Senior R&D Manager - Interventional Heart Failure

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

 

About the role:

As a Senior R&D Manager, you will lead a team of engineers and technicians in the design, development, and commercialization of innovative medical devices within the Interventional Heart Failure (IHF) division of Boston Scientific. 

 

This position is a leader in a fast-growing team with significant investment from the franchise.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
• Assessing project team needs across IHF and working with technical leads and program managers to ensure they are set up for technology and product development success.
• Providing direction and/or guidance to R&D engineers and technicians who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments. 
• Fostering a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Collaboratively determines project staff assignments and schedules to meet completion dates and R&D deliverables.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to identify and resolve technical issues
• Monitors and evaluates project and department progress and results
• Creating an entrepreneurial environment.
• Keeping the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrating effective change leadership.
• Building strategic partnerships across Boston Scientific to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Developing and executing organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitoring compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Making decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Developing, monitoring and appropriately adjusting the annual budget for department.
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. federal/country and regulatory requirements).

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or more from accredited school in Mechanical, Biotechnical, Biomedical, or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in medical equipment or medical device design
• Demonstrated capability to produce innovative solutions for complex technical problems.
• Personal drive, individual accountability & a strong bias for action.