(Senior) R&D Project / Program Manager

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Company Description:

Spiden is a Swiss MedTech venture, based in Pfäffikon (SZ), with the vision to use state-of-the-art detection techniques to continuously monitor and learn from a wide range of vital medical indicators, allowing to improve your individual health.

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled R&D project/program manager with a strong background in medical devices, affinity for technology and the will to start a career on the edge of medicine and technology. As we are a start-up, drive and passion for what we work towards, has to be a given.

Are you ready to make a real impact and ultimately save lives?

Role:

The Project Manager is the point person to lead cross-functional core teams, and to represent them to the various stakeholders. (S)he will provide guidance to cross-functional teams in applying Lean and Agile practices within a development context.

The Project Manager remains closely aligned to senior management (CEO, CSO, CTO, CAO, VP Strategy) to ensure effective and efficient collaboration and communication. This leader will be a key contributor to developing a high performing product development organization. (S)he will be directly accountable for building Spiden’s future Program Management Office.

Objectives:

• Facilitate teamwork and collaboration to deliver results per customer requirements
• Be the voice of the teams; inspire and motivate team members to continuously improve ways of working
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders on planning events, demonstrations, and retrospectives
• Guide teams in decomposing complex work items to enable Agile team backlogs
• Build and maintain the backlogs in collaboration with product management
• Deploy metric-based progress tracking
• Train and coach cross-functional teams in Agile product development methodologies
• Build Spiden’s Program Management function: Identify needed skills and competences, establish a hiring roadmap, identify and hire suitable talent

Project manager must haves

• Personality: highly reliable and committed to deadlines, very execution oriented
• Skill: ability to influence organisation towards high adherence to execution plan - very good at situational leadership btw. supporting coach and beating the drums or escalation
• Had lead and completed cross-functional/cross-domain core teamsover multiple years and projects of >5mCHF,
• Has ideally lead multiple project managers (solid lines)
• Has formal project management certifications (PMP, Agile, SAFe, etc.) and has implemented such in organisation before
• Has ideally worked in medtech/pharma or similar, ideally driving cross-functional high tech innovation projects

Experience:

• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline
• 5+ years of physical product development and project management experience with demonstrated success leading global teams
• Current Project Management Certification - Agile and Waterfall (PMI, IPMA, SAFe, CSPO, and similar)
• Expert knowledge in SAFe Agile, SCRUM, or related frameworks and methodologies, applied to physical product development
• Desired: Experience in applying ISO 13485 and FDA QS Regulation 21 CFR Part 820 to new product development