Global VP of Advanced Engineering & Innovation

This individual comes from a multinational Healthcare / MedTech organization and spearheads automation strategy, digital transformation, and operational excellence for three massive global business segments pulling in $11B in revenue.

What they do day-to-day:

• Internal Consultant & Fixer: act as the go-to internal advisor for our entire supply chain, keeping the operation resilient and building out what our future factories should look like.

• Streamlined Global Operations: completely overhauled and combined our automation and equipment build shops across Europe and the Americas. This cleared the bottleneck, allowing us to roll out $250M in major capital projects much faster.

• Brought in Next-Gen Tech: led the design and global launch of our Industry 5.0 smart factories. We successfully mixed IIoT, AI vision, and human-AI collaboration to give our operational efficiency a massive upgrade.

• Scaled Data to 30 Sites: launched a cloud-based tech platform across 30 global factories, turning raw equipment data into actual, useful insights.

• Built Elite Teams & Tech Ecosystems: put together and led a high-performing team while building a network of tech partners to keep us ahead of the competition.

• Created the Playbook: built the global roadmap and playbook for our digital manufacturing, introducing a fast "Innovate → Develop → Scale" model that cut out the fluff and got tech on the factory floor way quicker.

Here are the specific roles they would be perfect for:

The C-Suite (Executive Leadership)

• Chief Technology Officer (CTO): Especially for a massive manufacturing, industrial, or logistics company. They have the exact blueprint for taking old-school operations and injecting them with modern tech (AI, Cloud, IIoT).

  
  

• Chief Operating Officer (COO): Since they already run operational excellence for an $11B segment, stepping up to oversee total operations for a major corporation is the logical next step.

  
  

• Chief Digital Officer (CDO): Perfect for a legacy company that desperately needs a massive digital overhaul across global sites.

  
  

Senior Vice President (SVP) Roles

• SVP / VP of Global Supply Chain & Operations: They’ve proven they can make supply chains resilient and redesign global asset networks (like consolidating the shops in Europe and the Americas).

• SVP / VP of Manufacturing Engineering / Advanced Manufacturing: This matches their current title but opens doors at competitors in automotive, aerospace, pharma, or heavy tech (think Tesla, Honeywell, Boeing, or Pfizer).

• SVP of Operational Excellence / Lean Transformation: Ideal for a private equity firm looking for an executive to go into their portfolio companies and optimize them for maximum value.