Patrick Benson

About Patrick Benson

Strategic Operational Excellence and Manufacturing Transformation leader with 20+ years driving enterprise performance across pharma and biotech networks. My career has grown from production floor supervision to leading multi-site transformation, bringing together people-centric leadership with data-driven execution to unlock ownership, capacity, reduced cost, and elevate operating maturity.My leadership philosophy is grounded in coaching, empowerment, transparency, and disciplined problem solving. I partner across Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, MSAT, and Commercial interfaces to align strategy, harmonize execution, and hardwire continuous improvement into the business rhythm. The mandate is consistent: build trust, optimize the system, strengthen decision velocity, and scale behaviors that sustain performance at the point of execution.I’ve orchestrated Lean/TPS-based operating systems, tiered daily management, and enterprise CI infrastructures that delivered measurable upside including multi-million-dollar productivity gains, year-over-year COGs reductions, labor hour reduction, improved utilization, waste identification and higher engagement across biologics, cell therapy, reagent, and device environments. I create clarity around priorities, govern to KPIs, and ensure leaders have mechanisms to manage the business proactively instead of reactively.My continuous learning mindset (Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, PMP, Agile, and Change Management) allows me to operate with structured rigor while maintaining flexibility in dynamic and regulated environments. I excel at influencing senior stakeholders, simplifying complex value streams, and guiding teams through ambiguity with confidence and speed.I believe deeply in the “Respect for People” principle from the Toyota Production System (TPS), a philosophy that transforms teams from by-standers into owners and active problem-solvers. I help leaders shift from managing departments to leading people, cultivating environments where agility, accountability, and excellence thrive.I’m energized by environments looking to create an OE culture, professionalize operations, mature CI capabilities, and deploy scalable operating systems anchored in People, Process, and Performance. If your organization is mobilizing around operational excellence, digital execution, or enterprise transformation, let’s connect.Open to Director level roles driving OE/CI, manufacturing performance, PMO governance, strategy deployment, and transformation across the U.S.

Experience

1. Director of Continuous Improvement

   STERIS

   Mar 2026 — Present

Education

• Penn State University

  BS

Skills

• Lifesciences
• Glp
• Biotechnology
• Molecular Biology
• Science
• Gmp