Project Manager NPI Product Development Medical Devices (m/f/d)
Novanta Inc.Germany6 days ago
Full-timeProject Management, Information Technology
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Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
This position is part of Novanta’s Advanced Surgery business unit. Specialized in the field of Minimally Invasive Medicine, WOM develops devices and accessories so that doctors can operate with small cuts. We produce Cameras, Insufflators, Medical Pumps, and tubing that makes diagnosis and treatment easier for everyone. Our insufflators and pump systems dilate cavities in the body and turn previously complicated surgeries into minor procedures. Together with customers, doctors, and technical experts, our teams continuously search for new ways to innovate.
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This position as Project Manager in responsible for product development. The project manager should cover both the project management of devices and the project management of tube systems.
Primary Responsibilities
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
This position is part of Novanta’s Advanced Surgery business unit. Specialized in the field of Minimally Invasive Medicine, WOM develops devices and accessories so that doctors can operate with small cuts. We produce Cameras, Insufflators, Medical Pumps, and tubing that makes diagnosis and treatment easier for everyone. Our insufflators and pump systems dilate cavities in the body and turn previously complicated surgeries into minor procedures. Together with customers, doctors, and technical experts, our teams continuously search for new ways to innovate.
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This position as Project Manager in responsible for product development. The project manager should cover both the project management of devices and the project management of tube systems.
Primary Responsibilities
- Managing large-scale projects for product development (NPI)
- Creation and monitoring of project plans incl. milestone plan, COGS, project costs and NREs
- Reporting project status updates as well as project phase transitions to the executive management
- Identification and mitigation of project risks
- Guiding the project team through the individual development phases
- Alignment of shared resources within R&D
- Coordination of cooperation with the departments: Purchasing/ Service/ Production/ QM/ Manufacturing Engineering/ Regulatory Affairs/ PM and with customers as well as external Service Providers
- Initiating the procurement of materials for sample and prototype builds
- Initiation, coordination and maintenance of technical product documentation up to the product launch
- Ensure timely delivery of mandatory documents for each project phase
- Ensure fulfillment of customer expectations & customer satisfaction
- Escalation of critical project parameters to the program manager and superiors
- Ensure internal & external communication flow
- Internal alignment of customer communication strategy
- Implementation of the departmental and product group strategy
- Coordination with other project managers on processes, interfaces and cross-sectional tasks
- Active participation in the innovation process & continuous improvement
- Strict adherence to quality, occupational safety and environmental regulations and implementation of the instructions of quality/ environmental management officers and occupational safety specialist
- Technical education - Diploma, Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or comparable
- Min. of 3 years’ experience in project management
- Ideally, experience in the medical device field, but at least from a highly regulated industry
- Proven track record of completed projects with a minimum of 300.000€ project budget
- Experienced with classical project management as well as agile project management
- Experience in managing small or medium-sized projects
- Experience with common project management tools (e.g. MS Project, MS Azure or similar)
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, SharePoint desirable
- English GER-C1*
- Good communication skills in German and English
- Positive attitude and intercultural sensitivity
- Self-motivated working style, always pushing the boundaries
- Attention to detail and systematic way of working
- Cross-functional 360deg view
- Quality-conscious, trustworthy and reliable
- Analytical, structured and systematic way of working
- Self-motivated working style, always pushing the boundaries
- Team-oriented leadership
- Presentation skills (right content for right audience)
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.
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