Sr R&D Project Manager

Work Schedule First Shift (Days) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description Department The Project Management team is part of the Global Life Sciences Portfolio team within the Research & Development organization. Our mission is to develop innovative technologies, modules, and software solutions that help deliver world-class products for demanding global markets and customers. As technology and industry expectations continue to evolve, the performance requirements for our systems, subsystems, and software platforms are constantly increasing. In close collaboration with Advanced Technology Development teams, global R&D groups, and selected external partners, our Life Sciences organization converts the most promising technological concepts into reliable products that enable our customers to make the world cleaner, healthier, and safer.

As Senior Project Manager / Senior Product Owner, you will be a key individual contributor responsible for driving software delivery and strengthening project execution capability across Life Sciences product development. This role is especially important in building and scaling software delivery competence in India. You will work closely with global teams in Brno, Czech Republic, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and other international R&D locations to ensure strong alignment, predictable execution, and effective collaboration across sites. You will operate in a scaled software delivery environment where multiple teams, product areas, and sometimes multiple Agile Release Trains contribute to the overall delivery of complex Life Sciences solutions. Success in this role requires strong coordination skills, clear understanding of dependencies, and the ability to connect team-level execution with program, portfolio, and product milestones. You will act as a senior delivery lead and trusted partner to global R&D stakeholders, helping define and embed consistent ways of working for software development, project management, and product ownership across local, offshore, and global teams.

Responsibilities As Senior Project Manager / Senior Product Owner, you will be responsible for: Driving end-to-end delivery of software and module development projects across Life Sciences products, from requirements and planning through execution, validation, release, and sustaining. Acting as the responsible delivery lead for software workstreams, ensuring scope clarity, planning discipline, stakeholder alignment, risk management, dependency management, and high-quality execution. Demonstrating strong agency by proactively identifying delivery paths, clarifying ambiguity, removing blockers, and creating practical options when teams face uncertainty, constraints, or cross-functional complexity. Managing dependencies across teams, functions, sites, suppliers, and, where applicable, Agile Release Trains to ensure that integrated delivery plans remain realistic, visible, and actively governed. Contributing to the build-up of software delivery competence in India by helping define delivery practices, project governance, tools, templates, and collaboration models. Aligning offshore delivery teams with global R&D teams to ensure clear ownership, effective communication, predictable delivery, and strong integration with overall product development plans. Serving as a senior Project Manager or Product Owner for complex, multidisciplinary development initiatives involving software, systems, electronics, mechanical, and hardware engineering teams. Translating business, customer, and product needs into clear priorities, delivery plans, backlog structures, milestones, and execution roadmaps. Facilitating planning, prioritization, review, and decision-making forums with engineering teams, architects, product managers, project leaders, and senior stakeholders. Monitoring delivery progress, identifying risks and impediments, and driving timely resolution in collaboration with project teams and leadership. Supporting