Manager, Project Management (Life Science Instrumentation, Product Development)

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, one of Danaher’s 15 operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, we know time is the most critical facet in the laboratory today: time to get life-saving therapies to patients faster; reclaiming time by automating tedious manual workflows; and saving time spent addressing erroneous or complex results.

We are partners in time and accelerate answers to critical questions through the power of automation. We develop innovations for scientists by scientists, with many of our 3,300 global colleagues coming from the laboratory.

It’s all part of our time-tested approach to bringing meaningful innovations at the speed of life since 1935. And we’re just beginning. Working together, let’s put our time and talents together to advance human health for tomorrow.

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We are currently seeking a Manager, Project Management - Research and Development, who will be responsible for utilizing best-in-class project and cross-functional stakeholder management skills, experience and methodologies to deliver transformational life sciences products to our customers, against aggressive business timelines and metrics.

This position is located ONSITE in Loveland, Colorado.

In this role, your responsibilities are:

• Drive project management excellence through best practice methodologies, utilizing the Danaher Business System (DBS). Introduce and sustain tracking and reporting metrics that enable timely communication and meaningful interventions to keep projects teams on track with project deliverables and milestones. Identify the resources needed to achieve project goals through established resource capacity planning.

• Translate strategy to action in a global product development environment to achieve on time, on budget project delivery that meets business and customer needs. Communicate priorities and balance trade-offs between short-term and long-term objectives. Pro-actively identify potential roadblocks and risks to program success, and propose and implement mitigations.

• Develop and cultivate strong relations and communication with internal stakeholders. Maintain strong working partnerships with leadership team and resource managers.

• Facilitate capability-building, culture change, and process improvements within the PMO and across the R&D organization. Embed new practices into the way we think about product development. Support change management.

• Develop and grow other project management professionals, through management of direct reports and mentorship of project core team members. Coach others to develop proficiency in project management skills and tools, and achieve increasing levels of capability in project execution and leadership.

The required qualifications for the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, chemical or biomedical engineering, or closely related field, with preference for 14 years of related professional experience life science and/or medical device product development. Or master’s degree (preference for 12 years’ experience) or Ph.D. degree (preference for 10 years’ experience).
• Prefer minimum of 4 years’ experience managing at least 2 direct reports, specifically project management and/or product development professionals.

• Track record of simultaneously managing and delivering multiple life sciences product development projects/programs, comprised of hardware, software and reagents, from ideation to market launch.

• Extensive working knowledge and experience of project management governance, process, and tools. Proficiency in JIRA, Smartsheet, Excel and Visual PM software.

• Possess in-depth knowledge and experience in the life science tools and/or molecular diagnostics industries.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Project Management Certification (e.g., PMP, PgMP, PfMP).
• Change Management Certification (e.g., Prosci/ADKAR or Other).
• Leading product development projects, consisting of hardware, software and reagents, in a regulated environment requiring compliance with ISO13485 and global compliance requirements.

The salary range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Given the essential job duties of this position, the employee is required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including applicable boosters) as a condition of employment, subject to reasonable accommodation and applicable law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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