R&D Manager

Becton Dickinson; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

BD is seeking a seasoned engineering leader to build and scale the Sustaining Engineering team in Bengaluru. You will guide project planning, budgeting, resourcing, and process excellence across cross-functional groups and ensure on-time delivery of programs in a regulated medical device environment.

You will mentor associates, drive talent development, and foster an innovative culture while maintaining strong adherence to quality and change-control practices that BD requires.

Qualifications

• Medical Device/pharma industry experience
• Minimum 4 years leading product development teams (20+ members)
• Minimum 4 years leading teams (5+ members) performing design verification testing
• Ability to recruit, build talent and nurture teams in regulated environments
• Guide and mentor teams in CAD/CAE tools; expertise in DMAIC/DFSS
• Understanding of design tools in requirement flow-down, tolerance analyses, FMEA, SPC

Responsibilities

• Lead the sustaining engineering projects and personnel.
• Develop and monitor cross-functional project plans and ensure quality and accuracy.
• Develop detailed budgets and manage spend against plans.
• Align resources across functions to optimize project success.
• Ensure processes are followed for timely engagement of other BD units.
• Foster innovation and empower the team to achieve best outcomes.

Skills

Team leadership

Cross-functional

Project management

Quality systems

Design control

Statistical analysis

CAD/CAE tools

Communication

Regulated environment

Mentoring

Tools

SolidWorks

R

MINITAB

SPSS

Stata

Job description

Job Summary

• Build the BD Specimen Management TCI sustaining engineering team through effective selection, organizational, and development of highly skilled engineers.
• Manage sustaining engineering projects and personnel including engineers and technicians.

Organizational Management

• Project planning: Ensure quality and accuracy of integrated project plans encompassing all cross-functional activities. Engage in detailed review of cross-functional plans and be accountable for their success.
• Project management: Ensure comprehensive and effective project plans are developed and actively monitor progress against plans. Monitor timely delivery of all project deliverables as specified in the plans.
• Budgeting: Develop detailed budgets in accordance with project and department plans, and business objectives. Manage budget diligently and be accountable to perform to the budget.
• Resourcing: Align dedicated and shared resources cross-functionally to optimize and ensure success of sustaining engineering projects.
• Process effectiveness: Ensure appropriate processes are followed for effective and timely engagement of other parts of the company in project activities.
• Innovation: Develop and apply innovative approaches to ensure best outcomes in all aspects of the role. Create an environment in which innovation can flourish through empowerment, encouragement, and support.

Organizational Development

• Associate development: Actively develop and mentor associates. Provide frequent feedback. Be accountable for their success. Continue to raise the bar on the group and help associates rise to expectations.
• Human resource planning: Actively participate in human resource planning.
• Organization building: Develop a strong and deep leadership talent bench. Build a team with world-class expertise in sustaining engineering.
• Recruiting and talent retention: Establish a high bar for recruiting talent. Actively recruit best talent and design long-term career paths and development to attract and retain.
• Continuous learning: Develop an actively learning organization willing to take risks, systematically learning and applying new lessons.

Leadership

• Accountability: Demonstrate strong and clear accountability for the group s performance and delivery.
• RD communication: Conduct and encourage frequent formal and informal communication within the group to ensure full engagement and efficient operation.
• Influence others: Intuitively and quickly assess people and situations and act accordingly. Demonstrate strong persuasion and timing skills. Remain open to be persuaded when appropriate.
• Inclusive work environment: Promote and leverage diversity to achieve best outcomes. Ensure all interested parties have opportunities to influence and contribute to decisions and outcomes.
• Leadership courage: Demonstrate and promote leadership courage by doing what is right. Engage those who disagree to persuade or be persuaded. Instil confidence in associates and customers.
• Dealing with ambiguity: Demonstrate agility and action orientation when facing change and uncertainty. Effectively manage change and instil confidence

Functional Excellence

• Establish RD best practices such as design control documentation, design V/V strategy and overall technical excellence for change control projects across LSM and SA platforms. RD approver of all technical documentation and reviews.
• Facilitate effective communication between RD and other stakeholders between FLKS and TCI for timely execution of sustaining projects. Point of contact for escalation.
• Ensure compliance with BD quality policies, procedures, and practices through appropriate communication, training, and education of sound quality assurance principles. Responsible for C2C assignment for all SM RD associates.

Knowledge

• 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 verification testing, including creation/execution of test protocols and procedure, conducting failure investigations, 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 solid works and other CAD/CAE tools, expertise in DMAIC/DFSS using Stata, R, SPSS or relevant statistical package is necessary.
• In-depth understanding of various design tools used in requirement flow-down, tolerance analyses, loop-equations, FMEA, SPC and risk-retirement is required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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.
• Strong communication skills.
• 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.
• Strong fit with BD values.

Location

Bengaluru, India

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