Sr Product Manager

Sr.

Product Manager, Fresenius USA, Inc., a Fresenius Medical Care N.A.

company, Lawrence, Massachusetts

Responsible for ensuring that medical device design process addresses market needs.

Responsibilities include management and engineering activities, leading cross-functional teams through medical device development processes, from customer needs definition to commercialization.

Duties will include:



* Facilitate the design, collection and analysis of user research to identify customer needs and market requirements that will translate to inputs for the engineering team


* Leads cross-functional teams on product & engineering design and evaluation processes for new medical device product development projects from concept to product launch.


* Serves as product engineering subject matter expert, providing guidance and/or design expertise to other functional areas;


* Leads complex medical device product engineering and development projects across all phases of planning, implementation, and production readiness up to commercialization.


* Ensures that project development plans, processes and activities address relevant engineering process and user requirements to maximize product usability, quality and use-related safety.


* Participate in collaborative discussions on engineering processes and impact, across all the functional areas (R&D, Marketing, QA/QC, Regulatory, Clinical, Operations, Service and others) as needed to ensure successful project completion and delivery.


* Creates, optimizes, and drives structured product engineering roadmaps and plans.

Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing conditions or data.


* Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks; proposes and drives appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.


* Prepares product dashboard and communicates cross-functional progress clearly across organizational boundaries and levels from individual contributor to senior executive.


* Plans resource requirements and negotiates Core Team resources with R&D functional managers; seeks to control costs and maximize efficiencies.


* Leads teams to define and prioritize product engineering scope, objectives, and requirements and ensures compliance to applicable standards and guidance.


* Develop future product engineering strategies that support future product launches leveraging on existing cross-functional team.

Requirements:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Industrial Engineering, Human Factors Engineering or a closely related field and 3 years of experience as a Human Factors Engineer.

Must also have had 3 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement) working with the following:


* New product development in the healthcare/medical device sector;



* Converting customer requiremen...