POSITION TITLE : GCE Medical R&D Team Lead

Job Profile:

REPORTS TO: Director of Innovation

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS: 6

LOCATION: Chennai

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Managing the team's actions to delivery New Product development projects. This is an end to end responsibility of successful project delivery from gate 0 to post project audit.

- Manage the R&D budget, timelines, and resources effectively to achieve project goals on time and within scope

- Collaborate with business managers, product managers, regulatory, production, purchasing to ensure that new products and technologies meet healthcare standards, regulatory requirements, and market needs.

- Contribute to align the R&D strategy with the business growth goals

- Creative input to the NPI projects and program

- Point of contact for technical questions from customers/production/product management/quality & regulatory

- Creation, completion, and management of technical files for relevant product lines

- Determining test criteria, organising testing and interpretation of results

- Working closely with procurement to drive cost savings

- Working closely with production to deliver optimized production processes Metrics of success for the role

- Delivery of the product roadmap

- Project performance KPIs including, time to market, development cost, product cost, sales impact and product performance criteria

- Delivery of cost reduction projects

- Delivery on quality improvement projects

- Qualifications (Include education, experience, technical, travel and language requirements):

Required Qualifications:

- Masters in Engineering Mechanical or Electronics as a minimum

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in R&D leadership in the healthcare or medical device industry or highly regulated industry.

- 3-5 years experience working in a multinational, preferably American led organization working in a Global function preferably R&D.

- Experience leading Engineering process (Stagegate) and systems (PLM).

- Preference to those with a strong understanding of healthcare regulations (FDA, CE), quality standards (ISO), and product standards (NFPA, HTM, ISO, CFR, CGA, CRN).

Person Specification:

- Highly engaged attitude

- Ability to manage a team under pressure.

- Ability to undertake travel.

- Experience in a medical device company is essential.

- Experience in leading R&D in a multinational environment is essential

- Proven innovation and delivery of multiple successful NPIs in European and US markets is
essential

- Experience in regulatory matters associated with medical devices is essential

- Experience in digital healthcare is essential

- Familiarity with healthcare reimbursement and market access strategies.

- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify new opportunities for innovation.

- Experience with managing cross-functional teams and navigating complex project lifecycle

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both technical and non-technical.