Location
Ballina, Ireland
Department
Research & Development
Summary
This is a pivotal role at the heart of Hollister’s innovation engine. Our Senior Program Managers are enterprise leaders of complex, cross‑functional initiatives. They play a critical role in driving predictable execution, enabling strategic decision‑making, and connecting technical work to customer and business outcomes. As a Senior Program Manager, you will be the architect and orchestrator of one of our most critical, complex, and strategically important programs – the initiatives that shape our portfolio, strengthen our competitive position, and directly improve the experience of patients and clinicians around the world.
This highly visible leadership role has direct interaction across functional and executive leadership, requiring strong leadership, systems thinking, technical depth, and effective communication. It is ideal for someone who brings both operational discipline and strategic fluency, can orchestrate teams, clarify trade‑offs, and anticipate challenges long before they materialise. If you want real ownership, real complexity and real impact, this role is it.
Responsibilities
Deliver Strategic Outcomes Across a Cluster of Programs
Translate innovation ambition and strategic goals into a portfolio‑aligned program roadmap.
Ensure programs deliver meaningful customer experience, clinical value, and business results.
Shape scope, priorities, and sequencing to maximise impact across the portfolio.
Orchestrate Cross‑Functional Teams Through Complexity
Lead multifunctional teams (Engineering, Operations, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Marketing) around one integrated plan.
Bring discipline to interdependency management, resource alignment, and risk mitigation.
Be the integrator who makes the whole system work.
Drive Predictability, Speed, and Rigor
Build robust plans with clear critical paths, decision gates, and scenario models.
Surface risks early, with data and recommended actions.
Ensure teams do not drift; ensure leaders are not surprised.
Elevate Decision Quality
Provide concise, evidence‑based insights to guide trade‑offs.
Identify structural issues that impact timing, cost, or technical feasibility.
Drive closure through decisions made, actions owned, timelines defended.
Influence Up, Down, and Across
Communicate program narratives with authority and clarity to the ELT.
Coach project managers and engineers on execution discipline and risk‑thinking.
Build Capability & Improve the System
Role‑model best‑in‑class program leadership behaviours.
Feed lessons into the PMO to elevate standards, templates, and governance.
Strengthen Hollister’s culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous learning.
What Great Looks Like
Thinks like an owner: Focused on enterprise value, not departmental activity.
Leads with clarity: Simplifies complexity and brings alignment where there was noise.
Anticipates: Sees patterns, risks, and opportunities early.
Influences naturally: Gains followership through credibility, calmness, and logic.
Connects dots: Technical, commercial, operational, clinical – no blind spots.
Makes the hard calls: Frames trade‑offs and drives decisions with confidence.
Delivers consistently: Predictable results, even in unpredictable environments.
Requirements
Minimum of 10 years of relevant program management or core team leadership experience, with a strong track record in large, complex product development projects in regulated environments, preferably medical devices.
Demonstrated success managing interdependent projects across technical and commercial domains.
Strong systems‑thinking and risk‑management capabilities.
Exceptional communication, synthesis, and senior‑level influencing skills.
Mastery of integrated planning, scenario analysis, and evidence‑based escalation.
Experience with Stage‑Gate systems and Project Portfolio Management (PPM).
Communicate with authority and calm, build trust through concise, data‑driven updates.
Lead through influence, earning followership by clarity, preparation, and fairness.
Ability to travel up to 10 %.
Ability to work in a hybrid environment.
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical field. Advanced degree preferred.
Professional PM Certification (Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent).
Experience in regulatory environments (21 CFR, QSR 830, ISO 13485:2003, ISO 14971, Risk Management), medical devices preferred.
Total Rewards & Benefits
The anticipated base salary range for this position is €89,000 – €126,400. The actual salary varies based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, abilities, and other legitimate business factors.
If applicable, this position is also eligible to participate in the Hollister XX Bonus Plan.
Health Insurance
Life Assurance
Employee Assistance Programme
Wellness events throughout the year
Company Pension Plan
Annual Leave 24 days per year pro‑rated.
About Hollister Incorporated
Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee‑owned company that develops, manufactures and markets healthcare products worldwide. The company spearheads the advancement of innovative products for ostomy care, continence care and critical care, and also creates educational support materials for patients and healthcare professionals. Headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, Hollister has manufacturing and distribution centres on three continents and sells in nearly 80 countries. Hollister is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Firm of John Dickinson Schneider, Inc., and is guided by its Mission to make life more rewarding and dignified for people who use our products and services, and its Vision to grow and prosper as an independent, employee‑owned company, becoming better human beings in the process.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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