Program Lead, Automation

Vantive; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantive is seeking a senior professional to lead plant automation transformation initiatives, delivering a scalable roadmap across Solutions and Sets. The role requires guiding multi-disciplinary teams, building business cases, and driving measurable efficiency improvements.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in manufacturing automation, large-scale program leadership, and a proven track record of delivering productivity and cost benefits through automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of manufacturing, automation, engineering, operations, or supply chain experience.
• 5+ years leading complex cross-functional automation or transformation programs.
• Proven track record delivering automation-enabled productivity, quality, capacity, labor efficiency, or cost improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own and govern the plant automation transformation roadmap for Solutions and Sets.
• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of automation, digital, line efficiency, labor productivity, and process simplification opportunities.
• Drive automation initiatives from concept and business case through design, build, validation, deployment, adoption, and sustainment.
• Set clear governance, execution cadence, decision rights, milestones, risks, and escalation paths for automation projects.
• Provide concise leadership updates on project progress, technical readiness, financial impact, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
• Develop automation business cases, capital requests, resource plans, and implementation roadmaps.
• Partner with Finance and functional owners to validate savings, ROI, payback, capacity impact, and benefit realization.
• Ensure automation benefits are measurable, auditable, sustained, and embedded into standard work.
• Align Operations, Engineering, Quality, Validation, EHS, Finance, Procurement, Planning and Fulfilment, IT/OT, and external partners to deliver the automation roadmap.

Skills

Automation transformation

Program leadership

ROI analysis

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Automation, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field

Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or automation certification (preferred)

Job description

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This section contains a list of primary responsibilities of work. The incumbent will perform other duties as assigned

Portfolio Leadership

• Own and govern the plant automation transformation roadmap for Solutions and Sets.
• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of automation, digital, line efficiency, labor productivity, and process simplification opportunities.
• Drive automation initiatives from concept and business case through design, build, validation, deployment, adoption, and sustainment.

Program Governance and Execution

• Set clear governance, execution cadence, decision rights, milestones, risks, and escalation paths for automation projects.
• Provide concise leadership updates on project progress, technical readiness, financial impact, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.

Business Case and Benefit Realization

• Develop automation business cases, capital requests, resource plans, and implementation roadmaps.
• Partner with Finance and functional owners to validate savings, ROI, payback, capacity impact, and benefit realization.
• Ensure automation benefits are measurable, auditable, sustained, and embedded into standard work.

Cross-Functional Leadership and Change Enablement

• Align Operations, Engineering, Quality, Validation, EHS, Finance, Procurement, Planning and Fulfilment, IT/OT, and external partners to deliver the automation roadmap.

Qualification / Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Automation, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field; advanced degree, Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or automation certification preferred.

• 8+ years of manufacturing, automation, engineering, operations, or supply chain experience.
• 5+ years leading complex cross-functional automation or transformation programs.
• Proven track record delivering automation-enabled productivity, quality, capacity, labor efficiency, or cost improvements.

Skill Set / Experience

Core Competencies

Critical Capabilities

• Automation transformation and complex program leadership
• Manufacturing automation, process engineering, validation readiness, and change execution
• Business case development, capital justification, ROI analysis, and benefits tracking

Reasonable Accommodation

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