Sr. Manager, MedTech Technology Product Lifecycle Management Platform

Sr. Manager, Med Tech Technology Product Lifecycle Management Platform

We are searching for the best talent for a Sr. Manager, Med Tech Technology Product Lifecycle Management Platform professional to be located in Raritan, NJ.

Position Summary:

The individual in this role owns the vision, strategy, and prioritization of the PLM platform level features to meet business and technical needs. Enable platform and product squads by driving technical delivery and value realization for Med Tech Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) globally.

As part of the Med Tech R&D Product Lifecycle domain, this role will work with business owners, product management, portfolio partners, architecture and suppliers in PLM and digitally connected domains to align the direction and solution intent while managing a multi-million-dollar budget.

This person will drive business value & outcomes related to Med Tech R&D PLM solutions and connected digital capabilities to enhance capabilities, insights, business process and automations for the Med Tech sector wide PLM platform.

This individual will deeply understand user needs and expected business value, delivering solutions that unlock efficiency and drive progress against critical metrics to improve Med Tech R&D, specifically in the domain of R&D PLM.

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Duties & Responsibilities:

• Visionary leader primarily response for platform/product strategy and ensure business value realization and outcomes
• Own end-to-end platform lifecycle activities including technical leadership driving the vision, strategy, prioritization, delivery, performance management for the platform, including Production Operations processes and services.
• Enable AI-driven and data-centric lifecycle processes across the ecosystem
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and standardization and reduce fragmentation across OpCos / legacy systems
• Cross-Functional alignment (product, Architecture, portfolio) and collaborate with Product Owners and Product/Platform Architects to build a technical backlog that optimizes business value in partnership with supporting teams
• Work in close partnership with the Platform Architect and technology counterparts to manage cross-team dependencies in roadmaps and backlog, refine technical backlog by leveraging product roadmaps and by anticipating functional and non-functional requirements while balancing business value and technical feasibility, cost and delivery timelines
• Strong vendor management and partnership with our suppliers and act as the expert in the field understanding latest tech trends in the space of PLM
• Drive the interaction model between the product & platform teams for short-, medium- and long-term business and technical needs. Maintain clear cadences, standards and best practices to ensure clarity and agreement of decision rights leading to empowered teams working with minimal friction.
• Ensure the PLM platform fits into the broader Enterprise Architecture guidelines and standards, e.g., APIs, security controls, approved technologies, data standards, etc. and maintain leading expertise on tech capabilities relevant to the platform
• Drive selection of platform solutions, e.g., CloudX strategy, including build vs. buy decision. Collaborate with Lead Engineers on the architecture of critical capabilities & solutions which balance constraints such as resiliency, cost, quality and time.
• Manage effort to build financial budgets and resource plans based on solution objectives, key deliverables and timing
• Accountable for PLM System Change Control, Risk Management Processes and related IT Procedures across the platform and products
• Drive continuous improvement across the platform and products through automation, insights & metrics, best practices, and coaching Product Owner & Product Managers on platform consumption best practices ensuring consistency across the platforms
• Engage in an Office Operations role to process onboarding and off-boarding of stable team resources. Implement necessary ISRM, GxP, SOX, Asset mgmt. and other (compliance) control processes.
• Manages a team of individual contributors and/or Supervisors and is accountable for conducting effective performance management.
• Responsib…