R&D Manager

Overview

Lead the BD Specimen Management TCI sustaining engineering team, managing sustaining engineering projects and personnel and serving as R&D approver and escalation point for change control projects.

What you'll do

• Build the BD Specimen Management TCI sustaining engineering team through effective selection, organization and development of highly skilled engineers.
• Manage sustaining engineering projects and personnel, including engineers and technicians.
• Ensure compliance with BD quality policies, procedures and practices through communication, training and education of sound quality assurance principles.
• Ensure compliance with all local, state, federal and BD safety regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ensure quality and accuracy of integrated project plans, review cross-functional plans and be accountable for their success.
• Monitor project progress against plans and timely delivery of all project deliverables.
• Develop detailed budgets in accordance with project and department plans and business objectives, and manage budget diligently.
• Align dedicated and shared resources cross-functionally to optimize and ensure success of sustaining engineering projects.
• Ensure appropriate processes are followed for effective and timely engagement of other parts of the company in project activities.
• Develop and apply innovative approaches to ensure best outcomes and create an environment in which innovation can flourish.
• Actively develop and mentor associates, provide frequent feedback and be accountable for their success.
• Actively participate in human resource planning and develop a strong, deep leadership talent bench with world-class sustaining engineering expertise.
• Establish a high bar for recruiting talent, actively recruit the best talent and design long-term career paths and development to attract and retain.
• Develop an actively learning organization willing to take risks and systematically learn and apply new lessons.
• Demonstrate strong and clear accountability for the group's performance and delivery.
• Conduct and encourage frequent formal and informal communication within the group.
• Promote and leverage diversity and ensure all interested parties can influence and contribute to decisions and outcomes.
• Establish R&D best practices such as design control documentation, design V/V strategy and overall technical excellence for change control projects across LSM and SA platforms.
• Serve as R&D approver of all technical documentation and reviews.
• Facilitate effective communication between R&D and other stakeholders between FLKS and TCI for timely execution of sustaining projects, and serve as point of contact for escalation.
• Responsible for C2C assignment for all SM R&D associates.

What you'll need

• Knowledge of the medical device and/or pharmaceutical industries.
• Minimum 4 years of experience directly leading product development teams (20+ members) in a cross-functional environment.
• Minimum 4 years of leading teams (5+ members) performing design and verification testing, including creation and execution of test protocols and procedures, conducting failure investigations, and performing data analyses using MINITAB, STATISTICA, R or other statistical software.
• Proven ability to recruit, build talent and nurture teams through various milestones in a regulated environment to deliver designs on time, at cost and with quality.
• Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor teams in SolidWorks and other CAD/CAE tools.
• Expertise in DMAIC/DFSS using Stata, R, SPSS or relevant statistical package is necessary.
• In-depth understanding of design tools used in requirement flow-down, tolerance analyses, loop-equations, FMEA, SPC and risk-retirement is required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational leadership skills.
• Strong interpersonal and influence skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
• Strong cross-functional project leadership skills.
• Strong technical and managerial judgment.
• Team orientation.
• Strong skills in project planning and management.
• Broad and deep understanding of disciplined change control processes, regulatory and quality requirements.
• Strong motivational fit and strong fit with BD values.

Details

• Primary work location: Bengaluru, India (Technology Campus).