Senior Automation Program Leader

Vantive; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. We are accelerating digital solutions and automation to elevate dialysis care, with a focus on transforming operations to deliver better outcomes.

This role leads portfolio governance, business case development, and cross-functional change initiatives, partnering with engineering, quality, and finance to unlock productivity and value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, automation, manufacturing, or related field.
• 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 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 leadership

Cross-functional leadership

ROI analysis

Capital budgeting

Manufacturing automation

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. We are accelerating digital solutions and automation to elevate dialysis care, with a focus on transforming operations to deliver better outcomes.

This role leads portfolio governance, business case development, and cross-functional change initiatives, partnering with engineering, quality, and finance to unlock productivity and value.