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About Dexcom

Founded in 1999, Dexcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM), develops and markets Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems for ambulatory use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers for the treatment of people with diabetes. The company is the leader in transforming diabetes care and management by providing CGM technology to help patients and healthcare professionals better manage diabetes. Since the company’s inception, Dexcom has focused on better outcomes for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by delivering solutions that are best in class - while empowering the community to take control of diabetes. Dexcom reported full-year 2022 revenues of $2.9B, a growth of 18% over 2021. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with additional offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company employs over 8,000 people worldwide.

Summary:

• Drives the long-range strategic planning process for operations by overseeing and managing all manufacturing operations, including manufacturing itself, production control, inventory control.
• Develops operations-related plans, capacity, budgets, infrastructure, policies, and procedures.
• Drives adoption of new process or products into manufacturing and product readiness for commercial launch.
• Champions improvements in overall cost of goods.
• Responsible for ensuring full compliance to all applicable requirements and specifications imposed by the company, the customer and/or the industry while seeking creative cost effective solutions; challenging the status quo and evolving the culture within manufacturing departments.
• Maintains quality, safety and regulatory compliance relating to the production facility.
• Defines goals, improves technologies, and resolves problems in conjunction with managers of manufacturing, quality assurance, engineering, supply chain, customer service and sales.
• Translates customer requirements into state-of-the-art manufacturing strategies and processes, resulting in cost-effective processing and profitable manufacturing of company products.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Responsible for manufactured products life cycle management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategy / Planning:

• Make sound decisions to prevent serious impacts on the overall success of manufacturing operations.
• Works on abstract problems across functional areas of the business.
• Identifies and evaluates fundamental issues for major functional areas through assessment of intangible variables.
• Drive strategy and business direction within area of expertise.

• Set goals, establishes priorities, manage resources, develop concept and approaches, review projects progress and results; make management decisions.
• Responsible for ensuring that department is committed to and conforms to the company quality system procedures as documented.

People / Collaboration:

• Supervise subordinate personnel including: hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, coaching, initiating corrective or disciplinary actions, and establishing and sustaining long-term human resources and skill requirements for the manufacturing teams.

• Manage manufacturing operational issues by acting as the primary liaison with other members of management, engineering, supply chain, clinical and regulatory, quality assurance, quality control, sales and marketing.
• Develop leadership in others - focused upon personal and collective accountability while fostering an environment that enhances personal growth and career development through mentoring and training; performance management, and challenging the organization to strive for higher performance levels.
• Act as a key member of the senior management team, foster a proactive approach, and recommend and implement solutions to company issues to drive performance enabling the company to meet and exceed its short-term and long-term objectives.
• Develop a strong relationship and shared vision with business leaders establishing a common vision, to create and deliver competitive strength to the organization; specific focus in leveraging strength and teamwork across organizations.

Operations / Manufacturing Process:

• Establish overall direction while creating and implementing a vision for continual improvement of operational services at a detail level as well as higher organizational level; work with others to establish methodologies to resolve process issues.
• Increase the overall productivity of the manufacturing operations organization as evidenced by lower cost, higher quality solutions provided on time.
• Build a reputation for the manufacturing organization of high integrity, competitive and proactive leadership, and sustained performance by delivering quality product on a timely basis.
• Manage all aspects of operations cycle within operational budgets and functional goals of the facility.
• Develop and manage clear and effective performance metrics for the manufacturing organization as a whole, as well as individuals, measuring the effectiveness; use metric trends and data to drive the business and decisions therein.
• Ensure all manufacturing operations projects, initiatives, and processes conform to all applicable requirements and specifications imposed by the company, the customer and/or the industry.
• Drive new thoughts in approach, process and methodology while respecting the work and processes of the past.

• Directly responsible for implementation and maintenance of manufacturing department procedures. Report on the performance of manufacturing operations. Plan and maintain departmental budget for the effective operation of the department.

Required Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be an operational leader within area of expertise.
• Use logic to analyze or identify underlying principles, reasons, or facts associated with information or data to draw conclusions; explore alternatives and propose quality solutions.

• Supervise others; identify the best person for a task, assign and direct work; conduct employee evaluations; staff training and development; take appropriate disciplinary/corrective actions; make hiring/termination recommendations; manage a work force to ensure fair employment practices.
• Establish objectives and specify the strategies and actions to achieve company/department goals and objectives.
• Applies emotional intelligence in day to day and change management.
• Communicate information and ideas clearly, and concisely, in writing; read and understand information presented in writing; listen to, and understand, information and ideas as presented verbally. Consistently operates in a collaborative manner.
• Evaluate information against a set of standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ideally have Operations and/or Quality experience
• Ideally have medical device/pharmaceutical experience.

Travel Required:

• 0 – 24%

Exempt Salary Details:

The annual base salary range for this role is $149,000 to $248,300. Final compensation package will ultimately depend on factors including relevant experience, skillset, knowledge, business needs and market demand.

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

An Equal Opportunity Employer . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at [email protected] .

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at [email protected] .

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