Senior Technical Product Manager

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

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Are you interested in being a part of an international, market leading medtech company which produces life saving products?  All around the world, our products make a huge difference for patients, healthcare professionals and societies, and we are very proud of that, it is our passion. Getinge Critical Care develop and deliver ventilators, anesthesia machines and extra corporeal life support thus contributing with key products in intensive care and operation rooms. We are growing as a company and will the coming years put new products on the market.

As part of our growth, we are strengthening our team Sustaining Engineering in Solna, Stockholm with the position as Technical Product Manager. Sustaining Engineering is part of our research and development department with the responsibility to govern all design change and secure overall product safety and performance for our legacy products. As Technical Product Manager you have a key role in the latter, securing our products safety and performance. The role offers an exciting possibility to play a leading role in the redesign of our products in close cooperation with many different functions in the company. As Technical Product Manager you act like “the spider in the net”.

About this opportunity

As Technical Product Manager you drive design change improvements related to our products safety and performance which means you are part of critical decisions related to the design change of our products. You are one of the key players in our Change Control Board. Besides working closely with most fields in our research and development department, the work includes extensive collaboration with our customer complaints department, production quality engineers and supplier quality engineers. How our customers experience our products and what we experience in production are key inputs in securing our products safety and performance. Together with Product management you take action around changes related to our customer satisfaction, with our product compliance department you collaborate and take action around regulatory aspects.

Important tasks: 

• Lead and prioritize the work related to product safety and compliance leading investigations, finding root causes.
• Take decisions on product concerns and initiate countermeasures to secure our products safety and compliance such as issuing engineering change orders, approve deviations, initiate quality holds or Capas and drive field actions etc.
• Secure the long-term quality roadmap for our products
• Leading the Product Care Group responsible for product safety and performance
• Member of our Product Care Board with the responsibility to present status for your product’s safety and performance to management and prepare for decisions
• Be part of our Complaints Trend Meetings to secure the analysis of trends
• Be part of our Change Control Board to secure the coordination of decisions between different stake holders
• Work closely with our program managers design change in the prioritization and actions around design change

Who you are                                                                              

As ideal for the position you have worked within the healthcare environment and have experience from discussing technical and clinical topics as well as production and sourcing related questions. You have worked with many different types of data, diving down into detail and together with specialists solved problems to a certain technical level. You have good communication skills and are an experienced presenter in different settings. You are used to leading others without being a manager.  

Some of your key characteristics include:

• MSc or equivalent preferably in HW or Mechanics
• Minimum 5 years’ working experience preferably from the medtech sector or similar
• Experience from highly regulatory sectors
• A background as project leader
• Fluent in English and Swedish, both written and spoken                          
• Experience from production and sourcing is a nice to have

Personality

As a person you are a collaborative team player who likes having lots of contacts with different stakeholders as the work is performed highly cross functionally where you drive the work between many of the company’s competencies. Your analytical skills make you see trends and the complete picture out of the details.

To succeed in the role, you need like working in an unpredictable environment where things happen. Product concerns are unpredictable in their nature and countermeasures need to be initiated promptly.

You are curious and have a proven ability to lead and drive your own work. You drive results under complex circumstances and can communicate a complex problem in an easy understandable way in the organization. We need someone who is comfortable to work on several levels – strategically, tactically and hands-on. You are open to change and likes contributing to change.

Application

Applications will be reviewed continually, and we therefore recommend sending us your application as soon as possible, but no later than June 13th.

We kindly ask you to submit your application in our recruitment system by clicking the “apply now” button. Due to GDPR regulations we do not accept applications via e-mail.

If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Hiring Manager Kristina Helles, Director Sustaining Engineering at kristina.helles@getinge.com, 070 8871234. or Recruiter Sofia Ekstrand at sofia.ekstrand@getinge.com.

We look forward to receiving your application. We hope you will join us on our journey to become the world’s most desired MedTech company!

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