R&D Project Management Associate Director – GE, Post-Market & Lifecycle Management

R&D Project Management Associate Director – GE, Post-Market & Lifecycle Management

Job Category: Research and Development

Requisition Number: RDPRO
004821

• Posted :
  September 24, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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About Us

Founded in 1908, Merz is a successful, family-owned specialty healthcare company with a rich history. As a leading global aesthetics business, our award-winning portfolio of injectables, devices, and skincare products empowers healthcare professionals to enhance confidence through aesthetic medicine. Our purpose is to fuel confidence by helping people look better, feel better, and live better. We believe you do not have to choose between living life and making a living.

Live your best life with Merz Aesthetics.

A Brief Overview

As an R&D Project Management Associate Director, you will lead cross-functional project management activities supporting geographic expansion programs, lifecycle Design and Development File (DDF) maintenance, post-launch maintenance, Medical Affairs PMO projects and post-market clinical study commitments for commercialized products. This role reports to the Head of PMO for Merz Aesthetics and works within the PMO organization in Raleigh, North Carolina. This role ensures marketed products remain compliant, supported by appropriate design control documentation, and positioned for growth through geographic registrations and indication expansions.

The individual serves as a strategic project-management lead and best-practice resource across Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Quality, Global Technical Operations (GTOps), and Commercial teams to drive execution of post-launch R&D initiatives.

What You Will Do

• Geographic Expansion Project Management:
  • Lead strategic planning and execution of complex geographic expansion projects for commercialized products, including prioritizing project tasks, identifying the critical path, evaluating cross-functional dependencies, removing any obstacles or barriers, and resolving issues or conflicts to progress the project.
  • Lead and coordinate cross-functional feasibility assessments for new market registrations, indication expansions, and registration renewals; integrate regulatory, clinical, quality, technical, commercial, timeline resource, and risk considerations into recommendations for governance and decision-making.
  • Lead project-team governance, including setting decision-oriented agendas, facilitating resolution of cross-functional issues, documenting key decisions and accountabilities, and maintaining integrated project timelines, resource plans, risk registers, and other required project documentation.
  • Effectively lead, guide, and manage a team of cross functional resources to deliver the set project milestones supporting the required regulatory submissions and launches, including negotiating priorities, resource commitments, and corrective actions across functions.
  • Facilitate cross-functional alignment between regional, country, and global stakeholders throughout the expansion process by communicating complex issues, anticipating objections, reconciling competing priorities, and building consensus around recommended approaches.
  • Monitor project progress and independently resolve issues within the role's authority, escalating only the most complex, high-risk or strategically significant issues that may impact submission or approval or launch timelines.
  • Anticipate and manage project risks and issues, evaluate broader cross-functional implications, and develop and provide innovative mitigation, contingency, and corrective action strategies where precedent may be limited.
  • Prepare governance materials and present evidence-based recommendations, options, trade-offs, resource implications, and risk scenarios for leadership review and approval.
• Lifecycle DDF Management:
  • Lead and coordinate R&D-impacted lifecycle design control activities for marketed products, establishing integrated priorities, governance, and execution plans across affected functions.
  • Direct the cross-functional planning and governance of Design and Development Files updates resulting from post-market product changes, geographic expansions, post-market commitments, and regulatory changes, ensuring dependencies and business implications are identified and addressed.
  • Establish and monitor the integrated project approach required to ensure design control documentation remains complete, traceable, compliant, and inspection ready. Identify systemic gaps and recommend corrective or…