Senior R&D Manager - Interventional Heart Failure

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

About the role:

As a Senior R&D Manager, you will lead a team of engineers and technicians in the design, development, and commercialization of innovative medical devices within the Interventional Heart Failure (IHF) division of Boston Scientific. 

This position is a leader in a fast-growing team with significant investment from the franchise.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
• Assessing project team needs across IHF and working with technical leads and program managers to ensure they are set up for technology and product development success.
• Providing direction and/or guidance to R&D engineers and technicians who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments. 
• Fostering a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Collaboratively determines project staff assignments and schedules to meet completion dates and R&D deliverables.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to identify and resolve technical issues
• Monitors and evaluates project and department progress and results
• Creating an entrepreneurial environment.
• Keeping the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrating effective change leadership.
• Building strategic partnerships across Boston Scientific to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Developing and executing organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitoring compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Making decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Developing, monitoring and appropriately adjusting the annual budget for department.
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. federal/country and regulatory requirements).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or more from accredited school in Mechanical, Biotechnical, Biomedical, or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in medical equipment or medical device design
• Demonstrated capability to produce innovative solutions for complex technical problems.
• Personal drive, individual accountability & a strong bias for action.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated leadership in recent role
• Willingness to work onsite at our Maple Grove, MN location 

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Experience with Class II or Class III medical device product development
• Catheter design and development experience
• Demonstrated test method development and validation experience
• 2+ years of direct management experience
• Cross functional experience in working with external manufacturing partners, operations and test engineering and process development

Requisition ID: 594000

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender expression, veteran’s status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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