Senior Program Manager

Siemens Healthineers AG; United States; On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Long-term and short-term disability

Paid parking/public transportation

Paid time off

Paid sick time

Job summary

Siemens Healthineers in the United States seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead technical program execution, ensuring flawless alignment between Varian and external suppliers and coordinating across internal engineering teams.

You will drive end-to-end interface management, manage risks, and maintain integrated schedules, milestones, and governance for complex multi-disciplinary programs including ARPA. This role requires strong communication and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field.
• 8–12+ years of experience in technical program/project management, preferably in medical devices or complex systems.
• Proven experience working with external suppliers or partners in a technical environment.
• Strong understanding of system integration, hardware/software interfaces, and engineering development cycles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional and multi-company technical programs.
• Strong technical acumen with ability to engage deeply with engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across organizational boundaries.
• Structured problem-solving and risk management mindset.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast-paced development environments.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end technical alignment across Varian and supplier interfaces; owns resolution of any integration misalignment.
• Own technical alignment between Varian and external suppliers, ensuring requirements clarity, traceability, and execution consistency.
• Drive interface management across hardware, software, and system integration boundaries.
• Establish and enforce technical governance with suppliers (reviews, design checkpoints, issue tracking).
• Identify and resolve technical gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks early.
• Lead and coordinate day-to-day technical program execution across internal engineering teams and external suppliers, ensuring alignment to schedule and deliverables.
• Translate program objectives into clear technical deliverables and milestones across suppliers.
• Maintain integrated program plans that reflect both Varian and supplier dependencies.
• Own the technical decision tracker and ensure all decisions are documented, communicated, and implemented across organizations.
• Proactively identify and escalate technical and integration risks.
• Drive cross-company issue resolution, ensuring rapid decision-making and no loss of momentum.
• Implement risk mitigation strategies to avoid downstream delays in system integration.
• Serve as the primary interface between Varian and supplier technical leadership.
• Provide clear, structured updates to internal stakeholders and leadership.
• Facilitate technical decision-making across organizations, ensuring alignment and accountability.
• Strategic Governance and Leadership of technical program milestones to accelerate schedules and proactively mitigate technical risks for the ARPA project.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical acumen

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in engineering/physics

Tools

Workday

Salesforce

SAP

Job description

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

The Senior Program Manager will lead technical program execution with a primary focus on ensuring flawless alignment between Varian and external suppliers. This role is responsible for orchestrating day-to-day technical activities across supplier interfaces and internal engineering teams, ensuring that system-level integration, technical requirements, and deliverables are consistently aligned, executed, and validated.

Working closely with Engineering, this role acts as the single point of coordination across supplier technical interfaces, proactively identifying risks, resolving misalignment early, and maintaining program momentum across complex, multi-disciplinary workstreams.

Responsibilities

Supplier & Technical Alignment

• Accountable for end-to-end technical alignment across Varian and supplier interfaces; owns resolution of any integration misalignment impacting program delivery.
• Own technical alignment between Varian and external suppliers, ensuring requirements clarity, traceability, and execution consistency
• Drive interface management across hardware, software, and system integration boundaries
• Establish and enforce technical governance with suppliers (reviews, design checkpoints, issue tracking)
• Identify and resolve technical gaps, inconsistencies, and integration risks early

Program Execution & Coordination

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day technical program execution across internal engineering teams and external suppliers, ensuring alignment to schedule and deliverables.
• Translate program objectives into clear technical deliverables and milestones across suppliers
• Maintain integrated program plans that reflect both Varian and supplier dependencies
• Own the technical decision tracker and ensure all decisions are documented, communicated, and implemented across organizations.Risk & Issue Management
• Proactively identify and escalate technical and integration risks
• Drive cross-company issue resolution, ensuring rapid decision-making and no loss of momentum

Implement risk mitigation strategies to avoid downstream delays in system integration

Communication & Leadership

• Serve as the primary interface between Varian and supplier technical leadership
• Provide clear, structured updates to internal stakeholders and leadership
• Facilitate technical decision-making across organizations, ensuring alignment and accountability
• Strategic Governance and Leadership of technical program milestones to accelerate schedules and proactively mitigate technical risks for the ARPA project.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Physics, or related technical field
• 8–12+ years of experience in technical program/project management, preferably in medical devices or complex systems
• Proven experience working with external suppliers or partners in a technical environment
• Strong understanding of system integration, hardware/software interfaces, and engineering development cycles
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional and multi-company technical programs
• Strong technical acumen with ability to engage deeply with engineering teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across organizational boundaries
• Structured problem-solving and risk management mindset
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast-paced development environments

Other Desired Skills and Knowledge:

• Proven experience with FLASH clinical trials.
• Experience with HCM (e.g., Workday), CRM (Salesforce) and ERP (SAP) product and productivity software.
• Strong can do and solution orientated focus.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

• Zero ambiguity in supplier technical interfaces and requirements
• Early identification and resolution of integration risks
• Smooth, predictable execution across supplier-dependent milestonesStrong working relationships and trust established with key suppliers

Special Job Requirements:

• Occupational exposure to radiation and other occupational hazards pertaining to the operation of a linear accelerator
• Standing, sitting, or stooping for extended periods of time.
• Periodic travel (domestic or international) as required by project milestones, with a focus on remote coordination where possible.

Who we are

We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work:

When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here.

The base pay range for this position is:

$167,030 - $229,669

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company’s plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• life insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• paid parking/public transportation
• paid time off
• paid sick and safe time

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Siemens Healthineers is an Equal Opportunity and encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

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Export Control:

“A successful candidate must be able to work with controlled technology in accordance with US export control law.” “It is Siemens Healthineers’ policy to comply fully and completely with all United States export control laws and regulations, including those implemented by the Department of Commerce through the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), by the Department of State through the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and by the Treasury Department through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions regulations.”