Senior Director R&D Portfolio and Program Management

As Senior Director, you will lead the CP R&D portfolio and PMO, guiding capital equipment programs and product development. You’ll shape governance, prioritization, and resource planning across global teams, driving on-time delivery within budgets and regulatory timelines. You’ll chair the Portfolio Review Committee and partner with CP leadership to optimize portfolio trade-offs and investments. You’ll manage a ~10-person organization across multiple European sites and report to the VP of CP R&D. This role blends strategic oversight with hands-on execution to advance life-changing medical innovations.

• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Global recognition programme
• Flexible working options
• Competitive compensation

• Provide strategic oversight of CP Director, Project Heads and Senior Project Managers, ensuring disciplined execution and accountability for timelines, budgets, milestones, and deliverables
• Lead and develop direct reports and teams, establishing clear accountability and succession planning across CP R&D project leadership
• Oversee portfolio risks, interdependencies, and mitigation to protect timelines and budgets
• Guide project teams to proactively resolve barriers ensuring governance commitments are met
• Chair PRC governance meetings and prepare executives for reviews and updates
• Establish and improve the CP R&D portfolio operating model, governance cadence, escalation pathways, and standardized practices
• Develop executive dashboards and decision materials showing milestones, budget, resources, risks, and dependencies
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to evaluate trade-offs, resource constraints, investment priorities, and sequencing
• Monitor budgets and resources, providing financial reporting and risk insights to CP R&D leadership
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment through clear communication and regular updates
• Ensure regulatory and quality alignment with ISO 13485, EU MDR, CE marking and design controls
• Drive process improvement using lean methods and design thinking across the maturity curve
• Lead continuous improvement efforts to raise process maturity across functional areas

• Extensive experience leading complex R&D programs and PMO functions in MedTech or regulated industries
• Proven track record managing large-scale NPD/NPI programs in a global, matrixed environment
• Senior people leadership for Director-level project leaders with performance coaching
• Broad technical knowledge in medical technology, including design controls and ISO 14971 risk management
• Ability to synthesize business, technical, regulatory, and operational factors across large programs
• Knowledge of EU MDR, CE Marking, ISO 13485; regulatory sensitivity is preferred
• Fluency in English; German/Italian preferred
• Experience with portfolio governance, capacity planning, executive dashboards, and trade-off recommendations
• BS in engineering, science, business, technology or equivalent; PMP or similar certification preferred
• Travel approx. 30% to Europe and global sites

• Strategic leadership
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Executive communication
• Portfolio governance
• Resource capacity planning
• Stage Gate and design controls