Program Manager R&D

embecta is a global diabetes care company that is leveraging its 100-year legacy in insulin delivery to empower people with diabetes to live their best life through innovative solutions, partnerships and the passion of more than 2,000 employees around the globe. For more information, visit embecta.com or follow our social channels on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X.

Why join us?

A career at embecta means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that empowers you to bring your authentic self to work. Here our employees can fulfill their life’s purpose through the work that they do every day.

You will learn and work alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. Our Total Rewards program – which includes competitive pay, benefits, continuous learning, recognition, career growth and life balance components – is designed to support the varying needs of our diverse and global employees.

We’re seeking an experienced and talented Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams in driving both sustaining and new product development projects for injection systems. This role requires expertise in programs within a regulated environment, ensuring timely, cost-effective delivery while aligning with strategic roadmaps.

Responsibilities

Manage sustaining and new product development projects:

Coordinate day-to-day injection project and portfolio execution and manage cross functional teams

Operate at all necessary levels of development planning according to project-specific needs, including prioritizing development actions; coordinate prioritization with roadmap and marketing activities as well as integrating input from customers and development partners.

Provide input and decision making on development process, including project artifacts and development/test operations, tools, and continuous improvement

Drive Operational Excellence:

Defines the risks of projects (e.g. specs, costs, planning) and develops scenarios to overcome these risks

Directs associates and gives them operational guidance

Implementation and realization according to the project plan (specification, quality, time, money, information) and organization

Reports on the progress of the project with an agreed frequency on quality, status, time, and costs to senior management and to project members

Ensures that there is an effective transfer and archiving of the project results and the associated knowledge

Achieve a highly predicable integration project schedule and ensure team member accountability

Reports on associates’ performance to the hierarchical superior of the employees for the purpose of appraisal

Maintain a climate of trust, openness, honesty and objectivity and role models a can-do mentality

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline, Masters preferred

PMP certification a plus

5 + years of direct project and program management experience, schedule management (including tools, such as MS Project, Celoxis, Monday.com, Azure DevOps or equivalent) in a regulated Design Control environment

Experience with managing Class I, II or III medical device projects

Demonstrated experience in managing development performance

Experience leading cross-functional team meetings across geographies, management updates and internal development review meetings

Experience in creating and monitoring metrics and reporting dashboardsFixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

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