Marilyn Sanchez
Manager of Lab Operations Seattle Children’s Hospital
Marilyn Sanchez is an experienced operations leader with over a decade of expertise in operations management, process improvement, and cross-functional leadership within healthcare and biotechnology environments. She specializes in building scalable systems, optimizing workflows, and driving operational efficiency across complex organisations.
Throughout her career, Marilyn has led laboratory and operational programs supporting 50–60+ stakeholders, managing budgets, vendor partnerships, and service contracts while ensuring compliance with GLP and GMP standards. Her work has consistently focused on improving performance, reducing downtime, and strengthening operational reliability.
She has successfully implemented inventory management platforms and workflow tracking tools that enhance visibility, enable data-driven decision-making, and streamline operations. Marilyn regularly collaborates with teams across facilities, procurement, quality, and leadership to align operational execution with broader business goals.
With core expertise in operations management, continuous improvement, vendor and budget management, compliance, and team leadership, Marilyn brings a structured and practical approach to solving challenges and building systems that scale effectively.
Seminars
- Reducing total operating cost and budget leakage by aligning procurement, facilities, and lab operations around shared visibility into assets, contracts, and demand, eliminating duplicated spend and unmanaged scope creep
- Improving decision quality and speed by breaking down functional silos and creating a single, aligned view of cost, risk, and operational impact, enabling faster trade-offs when budgets and priorities are constrained
- Increasing accountability and predictability across the value chain by coordinating sourcing, service delivery, and operational planning so costs, service levels, and performance expectations are clearly owned and measurable
