Senior Manager R&D

• Motivated product launchers: People who bring strategic direction and drive for execution to ensure products are developed and launched with precision.
• Collaborative partners: People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.
• Effective communicators: People who regularly share relevant status updates and effectively articulate issues and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management.
• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
• Accuracy-oriented team leaders. Providing direct oversight of processes and results, managers who ensure accurate and timely completion of projections, forecasts or reporting.
• Metrics-oriented managers. People who are always tracking important business metrics to ensure projects meet expectations and budget.

• Execute a robust talent offense, including management of a talent bench, for one or more teams by attracting, developing, retaining, and engaging top talent while driving personal/professional growth of individuals, the team and delivering high quality results with passion, energy and drive.
• Lead and mentor others in driving positive outcomes to abstract technical, business, and personnel problems based the application of problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.
• Lead a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging at a team level in hiring and staff development.
• Lead high complexity projects and initiatives within the business unit, with responsibility for planning, budgeting, meeting project goals and adequately staffing with talent.
• Lead and mentor others in complex cooperative efforts across cross-functional teams and business units, influencing multiple technical areas of expertise and building key relationships, to drive innovation and ensure achievement of business goals.
• Distill department Objectives, Goals, Strategy and Mission into performance objectives for direct reports.

• As a R&D Senior Manager, you will be responsible for setting SGTC strategy for the BU, aligning with key stakeholders, developing, and executing plans to accomplish the agreed strategy in a timely manner.
• Plan and manage appropriate budgets in accordance with business plans under the necessary guidance.
• Work with development teams to ensure solution designs and integration designs align with the overall architecture roadmap and technical standards.
• Oversee the implementation and completion of projects, initiatives, and system maintenance. Ensure that work is completed according to specified standards and timelines.
• Build and implement appropriate development and operations processes/tools to manage an effective Development organization.
• Advise on increasing efficiency in Software Development, share best practices. Work closely with global R&D teams to define the right technology stacks and software requirements.
• Develop an environment to focus on customer needs, and an organization that has advanced understanding of external and internal customers to effectively improve design quality of products and services.

• Educational degree of BE/B.Tech/ME/M. Tech in Computer Science/ Electronics/ Electrical Engineering
• Work experience of 15+ years in technical and people management roles. Must have led R&D teams for product development & testing with 3-5 years of people management.
• In-depth understanding of, experience in, and ability to mentor in one or more technical / functional disciplines (software, hardware)
• Product development experience in a regulated environment (Medical devices, Aerospace etc.). Understanding of US FDA quality regulations 21CFR part 820, ISO 13485 standards is a plus.
• Good to have experience of Software Engineering critical experience (Embedded, Application) or Firmware development and comfortable with SW development practices and models.
• Proficient in C++ language, strong knowledge in Data structures & Algorithms, OOPD, Design Principles & Design Patterns.
• Strong People Management skills with proven records of managing managers and creating engaged teams.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience of managing budgets and justifying resource needs to senior leaders and finance partners.
• Ability to influence and take initiative and handle multiple projects/tasks across various user groups.

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