Vice President, Program Management

Ever wondered how your skills and unique background could impact the world of tomorrow? Join and lead our Paramit  Program Management team and bring your passion and talent to work.

Vice President, Program Management

Morgan Hill, CA, US

Paramit is Tecan’s contract development and manufacturing business, specializing in the design and production of high-quality MedTech systems and life science instrumentation. As a key part of Tecan Group, Paramit combines its advanced engineering and manufacturing expertise with Tecan’s global reach and innovative solutions to deliver exceptional solutions for the healthcare sector. With locations in Morgan Hill, CA, and Penang, Malaysia, Paramit offers a rewarding work environment with global opportunities. While embracing its global reach, Paramit maintains an entrepreneurial feel, fostering an employee-focused, highly collaborative culture. The company helps clients to maximize the potential of their core technologies and speed the transition from product development through to full-scale manufacturing and market launch.

To drive the profitable expansion of our highly successful contract manufacturing services, we are seeking a Vice President of Program Management. This senior role will lead our team of program managers in close collaboration with our operations, supply chain, engineering, new product introduction, business development, and commercial excellence teams to deliver exceptional results for our partners.

This role is part of the senior leadership team overseeing the operations in California and reports to the General Manager for Paramit in Morgan Hill, CA.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Strategy: define account strategies to optimize efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness for existing clients to deliver best-in-class customer experience.
• Relationship building: Oversee and coordinate all strategic activities throughout the client organization, establish trusted relationships, and provide regular updates on program status, milestone tracking, risks, and opportunities. Identify potential risks and proactively propose de-risking proposals with the client. Identify business expansion opportunities with the commercial team.
• Collaboration: Work with the engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, NPI, and commercial excellence teams within the Tecan Partnering and Paramit organizations to drive client program success.
• Results: oversee our client manufacturing services programs to exceed quality, timeline, and budget expectations. Assess business models, product pricing, inventory levels and other key commercial terms, and monitor performances.
• Contracting & Negotiation: Negotiate, execute, and monitor adherence to client contractual obligations. Drive program change by evaluating business metrics, including regular assessment of inventory levels. Manage to disposition of excess materials regularly and propose de-risking strategies as needed.
• Communications: Identify and resolve potential conflicts internally and/or with clients and propose proactive solutions. Ensure seamless onboarding of new clients with the NPI team.
• Leadership & Coaching: provide leadership and guidance to a diverse group of experienced progra