Paul Anderson

About Paul Anderson

Accomplished operations leader with a successful track record in driving operational excellence across global supply chains and manufacturing for ISO 13485 medical device and ISO 9001 life science companies in the USA, UK, and EU. Proven expertise in reducing costs, enhancing manufacturing efficiency, and orchestrating seamless product and process transfers for rapid scale-up in Asia. Extensive experience leading company operations while living in Europe. KEY SKILLS Global Supply Chain Strategy & Operations | Category Management | Leadership | Procurement | Cross-functional Collaboration | Supplier Management | Sourcing | Contract Negotiation | Manufacturing || CMO | Process Improvement | Production Planning |Manufacturing Engineering | M&A Integration || Program Management | Enterprise Systems Implementation | Logistics & Distribution | CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Managed global procurement, distribution, and life sciences supply chains across Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, achieving >95% on-time customer fulfillment, minimal backorders, and minimal manufacturing disruptions. • Directed sourcing teams in the US, UK, and Singapore, generating over $3B in annual revenue, securing annual cost savings of $25M in direct materials and $20M of indirect materials, and optimizing cash flow by $175M. • Headed consumable manufacturing strategic operations, clinical operations, manufacturing reliability engineering, manufacturing software engineering, and enterprise business systems. Led global program implementation teams that improved operational productivity and scaled-up operations infrastructure for future growth. • Spearheaded infrastructure projects to upgrade and optimize US HQ real estate, enhancing productivity for Manufacturing, Supply Chain, R&D, and SG & A. • Implemented Switzerland-based “commissionaire” and UK-based “toll manufacturing” financial structures and the required enterprise business systems rollouts for multinational companies, significantly reducing corporate taxes.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Strategic Operations

   Illumina

   Aug 2021 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Leading the engineering and manufacturing software development teams that support consumables manufacturing systems and equipment. Leading the engineering team that plans and implements the ongoing transfer of US new product pilot manufacturing to high-volume low-cost manufacturing in Asia.

Education

• Keck Graduate Institute

  Certificate in Applied Genomics, Genome Sciences/Genomics

• Harvard University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

• Oregon State University

  Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering