Senior Program Manager, Lab Specimen Mgmt

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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world, advancing health™ as our Purpose. We unite design, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing to transform ideas into solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

The Senior Program Manager will lead New Product Development (NPD) projects within the Lab Specimen Management Platform under the Specimen Management Business Group. This role is responsible for developing, organizing, and motivating a complex cross‑functional team—or a program with multiple projects—to deliver new products or enhance existing ones. The Senior Program Manager is ultimately accountable for project execution, quality, and results, as well as the success of the product in the market, including meeting defined strategic and financial objectives post‑launch.

• Responsible for creating project schedules, resource requirements, risk management plans, integrated business plans, and product requirements.
• Accountable for execution, quality, and results of assigned projects and overall product success in the market.
• Leads cross‑functional development of product architecture, synthesizes functional plans, and identifies critical interdependencies to ensure successful execution.
• Ensure alignment across product value proposition, program scope, and strategic business objectives.
• Lead program planning to ensure all requirements are clear and driven by market needs, customer insights, and experience.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, learning agility, and action orientation when facing uncertainty.
• Engage, influence, and direct all functions involved in product development to inspire and motivate cross‑functional teams toward achieving common goals.
• Constructively challenge team members and leaders to rethink assumptions and improve product development outcomes.
• Manage and guide daily activities of team members, track progress against plan, manage project budget, identify risks, and implement mitigation plans.
• Lead cross‑functional teams through problem resolution, including root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions.
• Communicate with functional managers and business leaders regarding critical project risks, questions, or challenges.
• Challenge core team members, functional leaders, and business leaders on strategies and approaches to improve product development outcomes.
• Interact across functions to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Bachelor's Degree in a science or engineering field.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience, including at least 5 years of relevant project management experience leading teams and new product development projects within a regulated industry.
• Experience in new product development (NPD), including planning multiple work streams, identifying risks, and implementing action plans to optimize timelines and reduce execution risk.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite tools Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams.
• Proven ability to establish customer requirements from defined specifications and translate them into product requirements.
• Ability to lead and drive the identification, validation, and mitigation planning of all project risks—technical, schedule, business, and resource—based on a thorough understanding of integrated project plans and work breakdown structures.
• Strong financial acumen with proven ability to develop and manage complex program budgets, perform cost‑benefit analyses, and forecast financial impacts throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Comprehensive understanding of all functional work streams in a phase‑gate process and the ability to develop and maintain an integrated project vision.
• Skilled in applying analytical, statistical, computational, and empirical methods to gain deep design insights and minimize development timelines.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences and convey complex technical/business issues concisely.
• Exceptional interpersonal and…