Sr. Program Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

Duties And Responsibilities
• Demonstrates program management standard methodologies and contributes to improving processes
• Leads the team to prepare for Phase Gate and other Go/No-Go decisions by executive leadership, ensuring that decisions are advised by a balanced and clearly articulated representation of the relevant data.
• Ensures alignment of product value proposition, program scope, and strategic business objectives.
• Leads program planning process ensuring requirements are clear and driven by customer need and experience.
• Defines, delegates, and evaluates the roles, responsibilities, goals and deliverables for core and extended team members.
• Manages internal teams and external vendors and partnerships.
• Independently determines and pursues courses of action vital to obtain desired results.
• Communicates program updates to functional management and executive leadership.
• Defines program resource needs and negotiates program resourcing plans.
• Leads key technical design and commercial excellence reviews, constructively challenging the team and the organization to rethink assumptions and approach headwinds in new ways.
• Leads cross-functional teams through problem resolution including root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Analyzes data and sophisticated situations involving evaluation of tangible variables to programs or collective system of projects.
• Work with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate Core Team resources are committed to the projects and contribute to required performance levels.
• Ensure effective and efficient regular formal and informal communications with the Core Teams using a variety of tools and channels.
• Lead, direct, coach, and mentor Team Members to maximize project success.
• Provide meaningful and significant feedback to functional leaders regarding the performance of Core Team members that is considered in annual performance evaluations.
• Lead product development utilizing a multitude of processes such as BD’s Global Product Delivery System, Voice of the Customer/Business, Project Management, and Agile.
• Ensure programs align with company quality management systems.
• Builds high morale and ensure the team commits to goals and objectives by creating a common purpose and direction.
• Suggests opportunities for improvement that have a significant impact (cost, cycle time, quality, etc.) and assists in developing or executing implementation plan.
• Lives and promotes the BD values.
Demonstrates proficiency in the following competency areas:
• Project & Cross-Functional Leadership - possesses the skills, knowledge and aptitude to engage, influence, and advise all functions involved in the development of the assigned product.
• Managerial - ability to manage product development teams effectively. This includes the management of internal teams and external vendors and partnerships
• Optimized Execution and Performance - advances long-term growth while consistently meeting or exceeding near-term business performance expectations.
• Personal Effectiveness - ability to work effectively within the project cross-functional organization.
• Business Excellence - ability to effectively apply business, financial and commercial knowledge to successfully deliver of the product development outcomes
• In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD), FDA Regulations and Compliance

Experience Required

Minimum Qualifications
• Demonstrated self-starter, and highly motivated.
• Holds understanding of technical/scientific principles that relate to immune oncology.
• Experience of developing IVD products in the U.S. and/or EU and/or rest of the world.
• Demonstrates excellence in both oral and written communication, in cross functional, and cross- cultural environment.

Skills & Certifications

• Ability to interact with executive leadership, highlight issues and provide options and solutions for resolution.
• Demonstrates ability to be effective in sophisticated projects with ambiguity and/or rapid change.
• Multiplexes well to prioritize multiple tasks and schedule work to meet business needs.
• Recognizing problems and using analytical problem skills to resolve.
• Demonstrates organizational and planning skills, and driving for results.
• Shows proficiency in team skills with ability to develop associates and influence others.
• Fosters collaboration among team members.

Eligibilities & qualifications

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field required, an MBA or other sophisticated business/management degree beneficial. PMP certification or equivalent beneficial.
• Demonstrable experience with modern program management tools and techniques to drive cohesion and execution within a cross functional core and extended team environment
• Minimum of 10-15 years of relevant proven experience in medical devices, diagnostics, or life sciences including demonstrated ability in successfully leading sophisticated, multi-year new product development programs delivered through robust, cross-functional, teams based in a matrix organization.