Team Lead Project Management (m/f/d)
Full-time/part-time (min. 35 hours/week) | In Dresden | On site with the option of mobile working
Are you an experienced project manager ready to lead complex, cross-functional development projects from concept to launch while ensuring regulatory compliance?
Do you have a proven track record in managing project portfolios, balancing priorities, and driving process improvements in a regulated environment (MDR/IVDR, FDA, ISO 13485)?
Are you a proactive leader who can mentor and develop a high-performing project management team while effectively collaborating with stakeholders across R&D, QA/RA, and business units?
Then you're exactly who we're looking for!
Your tasks
- Project Portfolio Management
- Manage and oversee cross-functional development projects across the full lifecycle
- Monitor progress, risks, budgets, timelines, and resource utilization
- Prioritize and balance the project portfolio in line with business strategy
- Act as escalation point for project risks, compliance issues, and cross-functional conflicts
- Ensure transparent communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Processes & Methodology Development
- Continuously improve and standardize project management processes within a regulated environment
- Apply classic, agile, or hybrid development approaches as appropriate
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and standards (e.g. MDR/IVDR, FDA, ISO 13485)
- Align project execution with design control, risk management, and quality system requirements
- Project Leadership
- Lead complex, interdisciplinary development projects from concept to market launch
- Manage risks, dependencies, and resource constraints
- Collaborate closely with R&D and QA/RA leaders to ensure alignment and regulatory readiness
- Prepare and present project status updates to steering committees
- Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop the project management team
- Allocate and plan resources across the project portfolio
- Support hiring, performance management, and team development
- Represent management decisions to the team and the team to internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure adherence to company processes and manage team-related budgets and forecasts
Your profile
- Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field
- Proven experience managing interdisciplinary development projects
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (classic, agile, hybrid)
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Structured, documentation-oriented working style
- Proactive, reliable, and organized leadership approach
- Collaborative, solution-oriented mindset
- Business-oriented thinking with solid technical and regulatory understanding
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in English (mandatory) and German (advantageous)
- Experience in leading, developing, and mentoring project management teams would be advantageous
- Strong planning, risk management, and problem-solving skills are desirable
- Ability to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and regulatory constraints is a plus
- Solid understanding of regulated product development and quality management systems (e.g., MDR/IVDR, FDA, ISO 13485) would be beneficial
Your Benefits
- Exciting projects & responsibility from day one
- 30 days of paid vacation & MyFlexTime for extra time off
- Flexible working hours & mobile office option
- One team day per half-year, complemented by company events throughout the year to strengthen team spirit
- Competitive salary & employer contribution to the company pension scheme
- Interdisciplinary collaboration and professional development opportunities within a passionate team working to revolutionize the medical market
- Unlimited: up to 2 consecutive care days in case of illness for you and your children
- 50€ subsidy for the JobTicket, also available as a DeutschlandTicket
- Modern office space with state-of-the-art infrastructure and ergonomic sit/stand workstations
- Free water, fruit & coffee specialities
Contact person
Eva Brunner
e-mail jobs@anvajo.com
phone +49 (0) 351 8547 8403
mobile +49 (0) 151 1434 4922
About Us
anvajo enables access to laboratory diagnostics – for everyone, everywhere and anytime. We are a German MedTech company that develops point-of-care devices for the fast, reliable and cost-effective analysis of liquids, the so-called fluidlabs. Digital holographic microscopy and a compact spectrometer are key enabler of our fluidlabs. Our vision: a world with better healthcare, in which diseases in humans and animals can be recognized more quickly, therapies can be developed more efficiently, and their progression can be tracked more precisely.