Senior Director, Operations - Sea-Bird Scientific

Senior Director, Operations

The Senior Director, Operations is the senior functional leader at Sea-Bird Scientific responsible for leading end-to-end operational performance across Manufacturing, Safety, Supply Chain, Logistics, Facilities, and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S). This role is accountable for delivering operational results aligned with business objectives across safety, quality, delivery, cost, working capital, and engagement.

As a member of the Sea-Bird Leadership Team, this role partners closely across Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, and Commercial teams to align operational priorities with business strategy, customer requirements, and financial objectives. The Senior Director, Operations translates business strategy into an integrated operating model and drives disciplined execution through strong operating rhythms, cross-functional collaboration, and a high-performing leadership team.

The role provides strategic operational leadership by ensuring manufacturing, supply chain, and logistics capabilities support growth objectives, customer commitments, and long-term business success. Through effective collaboration and influence, the Senior Director helps shape business decisions by bringing operational insight, data-driven recommendations, and a focus on execution excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end operational performance across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Facilities, and EH&S, ensuring operational capabilities support business objectives and customer commitments.
• Drive application of the Veralto Enterprise System (VES) to deliver continuous improvement and optimize the operating model to support business growth, product complexity, and organizational scalability.
• Translate business priorities into integrated operational plans and execution strategies.
• Lead a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement across all operations.
• Ensure regulatory and operational compliance while proactively identifying and mitigating risk.
• Foster an inclusive, high-engagement culture aligned with Veralto values.
• Establish and lead the operating system (VES, Daily Management, PSI) to ensure predictable and scalable execution.
• Drive alignment between strategic priorities and execution plans, ensuring effective prioritization and resource allocation.
• Deliver consistent, data-driven performance management across operational metrics.
• Use operational data and performance insights to identify opportunities, remove barriers, and drive sustainable improvement.
• Partner across Engineering, Commercial, Finance, and Human Resources to align priorities, provide operational insight, and support decisions impacting cost, quality, delivery, and customer outcomes.
• Partner with Human Resources to ensure the organization has the leadership capability, role clarity, and talent systems needed to support effective decision-making and cross-functional collaboration.
• Provide operational expertise to support product strategy through manufacturability, scalability, and lifecycle considerations.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to resolve systemic issues and improve end-to-end value stream performance.
• Contribute operational perspectives to business planning activities, helping ensure alignment between customer demand, operational capacity, and business objectives.
• Lead cost, productivity, inventory, and supply chain performance initiatives to achieve operational and financial objectives.
• Ensure operational decisions support margin improvement, growth objectives, and efficient use of capital.
• Anticipate and address operational constraints that may impact revenue, delivery, quality, or cost performance.
• Support achievement of business commitments through disciplined management of operational performance, resources, and working capital.
• Build and develop a strong operations leadership team with clear accountability for performance and development.
• Strengthen organizational capability to support growth, complexity, and continuous improvement.
• Develop leadership capability and succession plans for critical operations roles.
• Create an environment that fosters engagement, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivers predictable and scalable operational performance in support of business objectives.
• Establishes an operating model that supports growth, complexity, and execution excellence.
• Consistently balances cost, delivery, quality, and customer outcomes through sound decision-making.
• Builds a strong and accountable leadership bench across operations.
• Drives sustained improvement through system-level problem solving rather than point solutions.
• Serves as a trusted member of the Sea-Bird Leadership Team, influencing business decisions through operational expertise, sound judgment, and strong cross-functional partnership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience with increasing scope across manufacturing, supply chain, and operational functions.
• Demonstrated accountability for operational and financial outcomes, including cost, delivery, inventory, productivity, and working capital.
• Experience improving and evolving operating models within complex manufacturing environments.
• Proven ability to lead through systems (VES, PSI, Daily Management) to drive predictable performance and continuous improvement.
• Strong financial and business acumen with the ability to connect operational decisions to business outcomes.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and driving cross-functional alignment.
• Track record of developing leadership capability and scaling organizational effectiveness.