Sr Director, Sustaining Engineering

Purpose and Scope: The Head of Sustaining Center for Value Stream Dialyzer and Capacity Planning (VSD) for In-Center holds two critical global leadership mandates:

• •Lead Sustaining Engineering and post-launch product lifecycle management for the €1.2B Value Stream Dialyzers business
• •Lead integrated capacity planning and capacity strategy for the €4B In-Center business unit

For VSD, the position protects business continuity, product compliance, customer supply, manufacturing performance, and lifecycle competitiveness across the global Dialyzer portfolio.

For In-Center, the position establishes the global capacity-planning framework and translates commercial demand, portfolio strategy, regional growth, and technology roadmaps into capacity scenarios, investment priorities, and manufacturing-network recommendations.

The position reports to the SVP, Value Stream Dialyzers Leader , serves as a member of the VSD Leadership Team , and operates with an enterprise-wide mandate across In-Center.

• •Protect €1.2B in annual VSD revenue by safeguarding product availability, regulatory compliance, manufacturing continuity, and post-launch performance.
• •Lead capacity planning for the €4B In-Center business , ensuring timely capacity availability to support growth, portfolio transitions, and customer demand.
• •Own the global Dialyzer portfolio after launch , including reliability, compliance, manufacturability, supply resilience, cost competitiveness, and lifecycle value.
• •Define and authorize VSD sustaining priorities , including critical product, process, material, supplier, quality, and manufacturing changes.
• •Develop and recommend In-Center capacity assumptions and scenarios and major capacity, technology, and manufacturing-network investments.
• •Authorize business-continuity actions when supply, quality, regulatory, supplier, or manufacturing risks threaten business performance.
• •Drive structural productivity and cost improvement across the established Dialyzer portfolio and manufacturing network.
• •Build and lead global organizations with strong engineering, analytical, financial, and strategic planning capabilities.

• •Define, approve, and lead the global Sustaining Engineering strategy for Value Stream Dialyzers.
• •Hold executive accountability for the performance and continuity of the Dialyzer portfolio following commercial launch.
• •Authorize and prioritize product, process, material, supplier, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing changes based on patient, business, compliance, and supply impact.
• •Lead the transition of newly launched products into stable, scalable, and cost-effective lifecycle management.
• •Approve lifecycle roadmaps and recommendations for product extension, redesign, transfer, rationalization, hold, or discontinuation.
• •Anticipate and mitigate lifecycle risks, including obsolescence, material discontinuation, supplier dependency, quality trends, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• •Serve as the executive escalation and decision authority for critical sustaining issues within the position’s mandate.

• •Authorize cross-functional response programs where supplier, material, quality, regulatory, capacity, or manufacturing risks threaten customer supply.
• •Approve mitigation priorities, contingency measures, and resource deployment within delegated authority.
• •Establish governance and executive visibility for material business-continuity risks.
• •Define and approve the VSD productivity and lifecycle competitiveness roadmap.
• •Lead initiatives in automation, yield improvement, process optimization, design-to-value, material cost reduction, standardization, and complexity reduction.
• •Hold teams accountable for measurable improvements in supply reliability, cost, margin, quality, and lifecycle performance.

In-Center Capacity Planning, Investment and Manufacturing-Network Strategy

• •Define, lead, and institutionalize the integrated capacity-planning and manufacturing-network strategy for the €4B In-Center business.
• •Translate market demand, commercial ambitions, portfolio roadmaps, regional growth, and technology strategies into long-term capacity

• •Serve as a member of the VSD Leadership Team, contributing to business strategy, portfolio direction, financial planning, and organizational priorities.
• •Represent VSD and In-Center in relevant sustaining, capacity, and investment governance forums.
• •Chair or sponsor global governance for VSD sustaining and In-Center capaci