, quality, regulatory, capacity, or manufacturing risks threaten customer supply.
• Approve mitigation priorities, contingency measures, and resource deployment within delegated authority.
• Establish governance and executive visibility for material business-continuity risks.
• Define and approve the VSD productivity and lifecycle competitiveness roadmap.
• Lead initiatives in automation, yield improvement, process optimization, design-to-value, material cost reduction,…