Sr. Program Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

Duties And Responsibilities

• Demonstrates program management standard methodologies and contributes to improving processes

• Leads the team to prepare for Phase Gate and other Go/No-Go decisions by executive leadership, ensuring that decisions are advised by a balanced and clearly articulated representation of the relevant data.

• Ensures alignment of product value proposition, program scope, and strategic business objectives.

• Leads program planning process ensuring requirements are clear and driven by customer need and experience.

• Defines, delegates, and evaluates the roles, responsibilities, goals and deliverables for core and extended team members.

• Manages internal teams and external vendors and partnerships.

• Independently determines and pursues courses of action vital to obtain desired results.

• Communicates program updates to functional management and executive leadership.

• Defines program resource needs and negotiates program resourcing plans.

• Leads key technical design and commercial excellence reviews, constructively challenging the team and the organization to rethink assumptions and approach headwinds in new ways.

• Leads cross-functional teams through problem resolution including root cause analysis and corrective action.

• Analyzes data and sophisticated situations involving evaluation of tangible variables to programs or collective system of projects.

• Work with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate Core Team resources are committed to the projects and contribute to required performance levels.

• Ensure effective and efficient regular formal and informal communications with the Core Teams using a variety of tools and channels.

• Lead, direct, coach, and mentor Team Members to maximize project success.

• Provide meaningful and significant feedback to functional leaders regarding the performance of Core Team members that is considered in annual performance evaluations.

• Lead product development utilizing a multitude of processes such as BD's Global Product Delivery System, Voice of the Customer/Business, Project Management, and Agile.

• Ensure programs align with company quality management systems.

• Builds high morale and ensure the team commits to goals and objectives by creating a common purpose and direction.

• Suggests opportunities for improvement that have a significant impact (cost, cycle time, quality, etc.) and assists in developing or executing implementation plan.

• Lives and promotes the BD values.

Demonstrates proficiency in the following competency areas:

• Project & Cross-Functional Leadership - possesses the skills, knowledge and aptitude to engage, influence, and advise all functions involved in the development of the assigned product.

• Managerial - ability to manage product development teams effectively. This includes the management of internal teams and external vendors and partnerships

• Optimized Execution and Performance - advances long-term growth while consistently meeting or exceeding near-term business performance expectations.

• Personal Effectiveness - ability to work effectively within the project cross-functional organization.

• Business Excellence - ability to effectively apply business, financial and commercial knowledge to successfully deliver of the product development outcomes

• In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD), FDA Regulations and Compliance

Experience Required

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated self-starter, and highly motivated.

• Holds understanding of technical/scientific principles that relate to immune oncology.

• Experience of developing IVD products in the U.S. and/or EU and/or rest of the world.

• Demonstrates excellence in both oral and written communication, in cross functional, and cross- cultural environment.

Skills & Certifications

• Ability to interact with executive leadership, highlight issues and provide options and solutions for resolution.

• Demonstrates ability to be effective in sophisticated projects with ambiguity and/or rapid change.

• Multiplexes well to prioritize multiple tasks and schedule work to meet business needs.

• Recognizing problems and using analytical problem skills to resolve.

• Demonstrates…