Product Development Project Lead

Coloplast; Humlebæk; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Coloplast in Humlebaek, Denmark, is seeking an experienced Product Development Project Manager to lead the Product Development workstream across cross-functional development projects. You translate scope into deliverables and drive high-quality technical outcomes.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing Development, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and other functions, build a multidisciplinary team, manage risks, and ensure on-time launch readiness while upholding Design Control and

Qualifications

• Five years of experience leading technical or product-development projects in an R&D environment.
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in engineering, materials science, design, innovation or another relevant technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading a technical workstream or multidisciplinary development team.
• Experience taking products through concept development, detailed development, verification and transfer into manufacturing.
• Strong capabilities in project planning, risk management, dependency management and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to make and communicate trade-offs across product performance, quality, manufacturability, sustainability, time and cost.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Experience from medical devices, pharmaceuticals or another regulated industry is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Product Development workstream from early development through design verification, design transfer and launch readiness.
• Translate the agreed project scope into clear Product Development deliverables, milestones, dependencies and decision points.
• Establish and maintain the Product Development workstream plan and integrate it with the overall project plan.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team spanning relevant Product Development disciplines.
• Create clear ownership of deliverables and actively manage workstream risks, issues and critical dependencies.
• Drive timely decisions within the Product Development mandate, making technical recommendations, assumptions and trade‑offs visible.
• Ensure that Product Development deliverables are completed at the required level of quality and maturity, including relevant product concepts, designs, requirements, specifications, verification evidence and Design Control documentation.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing Development to integrate product design, Design for Manufacturing and manufacturing‑readiness activities from the outset.
• Forecast resource and OPEX needs, align capacity with Product Development line managers and make resource constraints and consequences transparent.
• Communicate progress, risks, decisions and recommendations clearly to the project or program organization and other relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to strengthening project‑management excellence and ways of working across Product Development.

Skills

Project leadership

R&D project management

Cross-functional collaboration

English fluency

Stakeholder communication

Education

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline

Job description

Coloplast in Humlebaek, Denmark, is seeking an experienced Product Development Project Manager to lead the Product Development workstream across cross-functional development projects. You translate scope into deliverables and drive high-quality technical outcomes.

You will collaborate with Manufacturing Development, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and other functions, build a multidisciplinary team, manage risks, and ensure on-time launch readiness while upholding Design Control and