Job Description Summary

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. 

Responsibilities

• Core Team Leader with a technical acumen for complex medical device platforms and important sub-projects with responsibilities for large elements of product development, design transfer and sustaining efforts.

• Provide program management and technical leadership, to direct and in-direct reports, with the ability to deep dive into cross-functional and technical issues.

• Lead product development activity ensuring that a structured design and development process is followed, ensuring compliance with quality management systems and regulatory requirements, where applicable.

• Implement best-in-class PM and R&D tools, processes & standards within the development platform.

• Manages the overall platform program roadmap ensuring each element of the product development pipeline is delivered while communicating with the business to ensure optimization of the market window, customer requirements, product release strategies and competitive advantage aligned with strategic business objectives.

• 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.

• Define program budget and resource needs and negotiate program budget and resource plans to deliver the program in a timely and cost effective manner. Work with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate core team resources are committed to the program and contribute to required performance levels.

• Establish, delegate, and evaluate the roles, responsibilities, goals, deliverables and performance of core and extended team members while also building high team morale.

• 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 the team to prepare for and execute Phase Gate and other Go/No-Go decisions.  Represent the team with BD executive leadership, ensuring such decisions are informed by a balanced and clearly articulated representation of the relevant data.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Marketing Degree required. Master's degree or PhD preferred.

• At least 10 years of growing responsibility in Program Management and/or technical leadership role with cross-functional experience and 5-10 years of medical industry experience in a complex matrix environment.

• Extensive, successful experience in product development and a clear understanding of quality management systems and regulated businesses (e.g. FDA).

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary team members in a complex matrix environment.

• Experience in a proven design process over multiple programs.

• Experience in executive presence.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to all levels of the organization, spanning cross-functional teams to business leadership.

• Expert in cross functional/cross-sites/external strategic partner team leadership delivering critical business goals within a phase-gate based product development process.

• Expert in the development and deployment of program management tools and techniques, including methods for tracking progress, risk management and delivery of major milestones.

• Demonstrated analytical skillsets, decision making, and business acumen.

• Skilled at facilitating team dynamics and fostering development in others. Attract, develop, and engage a team of high-performance Program Managers as well as cross-functional core team membe