Boston Scientific Associate R&D Manager 

United States, Minnesota 

446562527

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This Associate R&D Manager position will be based in Maple Grove, MN.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide leadership, management, and mentoring to R&D Technicians and Technology Specialists, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Supports team members in career development and attaining their career goals, developing direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, providing constructive feedback, and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
• Motivates individual team members to achieve results and works with them in resolving challenges.
• Leads strategy and execution for identifying and developing Technician and Technology Specialist talent for IO&E, ensuring appropriate staffing and skillsets to support current and future needs.
• Works closely with management across IO&E project teams to understand Technician and Technology Specialist staffing needs and ensure projects are appropriately supported for success, resolving priority conflicts when they arise.
• Contributes to developing and monitoring of department budgets, determining appropriate staff levels, schedules, and resources, and preparing and managing resource plans for R&D initiatives.
• Provides management oversight for one or more R&D laboratories, including a new R&D lab being built for the TheraSphere Y90 R&D team, managing lab access, lab compliance to relevant procedures, supporting lab audits, calibration and maintenance of equipment, and other general laboratory management responsibilities.
• Leads the development of test methods and prototyping capabilities to meet the needs of IO&E project teams. This could include customer demonstration models, engineering test methods, and/or overseeing test method validation.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required
• 4+ years of experience in a regulated industry
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor technical staff
• Excellent leadership, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science discipline
• Experience in medical device industry on a product development project, including experience with prototyping technologies, test method development, and product development lifecycle documentation and processes.
• 1+ years of people leadership and supervisory experience
• Experience managing a research and development lab.

Compensation fornon-exempt (hourly), non-sales rolesmay also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation forexempt, non-sales rolesmay also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

For MA positions:It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.