Job Description Summary

We are recruiting for a highly driven cross-functional leader with proven product development and technical leadership experience to drive key strategic initiatives. As the program lead of a cross functional team within a matrix organization, the Senior Program Manager will bring novel medical devices, from concept through development, to formal release, including managing project schedules, identifying and mitigating risks, managing the Design History File and ensuring strong alignment with all program stakeholders. This leader would lead the cross functional team through BD’s phase gate product development process from planning to commercialization. He or she represents the program and the program team to executive leadership as well as the global organization.

The Senior Program Manager is accountable for leveraging new and diverse approaches resulting in optimized solutions by leading the team through commercial, regulatory, manufacturing, and technical problem solving and decision making, ensuring that the functional experts are held accountable. This leader also leads and facilitates the decisions related to talent and resource allocations, negotiations and changes working with functional managers and other business leaders.

He or she will have demonstrated experience in successful execution of business strategy, challenging assumptions about the fit of the program within that strategy, and aligning program plans to strategic objectives. He or she will drive for continuous improvement and agility in the process ensuring that program timelines are met or accelerated. A successful candidate for the role will have strong technical aptitude for medical or other regulated products with integrated hardware and software.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads assigned cross-functional team members in the successful development of products (from concept to commercialization) required to support the strategic plan.

• Ensure governance mechanisms, such as core team meetings, key technical design and commercial excellence and industrialization reviews are undertaken in a timely, comprehensive, and effective manner. Develop a mentality of collaboration, execution, and continuous improvement within the program through these mechanisms.

• Lead cross-functional teams through identification of risks & mitigations, problem resolution and root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action. Constructively challenge the team and the organization to rethink assumptions and approach headwinds in new ways. Independently determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

• Accountable to senior leadership team and program management leadership for overall program execution and success

• Maintains the phase schedule and leads cross-functional team(s) through successful completion of the phase review process. Resolves action items initiated at phase reviews

• Ensures that products are launched on time and meet established goals and objectives that support the financial and driven goals of the organization

• Ensures that cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task and outcome completion

• Provides the communication link between the team and Senior leadership team and other partners

• Coaches team members to ensure process adherence and effective project management, applying standard methodology project management skills, as well as framing and resolving issues through the NPD process and other standard methodologies.

• Leads key reviews, and constructively challenges the team and the organization to rethink assumptions and approach challenges in new ways.

Knowledge and Skills

• Exceptional and effective verbal, written and presentation skills.  Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to all levels of the organization, spanning cross-functional teams to business leadership.

• Excellent project management skills, with a track record of handling multiple programs and streams of work

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