Senior Director Global Automation

At ResMed, we're on a mission to change lives with every breath - and our global supply chain is rapidly transforming to enable growth, resilience, quality, and value at scale.

The Senior Director, Global Automation will:

• Define and execute a multi-year enterprise automation and systems integration roadmap.

• Deliver lighthouse automation programs that establish scalable standards.

• Lead global governance, architecture, and deployment frameworks.

• Build and scale the automation operating model across manufacturing and distribution.

• Ensure automation investments translate into measurable improvements in throughput, quality, service, cost, safety, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy, Architecture and Governance

• Define the global automation and systems integration vision aligned to supply chain network strategy and growth plans.

• Collaborate with Digital and Operational leaders to establish global standards and reference architectures for OT/IT integration, including:

• PLC / SCADA

• MES

• WMS / WCS

• Robotics and material handling systems

• Historians and IoT platforms

• Edge computing and analytics layers

• Advise automation investment prioritization, lifecycle management, cybersecurity posture, and value realization.

• Implement engineering rigor across the solution lifecycle: requirements definition, validation, commissioning, ramp, documentation, and change control.

Automation Programs and Scalable Deployment

• Lead a portfolio of automation initiatives across manufacturing, test, packaging lines, intralogistics, and distribution automation.

• Convert automation outcomes into standardized deployment kits, including:

• Architecture patterns

• Technical specifications

• Training frameworks

• Cybersecurity standards

• Operational handover criteria

• Drive repeatable multi-site deployment using segmentation models and maturity-based roadmaps.

• Build and manage strategic partnerships with OEMs, integrators, and software providers.

Global Automation Operating Model

• Establish and lead a Global Automation Center of Excellence (CoE) or community of practice across regions.

• Define clear RACI models spanning Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, and Digital.

• Embed reliability-by-design principles including predictive maintenance, spares strategy, and uptime management.

• Integrate automation performance into daily management systems and KPI governance at site level.

• Partner cross-functionally with Quality, Regulatory, EHS, Finance, PMO, Procurement, and Digital.

Systems Integration and Performance Visibility

• Ensure seamless integration of automation platforms with enterprise systems and upstream/downstream processes.

• Standardize performance dashboards across sites, including:

• Throughput and cycle time

• OEE and yield

• Labor productivity

• Service level (OTIF)

• Safety performance

• Leverage simulation, digital twins, and statistical modeling to validate capacity and ROI before deployment.

• Ensure cyber-secure-by-design implementation across OT environments.

Capital Portfolio and Benefits Realization

• Own automation business case governance, including baseline definition and post-implementation verification.

• Manage a global automation CapEx and OpEx portfolio.

• Implement KPI-driven stage gates from concept through stabilization.

• Ensure formal operational handover criteria are achieved prior to project closure.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in industrial automation, systems integration, manufacturing engineering, or supply chain automation.

• 7+ years leading multi-site or enterprise-level transformation programs.

• Demonstrated success delivering lighthouse automation and scaling globally across factories and/or distribution centers.

• Strong expertise in OT/IT convergence and enterprise integration architectures.

• Experience with robotics, AS/RS, conveyors, AMRs/AGVs, automated test or packaging systems.

• Proven senior stakeholder leadership and operating model transformation capability.

• Strong commercial acumen in managing OEMs, integrators, and technology partners.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, or related). Advanced degree preferred.

Success Measures

• Verified annualized financial benefits from automation initiatives.

• Reduced pilot-to-scale deployment cycle time.

• Sustained automation uptime at or above agreed service levels.

• Measurable improvements in end-to-end lead time and service levels.

• Adoption of standardized automation frameworks across the majority of global sites.

• Established global governance, training, and certification pathways.

Why Join ResMed

This is a senior enterprise leadership mandate to define the next generation of automation across ResMed's global operations network.

You will:

• Set the global automation strategy.

• Build WEF accredited Lighthouse capabilities and scale them globally.

• Design the operating model required to sustain long-term performance.

• Directly influence resilience, speed, quality, safety, and service outcomes.

• Build the world class global team of automation strategy and execution experts