Senior R&D Program Manager - Cardiac Ablation Solutions

• Responsible for driving cross-functional core team and working directly with functional leaders, regional leaders, and extended teams to ensure clear communication of program objectives, deliverables, and timing of key milestones.
• Lead team members for on-time, on-budget, within scope project completion, while managing stakeholder and business expectations.
• Accountable for the product development budget and schedule.
• Use of critical thinking and problem-solving skills as a leader of cross-functional teams through the intricate details of development projects; from scope definition, cost management to schedule development and risk management.
• Regular communication and presentation to CAS leadership team through program updates at the program review committee meetings
• Mentor team members to ensure each team member is fully engaged and contributing to project success.
• Champion product development best practices such as collecting high-quality Voice of Customer inputs, early risk burn-down and Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM).
• 25% or less domestic travel.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience or advanced degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

• Advanced degree such as MS or MBA
• Medical device industry experiences including new product development, released product management, clinical trials and regulatory submissions
• DRM Blackbelt
• Experience managing complex cross-department and/or cross-functional project teams
• Experience leading collaboratively in a diverse, global, matrixed organization.

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