Senior Manager R&D - IP&SS Design Development - Mechanical

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* Job Description:

**** Senior Manager R&D - IP&SS Design Development - Mechanical
** 3M Health Care is now Solventum At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best.

Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.
** The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
** As a Senior Manager R&D - IP&SS Design Development - Mechanical you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:
* Leading a team of R&D Design Development Mechanical engineers and scientists developing products across the Vascular Access Solutions, Assurance & Monitoring Solutions, and Peri-Operative Surgical Solutions portfolios while:  + minimizing project uncertainty as early as feasible by clearly defining scope and product requirements, aligning program timing and resources with design capability to best fit within the product portfolio, and identifying new capabilities or capacities to develop internally or acquire externally  + developing component, subassembly, assembly, and product designs that are reliable and manufacturable  + working in concert with IP&SS R&D Product Development to maintain effective extended team resource allocation – to achieve committed deliverables  + identifying, planning, documenting, and executing design controls and risk management processes and procedures  + evaluating product functionality, performance, and safety through characterization, verification, and validation testing  + continuously evaluating selected designs to ensure they meet design input requirements and performance requirements while reducing project-, cost-, and timeline-risk and increasing certainty of business case attainment  + transferring technology design knowledge to Sustaining Engineering as products enter the market;

maintaining a role as technical subject matter experts to support Sustaining activities as needed
* Ensuring the health and vitality of our IP&SS new product development portfolio and products by:  + defining and implementing vision, culture, and development focus areas for the team and our people  + leading by example with a hands-on, player-coach approach  + fortifying medical design device rigor, empowering our team, driving accountability, and increasing engagement  + developing product and technology strategies – and guiding the implementation of them – to maintain viable product portfolios while ensuring inclusion of feature, process, and technology improvements that address unmet needs and improve customer satisfaction and patient outcomes  + contributing to organic…