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
- Do you have a clear view of where your money is going? How well are procurement, facilities and lab operations aligned on assets, contracts, demand and the true cost of running the operation?
- Are functional silos slowing down your decisions? When budgets are tight, how do you bring cost, risk and operational impact together to make faster, better-informed trade-offs?
- Who owns the outcome? How can procurement, service delivery and operations work together to create clearer accountability, predictable costs and measurable performance?
