Sourcing Project Manager

Bring more to life.

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

At Phenomenex, 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.

Phenomenex isn’t your typical scientific company. Founded nearly 40 years ago, Phenomenex is a global technology leader committed to developing novel analytical chemistry solutions that solve the separation and purification challenges of researchers, advancing the future of scientific analysis and investigation, ensuring the quality of essentials like your food, water, shampoo, and even cold medication. Be part of our global success and together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

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The Sourcing Project Manager is responsible for driving cross-functional project plans that support cost savings, strengthen security of supply, deliver new product innovation and drive continuous improvement, including new tooling qualifications.

This position reports to Sr. Manager, Strategic Sourcing and is part of the Supply Chain and Ops Excellence organization located in Torrance, CA and will be a remote role.  

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Manage the assigned sourcing project plans to support cost savings, security of supply, continuous improvement and new tooling qualification efforts.
• Create and execute supply chain project plans for commercialization of new products, including establishing project timeline, securing required resources, and managing execution through product launch and handover to Supply Chain/Operations teams.
• Develop and implement project metrics/KPIs to measure milestone completion and outcomes; verify project timelines and objectives are met.
• Identify and implement best practices, including leveraging AI-enabled tools to increase speed and scale through automated meeting notes and action-item capture, status reporting and dashboard generation, draft project documentation (charters, timelines, RAID logs, toll gate readouts), stakeholder communications, and workflow reminders/follow-ups.
• Develop and present cohesive project and toll gate reviews with project teams and leadership.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Finance or Logistics, preferred. MBA, a plus
• 5-7 years’ experience with project management.
• 4+ years of combined supply chain and/or procurement experience
• Experience with AI-enabled, automation and workflow tools preferred
• Experience managing a high-volume project workload, leading multiple concurrent product / program launches with cross-functional teams to deliver new products or services.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel approx. 10-20% with overnight stay from time to time.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• 2 years’ experience in Plastics, Metals and/or Contract Manufacturing environments.
• Manufacturing Environments, Lean Thinking Principles, Operational Finance, Strategic Planning and/or Logistics experience a plus.

Phenomenex, 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.

The salary range for this role is $115,000 - $125,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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.

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