We are delighted to be supporting a leading multinational Medical Device Client with their search for a Senior R&D Program Manager to join their team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with innovative products. The successful candidate will be based on-site in Galway for a minimum of 4 days per week.
The Opportunity
This role offers the chance to become a cross-functional business leader, responsible for driving decision-making and execution within development projects.
You will be accountable for the product development cycle, building high-performing teams to deliver solutions for commercial release, while fostering collaboration and empowerment across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
1. Drive cross-functional core team and work directly with functional leaders, regional leaders, and extended teams to ensure clear communication of program objectives, deliverables, and timing of key milestones.
2. Lead team members for on-time, on-budget, within scope project completion, while managing stakeholder and business expectations.
3. Manage the product development budget and schedule.
4. Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills as leader of cross-functional teams across all development stages, from scope definition to cost management, schedule development and risk management.
5. Provide regular program updates to the CAS leadership team through program review committee meetings.
6. Mentor team members to ensure engagement and contribution to project success.
7. Champion product development best practices such as Voice of Customer inputs, early risk burn-down, and Design for Reliability and Manufacturability (DRM).
8. Travel requirement: 10-25%.
Key Skills & Experience
9. Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, OR an advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.
10. Advanced degree such as MS or MBA.
11. Medical device industry experience, including new product development, released product management, clinical trials, and regulatory submissions.
12. DRM Blackbelt certification.
13. Experience managing complex cross-department and/or cross-functional project teams.
14. Experience leading collaboratively in a diverse, global, matrixed organization.