Senior NPI & Program Lead - Life Sciences Instruments

ProteinSimple; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits from V

401k with company match and ESPP

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Bio-Techne seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex NPI, sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives across Simple Western and Biologics products.

You will work with R&D, Systems, Mechanical, Software, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Product Management and Commercial teams to deliver instruments, consumables, reagents, and software from concept through launch and lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Life Sciences, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of technical project or program management experience in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, analytical instrumentation, or related industry.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent NPI programs and leading cross-functional teams through full product lifecycle.
• Experience collaborating with mechanical, electrical, software, systems, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and supply chain functions.
• Experience presenting project status, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex NPI, sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives across the ASD portfolio, with primary focus on Simple Western and Biologics.
• Drive cross-functional teams through product development, verification, validation, manufacturing transfer, launch, and post-launch activities.
• Develop integrated project plans, critical paths, resource forecasts, and dependency management across hardware, software, consumable, reagent, and manufacturing workstreams.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate technical, schedule, supply chain, quality, and commercialization risks.
• Facilitate phase-gate reviews, design reviews, executive reviews, and portfolio governance activities.
• Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Commercial teams to achieve project objectives.
• Provide concise executive-level communication on project status, risks, mitigation plans, and decisions required.
• Use data analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve execution, forecasting, reporting, and portfolio visibility.
• Develop portfolio dashboards and metrics using Power BI, Jira, Smartsheet, or other platforms.
• Drive resolution of complex technical and organizational challenges through influence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Coach project managers and contribute to continuous improvement of PMO processes, tools, and best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analytics

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/ Biomedical/ Systems Engineering

Tools

Power BI

Jira

Smartsheet

Job description

Bio-Techne seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex NPI, sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives across Simple Western and Biologics products.

You will work with R&D, Systems, Mechanical, Software, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Product Management and Commercial teams to deliver instruments, consumables, reagents, and software from concept through launch and lifecycle management.