Veranex’s mission as an Innovation CRO is to improve patient outcomes by accelerating our clients’ innovations to market. As the world’s only end-to-end professional services firm focused on MedTech, we take clients’ Vision to Velocity through our comprehensive service portfolio, with expertise in human centered design and product development, preclinical and clinical research, regulatory affairs, and market access and reimbursement consulting.

About This Role:

Veranex has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Product Development Program Manager. You will be part of a team working to improve lives globally through medical technology innovation.

The Senior Product Development Program Manager is responsible for managing and executing product development program direction in accordance with the client and development team goals. Manages a variety of programs and leads various disciplines in executing the required deliverables in the design and development of medical devices.

What You Will Do:

• Manages the maintenance of an overall client program, coordinating all aspects of program activities.
• Monitors internal resources to ensure all products are developed within cost targets and delivered on schedule.
• Develops and maintains schedule, ensures schedule has been reviewed and submitted to management.
• Submits weekly product development project status to management and/or client.
  
• Advocates and maintains appropriate interdisciplinary resource loadings needed to maintain product development project deliverables, including budget and schedule. Ensures team members are accurately entering hours into the accounting system on a weekly basis.
  
• Maintains program oversight over all disciplines. Ensures individual discipline leaders are aware of client overall objectives and the responsibilities to their responsibilities to the specific programs. Escalates issues as appropriate to higher level management.
  
• Develops appropriate presentations of activities during each phase of the program. Ensures each presentation is reviewed by senior management prior to submitting to client.
  
• Conducts post-mortem with team members and senior management on each phase during the project.

• Drafts and reviews program proposals advising on approach and appropriateness of the budget and resource estimates. Manages out of scope work approval process.
• Submits weekly project status dashboards to internal management and/or client.
• Manages invoicing and reviews/approves billable hour descriptions to ensure complete within established timeframe.
• Provides leadership, training, guidance, and support to program management team.

Qualifications:

Required skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in product development related discipline
• 7-10 years of relevant work experience in the medical device industry or related field.
• Knowledge of overall medical device industry
• Strong knowledge of the professional services industry and management of customers
• Strong understanding of design and document controls, design verification and validation, hazard analysis techniques, regulatory approval methods
• Understanding of mechanical engineering development processes
• Understanding of electronics and software development
• Familiarity in the design of complex medical capital equipment and disposable devices
• Sound program management skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with project team and client
• Ability to multi-task and perform a wide range of activities
• Ability to work under a timeline
• Good ability to work in cross-functional teams

Veranex is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion or belief, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or gender expression), sexual orientation, parental or marital status, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, national, social, or ethnic origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.