Senior Manager, Quality Laboratory Value Stream

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. 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.

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As the Senior Manager, Quality Laboratory Value Stream, you will collaborate closely with cross‑functional leaders and associates to ensure effective identification, execution, monitoring, and continuous improvement of Quality Laboratory and Batch Review operations, aligned with regulatory requirements, organizational objectives, and customer expectations.

This position reports to the Senior Manager, Site Quality and leads the Quality Control organization at the Pensacola, Florida site. This is an on‑site role. At Cytiva, our vision is to advance future therapeutics from discovery to delivery.

• Quality Leadership & Compliance:
  Lead the Pensacola Quality Control organization, ensuring raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods meet clearly defined, compliant acceptance and rejection criteria while delivering on safety, quality, cost, and on‑time performance expectations.
• Quality Management System (QMS):
  Own and strengthen the effective application of the Cytiva QMS, ensuring procedures, records, and digital systems enable compliant operations, audit readiness, and continuous improvement through CAPA, risk‑based thinking, and Danaher Business System (DBS) methodologies.
• Strategic Partnership & Advocacy:
  Partner with site and global leadership to drive process improvements, lead change management activities, advocate for laboratory‑specific needs, and ensure quality considerations are fully integrated into product development, technology transfer, and operational changes.
• Team Development & Performance:
  Build, lead, and sustain a high‑performing laboratory organization by fostering a culture of engagement, accountability, psychological and physical safety, capability development, and continuous improvement.
• Operational Excellence:
  Optimize laboratory flow and capacity by managing staffing and shift coverage, improving lead times, ensuring equipment qualification and maintenance, establishing back‑ups for critical instrumentation and consumables, and owning laboratory capital expenditure planning and budget management.
• Reporting, Risk & Representation:
  Lead laboratory investigations, define and monitor key performance indicators, assess and mitigate operational and compliance risks, and represent the Pensacola laboratory in global best‑practice forums, ensuring learnings are captured and applied to strengthen future design and reliability outcomes.

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Science or a related field, or equivalent experience (10+ years) within a regulated manufacturing or laboratory environment.
• Bring 7+ years of experience in Laboratory Operations, Quality, or Manufacturing within Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Biopharma, or other FDA/EPA‑regulated industries.
• Have 5+ years of people leadership experience, including direct management of laboratory or manufacturing teams.
• Regulatory & Quality Expertise:
  Demonstrate strong knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 13485, FDA regulations, cGMPs CFR requirements, and core quality processes such as validation, CAPA, audits, complaint handling, and…