Senior Program Manager

Qufora; Lillerød; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qufora, a fast-growing medical device company, seeks a Senior Program Manager to strengthen execution across major development initiatives. You will lead the Portfolio Group, manage intake, prioritisation, and an integrated program view across projects, while personally steering one large strategic project from development to launch.

Based at HQ in Allerød, near Copenhagen, you will collaborate with senior management and multiple functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master level in engineering, business, life sciences or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate Portfolio Group with governance for intake, assessment, prioritisation and decisions.
• Own intake process: assess business need, strategic fit, value, urgency, risks, dependencies and capacity before prioritisation.
• Develop prioritisation and sequencing proposals with management and functions for a visible portfolio view.
• Establish integrated program view across related projects with objectives, milestones, risks and outcomes.
• Align with project managers; ensure plans connect and decisions occur at the right level.
• Identify cross-project risks and dependencies; coordinate resolution and escalate when needed.
• Lead large, strategic projects from scope to delivery with accountability for budget and stakeholders.

Skills

Portfolio management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic project leadership

Program governance

English proficiency

Education

BSc or MSc in engineering, business, life sciences

Job description

Senior Program Manager

Role: Portfolio, program and strategic project leadership

Can you turn business needs into clear portfolio priorities—and connect strategic direction with disciplined execution across complex, interdependent projects?

Qufora is a fast-growing, design-focused medical device company. We enable people with chronic bowel disorders to live a more fulfilled life by developing intuitive products that make everyday routines easier. We are now looking for a Senior Program Manager to strengthen the execution of our most important development initiatives.

The position combines three closely connected responsibilities. You will lead Qufora’s Portfolio Group and the intake and prioritisation of new and existing initiatives, creating a transparent basis for portfolio decisions. As Program Manager, you will then establish the integrated view across major projects with shared objectives and dependencies, translate priorities into direction, align the individual project managers and follow progress, risks and decisions at an operational level. Resource planning and day-to-day team management will primarily remain within the individual projects; your focus will be on the cross-project picture, conflicts, dependencies and decisions needed to keep the overall program moving.

At the same time, you will personally lead one large, strategically important project through development to launch. You will work closely with senior management, project managers and colleagues across Product Development, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Marketing, Supply Chain and external partners. The role is based at our headquarters in Allerød, north of Copenhagen.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate Qufora’s Portfolio Group and establish a clear governance rhythm for portfolio intake, assessment, prioritisation and decisions.
• Own a transparent intake process, ensuring that business need, strategic fit, expected value, urgency, risks, dependencies and capacity implications are understood before prioritisation.
• Develop prioritisation and sequencing proposals with senior management and relevant functions, and maintain a visible, decision-ready view of the active portfolio and pipeline.
• Establish and maintain the integrated program view across related projects, including objectives, milestones, critical dependencies, key decisions, risks and expected business outcomes.
• Align with the individual project managers and facilitate practical program governance, ensuring that plans connect, commitments are realistic and decisions or escalations happen at the right level.
• Identify cross-project risks, conflicts and capacity constraints early, coordinate resolution and **escalate** where management decisions are required.
• Protect overall program outcomes when individual project priorities compete, while respecting that detailed resource planning and team leadership primarily sit within the projects.
• Lead large, strategically important projects with full accountability for scope, plan, budget, risks, stakeholders, decisions and delivery.
• Build strong cross-functional teams, clarify roles and decision rights, and ensure that plans incorporate relevant design control, regulatory, clinical, quality and commercial deliverables.
• Continuously improve portfolio, program and project execution through simple, scalable standards for intake, planning, status, risks, decisions and lessons learned.

Your experience and qualifications

• A relevant BSc or MSc degree in engineering, business, life sciences or a comparable discipline.
• Typically 8+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects, including experience with portfolio governance, intake and prioritisation and/or coordinating multiple related projects as a program.
• A strong track record of delivering large, strategically important initiatives with significant organisational complexity and senior stakeholder attention.
• Demonstrated ability to assess and prioritise initiatives and to manage dependencies, critical paths, risks, budgets, decisions and governance across organisational boundaries.
• Experience working effectively through project managers and workstream leads without taking over their day-to-day responsibilities.
• Strong business understanding and the ability to connect strategic objectives, customer or patient needs and operational project choices.
• Experience from medical devices, pharmaceuticals or another regulated product-development environment is strongly preferred.
• Understanding medical-device development and design control, including the interaction between R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Operations and commercial functions, is an advantage.
• Formal project or program management training or certification, such as PMI/PMP, MSP or PRINCE2, is an advantage but not a requirement.
• Professional proficiency in English. Danish is an advantage, as much of the daily collaboration takes place in a Danish-speaking environment.

How you work

You create structure in complexity and remain calm when priorities shift, and many issues compete for attention. You can move comfortably between the strategic overview and detailed operational follow-up, knowing when to challenge, when to facilitate and when to escape. You communicate clearly, build trust across functions and turn ambiguity into explicit choices and practical next steps. Most importantly, you take ownership and follow through until decisions are made and outcomes are delivered.

What Qufora offers

You will join an inclusive, creative and open workplace with dedicated colleagues who care deeply about improving quality of life for our users. We offer an ambitious development environment where you will have significant influence on how Qufora prioritises and executes its most important initiatives - and where your work will directly support the delivery of safe, intuitive products to patients and healthcare professionals.