Sr. R&D Engineering Manager

MiniMed•Moorpark, CA

About The Position

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world. MiniMed is looking for a Sr R&D Engineering Manager for our New Ventures Group. This group is focused on developing new diabetes systems, products and solutions in an inorganic, accelerator environment. Our team is unique in that we can adapt to a variety of business, patient and marketplace needs that span the entire spectrum of our product portfolio today and in the future. Our mission drives the need to be a highly skilled, flexible, extremely efficient, versatile and agile in medical device product development for the benefit of our patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in need of intensive insulin therapy. We value what makes you unique. Be a part of a company that thinks differently to solve problems, make progress, and deliver meaningful innovations. The Sr R&D Manger is responsible for driving the technical strategy and execution of projects that deliver products for patients in need of emerging solutions to help manage their diabetes. Leveraging a broad and diverse technical experience and skillset, this leader will provide technical leadership and direction to and collaborate with a cross-functional program development team including co-collaborators, outside partners and internal members with expertise from a wide variety of engineering and product development disciplines. Directly responsible for leading the engineering disciplines of engineering (systems, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software) and collaborating with other functions such as manufacturing engineering, marketing, clinical regulatory affairs, quality and other key business functions. In addition, this leader will generate technical plans based on key technical risks, activities to reduce risk, product architecture, evaluation activities to converge on conceptual, prototype and final product embodiments. As the technical leader of the program, they will work side-by-side with the program leader, lead key technical efforts and actively participate in senior leadership meetings.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience.

Nice To Haves

Prefer 10+ years product development experience related to medical device
Strong preference for experience preferably in the development of medical device fluidic systems
Mastery and proficiency in product development, including clear understanding of the product development lifecycle, technology development mechanisms with a track record of success products realized in the marketplace
Influence management skills; experience working collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals
Business acumen; ability to think and act from an overall “best for the business” perspective
Results oriented, self-starter with a strong initiative and sense of urgency
Enthusiasm and a desire to affect change
Experience and demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong technical leadership and influencing skills
Excellent communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness - ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management and employees.
Effective decision-making skills - experience negotiating and balancing decisions and priorities across needs of several functional departments and willingness to make tough decisions. Makes timely decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.
Strong analytical, planning, organization and time management skills to effectively develop and execute comprehensive programs and budgets.
Experience with 3D CAM, MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint and other collaboration and workflow management tools

Responsibilities

Build upon the R&D infrastructure to support New Venture programs
Plan and lead the technical aspects of new product development programs from conception through commercialization
Lead the engineering team to assess the feasibility, characterization and qualification of new potential features and technologies and their readiness for product integration
Lead the efforts to define the product and functional requirements
Direct the efforts the verification of requirements and support the validation of the user needs
Lead design reviews through the product development life cycle
Support the establishment of several production lines and design transfer to manufacturing
Work closely with patients on user needs, product features and design validation
Support pre-clinical studies to validate safety prior to first human use
Support clinical studies to prove safety and efficacy for regulatory clearance
Support the cross-functional team on the execution of the various product development effort
Contribute to the technical due diligence of early stage and development companies, potential collaborators and emerging research.
Coaching and mentoring team members
Building and enhancing the Intellectual Property portfolio
Effective conflict resolution
Ability to frame and direct effective and efficient technical trade-off discussions
Communication with leaderships, management and team members including appropriate risk and escalation management
Build a solid and high performing team with clear communication to leadership, extended team members, and enabling functions
Engages team members to ensure effective team dynamics and mutual accountability.