Director, Strategic Program Management

Director, Strategic Program Management will focus on managing and coordinating all elements for the emerging GLP-1 product category, both Retail (Small Pack) and B-to-B (Bulk Pack ).  They will work with Business Leaders and Functional Leaders to ensure smooth integration of these products into our portfolio.Manage the different projects for GLP-1 Retail (small pack) and Business-to-Business (bulk pack) 

• Program Execution Management (from idea to Market) as a key member of the PMLT, ensuring alignment with the CLT
• Product development – design to commercialization
• Coordinate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure the readiness of new GLP-1 products to meet the needs of the business.
• Organize and manage all Scope, Schedule and Resources to be used, while adhering to the embecta Quality Management System (QMS).
• Operate at all necessary levels of the business according to project-specific needs, including prioritizing actions; coordinate prioritization with roadmaps as well as integrating input from customers and development partners.
•  Strategic Review preparation
• Strategic partnerships (including contracting and outsource partners)
• Provide input and decision making on processes, including continuous improvement
• Collaborating with key functional partners such as Marketing and Medical Affairs to drive innovation inside existing markets and identify new growth and portfolio opportunities.
• Working closely with R&D, Marketing, Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Legal, and Finance to ensure plans and strategies are integrated with broader business unit and company activities.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor Degree in an engineering discipline
• The successful candidate will have a proven record of product development and leadership in the medical device industry with a minimum of ten years of experience and at least five of those leading a complex product portfolio for a $1B+ business. S/he should be comfortable with the execution of all aspects of product development including design, development, verification and validation and other issues relevant to the final commercialized product.
• The candidate must have solid technical experience employing modern, lean product development methodologies across large multi-disciplinary teams.
• 5+ years of direct project or program management experience, schedule management (including tools, such as MS Project, Celoxis, in a regulated Design Control environment
• Experience with managing Class II or III device projects
• Experience with ERP and CRM systems is helpful
• Experience leading cross-functional team meetings, management updates and internal development review meetings

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Interpersonal skills to build and nurture strong relationships with cross-functional partners and external vendors
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, creates flexible strategies and adapts quickly to changing business environment
• Disciplined in assumption and metric-based decision making
• Exceptional quantitative, analytical, written, verbal skills
• Good clinical practices and product development compliance
• Solutions oriented; understands full product lifecycle management
• Drives the “crucial conversations” about identifying gaps in performance and confronting low/marginal performance

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