Associate Director, NPD Program Management

Cypress HCM; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cypress HCM is seeking an NPD Program Manager for a direct hire position in Salt Lake City, Utah. This role involves leading a cross-functional NPD team focused on innovative medical device development. The ideal candidate should have at least 10 years of experience in product development and a strong background in managing Class II medical devices. Responsibilities include project execution, mentoring team members, and resolving complex technical challenges.

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience in medical device product development and design.
• 3+ years leading global cross-functional teams on complex projects.
• Experience with Class II medical devices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects on-time through predictable execution.
• Mentor and coach core team members and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure timely delivery and approvals.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Technical Communication

Cross-functional Collaboration

Agile Methodologies

Job description

A global leader in the Medical Device industry is looking to add a direct hire, NPD Program Manager onsite in Salt Lake City. This high visibility position will be responsible for leading and motivating a large scale cross-functional NPD team of high complexity within the AAD Platform. This person should have strong records of professional achievement and have the capacity and desire for continuous development and growth. This company is committed to maintaining its accelerated growth through portfolio diversification, differentiated offerings and geographic / market expansions, while maintaining the profitability of the core product lines. The NPD Program Manager will manage a healthy portfolio of programs ranging from incremental innovation to disruptive & breakthrough opportunities enabling medication delivery solutions.

Responsibilities

• Delivers projects on-time through predictable and transparent execution.
• Serving as an agile problem solver, master negotiator, motivational coach, product development process expert, prudent risk taker, and team champion.
• Influences solutions and works to resolve business and/or technical problems at all levels of the organization.
• Finds and creates new avenues of excellence. Self-starting and will take action without prompting or direction from others to solve problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery, review and approvals via multiple regional registrations in addition to other conflicting/dependent programs.
• Responsible for the execution, quality, and results of the projects and the success of the resulting products for the business or in the market.
• Interact with functional managers and business leaders to communicate critical project risks, mitigations, questions and/or challenges.
• Define program resource needs and negotiate program resourcing plans. Work with functional leaders to ensure the appropriate core team resources are committed to the program and contribute to the required performance levels.
• Mentor, coach and challenge core team members, functional leaders and business leaders regarding functional and cross functional strategies and approaches to improve program development outcomes.
• Analyze development situations and data with in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
• Influence solutions to business or technical problems.
• Communicate and implement the strategic and technical direction for the project/program teams.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of business, market growth drivers and trends, influences business case development.

Requirements

• 10 years’ of relevant experience in medical device product development and design
• 3+ years of experience leading medical device cross-functional, global teams through complex projects or programs
• New product development experience with Class II medical devices
• Successful launch experience of medical device products from concept through launch
• Ability to develop technical and business process solutions to complex problems
• Knowledge of global medical device regulatory requirements (FDA, Anvisa, NMPA, MDR) and quality standards (ISO, GB, JISC)
• Complete understanding of medical device project management principles, theories & concepts
• Thorough understanding of all functional workstreams in a phase gate process and a vision of an integrated project plan.
• Experience with creating work breakdown structures, risk management, and integrated business plans
• Thorough understanding of functional work streams in a phase gate process
• Experience in medical device product development planning, risk identification, and timeline optimization
• A strong, influential communicator who implements the strategic and technical direction for the project/program team.