Package:
1. Full Time / Permanent
2. €110k – €125k+ Basic
3. Annual Bonus
4. Health Insurance
5. Pension
6. Life Assurance
7. Canteen
8. Paid Annual Leave (24 Days Plus Public Holidays)
9. Relocation Package (€)
Role:
The Senior R&D 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 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 is a highly visible leadership role with direct interaction across functional and executive leadership, requiring strong leadership, systems thinking, technical depth and effective communication. This role is ideal for someone who brings both operational discipline and strategic fluency, someone who can orchestrate teams, clarify trade-offs, and anticipate challenges long before they materialize.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Deliver Strategic Outcomes Across a Range of Programs:
10. Translate innovation ambition and strategic goals into a portfolio-aligned program roadmap
11. Ensure programs deliver meaningful customer experience, clinical value, and business results
12. Shape scope, priorities, and sequencing to maximize impact across the portfolio
Orchestrate Cross-Functional Teams Through Complexity:
13. Lead multifunctional teams (Engineering, Operations, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Marketing) around one integrated plan
14. Bring discipline to interdependency management, resource alignment, and risk mitigation
15. Be the integrator who makes the whole system work
16. Build robust plans with clear critical paths, decision gates, and scenario models
17. Surface risks early, with data and recommended actions
18. Ensure teams do not drift; ensure leaders are not surprised
Elevate Decision Quality:
19. Provide concise, evidence-based insights to guide trade-offs
20. Identify structural issues that impact timing, cost, or technical feasibility
21. Drive closure through decisions made, actions owned, timelines defended
Influence Up, Down, and Across:
22. Communicate program narratives with authority and clarity
23. Coach project managers and engineers on execution discipline and risk-thinking
Experience:
24. Third Level Degree (Hon) in Mechanical / Engineering / Science
25. An MBA, Business Degree, Project Management Qualification a plus
26. 15-20 Years commercial experience in a R&D role (Medical Device Industry)
27. Strong Project Management experience is required, preferably in Medical Devices or other Regulated Industry
28. Proven ability to manage and lead multi-functional teams to drive success of a project
Skills Matrix:
29. Focused on Enterprise Value
30. Leads with clarity Simplifies complexity and brings alignment where there was noise
31. Makes the hard calls Frames trade-offs and drives decisions with confidence
32. Delivers consistently Predictable results, even in unpredictable environments
33. Demonstrated success managing interdependent projects across technical and commercial domains
34. Strong systems-thinking and risk-management capabilities
35. Professional PM Certification Project Management Professional [PMP] or equivalent
36. Experience in regulatory environments (21 CFR, QSR 830, ISO 13485:2003, ISO 14971, Risk Management)