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Position Summary:
Reporting to the SVP and Business Leader for Illumina's emerging growth businesses, the VP and General Manager, Global Microarray Business will oversee a global fully cross-functional team, providing visionary leadership to expand Illumina's position in this well-established & growing market. While always striving to serve the interests and mission of Illumina, ultimately expanding Illumina's position in the large and competitive microarray landscape.
Illumina is looking for a bold business leader to run all aspects of the Global Microarray business to deliver a complete portfolio of solutions targeted at this high-growth application areas such as Agri-genomics, cytogentics, and methylation. This is a unique opportunity within Illumina with the exciting mission of significantly expanding the use of Illumina's entire portfolio of solutions across all target markets.
The Global Microarray Business VP & General Manager will oversee a portfolio comprised of instruments, reagents & consumables, workflow automation, software & analytics, and laboratory services across research and clinical customers. Reporting to an Executive Leadership Team member, the General Manager will oversee business performance across functions, managing research, technology and product development, product management, marketing, and collaborating with global and regional commercial and operations teams.
A deep understanding of the microarray market and technology trends and a commitment to creativity are essential for leading this organization and business to deliver a differentiated & competitive portfolio of microarray solutions. Full accountability for P&L, quality metrics, and organizational development is expected.
Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs and other related duties may be assigned.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead a Unified Global Microarray Portfolio and Organizational Competencies

• Develop and execute a multi-year global growth strategy and regional operating plans to expand Illumina's microarray position, focused on delivering a complete portfolio of solutions.
• Lead the cross-functional team with shared accountability for developing and delivering successful go-to-market plans for our strong existing portfolio (from core internal roadmap and M&A portfolio) that translate into effective operational plans which deliver expected business results.
• Lead the team to develop and execute a multi-year innovative R&D roadmap of microarray workflow solutions including instrumentation, reagents/consumables, workflow automation, software, analytics, and service offerings.
• Collaborate closely with global & regional commercial & operations teams with dedicated microarray expertise.
• Lead the organization to ensure development, delivery, market and successful sale of a complete portfolio of microarray solutions at scale while ensuring compliance with global regulatory & compliance needs.
• Ensure seamless collaboration across global and regional teams to represent the global microarray market and delivery of a full portfolio of solutions to the market.

Lead a Unified Organization

• Build an enduring organizational capability and competence to develop and deliver a quality, competitive, differentiated and compliant portfolio of microarray solutions.
• Establish a culture of shared accountability across all functions focused on customer impact, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Champion cross-functional collaboration across direct- and dotted-line reporting structures to align on common goals, objectives, and business performance across the global microarray market-landscape.
• Develop talent, future leaders, and core competencies including global business leadership in microarray solutions for customers across the research to clinical continuum.
• Cultivate a strong collaborative team that represents the VOC for product development, market development, commercialization, and successful global market adoption.
• Lead by example, promoting cross-functional collaboration and managing the global P&L across the integrated and unified cross-functional organization to achieve target revenue and profit growth.
• Operate as a "player-coach" and proven leader/developer of people; capable of leading, motivating and holding teams accountable.

Deliver Results with Discipline & Operational Excellence

• Lead the development and execution of a portfolio of microarrays offerings.
• Build an agile and accountable cross-functional business team that embodies operational rigor and discipline to deliver on-target business results and quality metrics.
• Facilitate cross-functional business team to set and own global quality and performance standards with a focus on customer satisfaction, business results, and compliance.
• Collaborate with all global core functions including Sales, Service & Support, Core R&D, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and Medical Affairs teams to ensure alignment on Illumina's Global Microarray strategy.
• Ensure a consistent operating model across all regions and end-customer segments; drive benchmarking and best practice sharing and execution across all functions & regions.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead, inspire, and grow a high-performing cross-functional global team across Product Management, Marketing, R&D, Operations, Quality, and Sales & Service functions.
• Foster a customer- and business-led culture of accountability, discipline, collaboration, agility, and innovation centered on a complete portfolio of microarray solutions delivering differentiated value for customers.
• Serve as a key voice of the customer, influencing company-wide initiatives.
• Champion inclusion, talent development, and future business-leadership succession across the company.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated business-leadership in building and scaling global life science, ideally microarray, portfolio of solutions and organizational capabilities with cross-functional leadership responsibility and full P&L management responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading regulatory-compliant product and workflow solutions development and delivery of a complete portfolio of instrument, consumables, software, analytics, and service offerings.
• Ability to influence across all functions including core R&D and Regional Commercial teams in addition to shared-service organizations in a matrixed environment.
• Strong financial acumen and ability to translate strategy into sustainable & scalable business results.

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in life sciences, and ideally within the genomics & microarray applications spaces; MBA or advanced clinical degree preferred
• Minimum 20 years of increasing leadership experience, working in a complex matrixed organization. 5 or more years of executive or senior-level leadership experience preferred . Minimum 2 years leading a business with full P&L management responsibility.

The estimated base salary range for the Vice President & General Manager, Global Microarray Business role based in the United States of America is: $278,800 - $418,200. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base pay range may be updated accordingly. The range reflects long-term growth in the role; therefore, most candidates are hired between the minimum and middle of the range. Placement depends on experience, skills, location, and internal equity. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package. We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work, including access to genomics sequencing, family planning, health/dental/vision, retirement benefits, and paid time off.
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