Christopher Rasmussen Email & Phone Number

Parsippany, NJ, US

Leads all aspects of the Zoetis Diagnostics & Bio Devices global manufacturing and supply operations. Responsible for multiple internal sites located in North Carolina and California as well as Contract Manufacturing operations globally. The Diagnostics & Bio Devices business supports greater than $300 Million in revenue with an exciting growth forecast.

Parsippany, NJ, US

• General manager of Zoetis’ largest manufacturing site: 1,000 employees based at two manufacturing sites responsible for the ABI manufacture of monoclonal antibody, bacterial and viral derived antigens; biologics.
• The 1.4 Million ft2 site supplies 1,500 SKUs to >130 countries (supporting >$3 Billion USD revenue).
• Successfully manage site through COVID pandemic while mitigating multiple critical material and consumable challenges, while fully removing supply backorders on critical medicines. Built new state of art Monoclonal.

New York, New York, US

• General manager of Pfizer’s largest FDA regulated combination product sites: 1,000 employees (Union Workforce) based at two manufacturing sites responsible for the aseptic filling, inspection, assembly and packaging of.
• Responsible for Remediation of a US FDA Warning Letter and Lifesaving Product supply.

New York, New York, US

• Responsible for operations at Pfizer’s largest FDA regulated combination product sites: >600 manufacturing, packaging, EHS, transformation, engineering, logistics and procurement employees based at two manufacturing.
• Cleared the EpiPen drug shortage by implemented Operational Excellence tools to increase Manual Visual Inspection and Assembly & Packaging output by 30% with no capital investments required.

New York, New York, US

• Designed and built transformation team from ground up to create a continuous improvement framework for the Pfizer Meridian Medical Technology, Inc. Company: Strategy & KPIs (Design), Business Analytics (Measure).
• Designed and built the site Program Management Office and Process Monitoring and Control programs to support FDA Warning Letter remediation commitments.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Requested by VP Americas and Europe operations to mitigate a business-critical supply chain risk at the Memphis, TN production facility ($185M External (CMO) and Internal revenue).
• Redesigned procurement, planning, KPI, warehousing, sales & distribution, and customer relationship management systems; and implemented a SAP ECC6 ERP system to deliver an 80% to 99% OTIF benefit.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• General manager of GlaxoSmithKline’s highest volume FDA regulated tableting site: 6-Billion tablets produced annually (120k lbs. of raw materials consumed each day). Site is the global supplier of TUMS (antacid), OsCal.
• Increased the customer service from 35% to 96% through leadership and operational changes.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Transformed a US and UK based team managing $350 Million in logistics spend into a global organization directly managing over $1 Billion of logistics spend (team of 19 people located in 8-countries).
• Delivered a logistics savings benefit of $192 Million over three years through implementation of supplier consolidation, should cost modeling, reverse auction, and supplier relationship management.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Developed and implemented the global GSK green energy strategy and led a team of five commodity managers to deliver high value projects requiring specialized capability and organizational influence.
• Designed, developed, and implemented a novel global spend analytics solution capable of aggregating 1.0 Billion GBP in supplier spend across the top 33 global manufacturing sites.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Integrated 42 raw material suppliers into the GSK network during the acquisition of Stiefel Labs.
• Mitigated a critical supplier risk by deleveraging and renegotiating a $33 Million raw material supplier contract which was capable of destabilizing $2.96 Billion of annual finished product revenue.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Managed transfer initiation, pilot and full-scale process development and optimization, process confirmation, validation & information collation, clinical trial supply, through process acceptance and commercial product.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Led manufacturing operations for PAXIL® and COREG® product families and delivered a 40% reduction in production lead time through implementation of operational excellence tools.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Requested by Global Quality SVP to support remediation of the strategically important Cidra manufacturing site under FDA consent decree ($7 Billion in revenue single sourced through factory).
• Led a team of 36 people to deliver all FDA validation and systems commitments on-time and in-full.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Leveraged Duke MBA experience and lean six sigma training to implement overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), value stream mapping and KAIZEN programs at the Zebulon manufacturing site.

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Built organization of 21-people and all systems from ground up to provide quality assurance oversight for 20 contract manufacturers and packagers producing product delivering $3.8 Billion in revenue.
• Consolidated supplier auditing responsibilities of five North American manufacturing sites into one program which saves GSK $535,000 year-on-year (400 North American suppliers).

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Prepared sites for and facilitated 20 Global FDA inspections in 11 countries across 13 dosage forms; including API, pharmaceutical, biologics and consumer health facilities (all FDA Inspections successful)

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

Mba, General Management

Ba, Chemistry