Innovation Lead / Senior Project Manager R&D Getinge

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.

Are you looking for an inspiring career? You just found it.

We are looking for an Innovation Lead / Senior Project Manager to drive innovation projects from early concept to validated solutions ready for R&D development and implementation.

This role sits at the interface of innovation, R&D, and business, ensuring ideas are matured, tested, and structured so they can be successfully taken forward into formal development.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end innovation and early-phase development projects, from pre-study and concept to validated and transferable outcomes
• Drive technical pre-studies and feasibility investigations for next-generation products and functions
• Lead concept development, rapid prototyping, and iterative design cycles
• Translate exploration into clear actions, priorities, decisions, and concrete deliverables
• Apply and further develop Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) to structure maturity and progression
• Build, shape, and lead truly cross-functional teams across R&D, product, and business, ensuring alignment, shared ownership, and clear communication
• Drive complex technical work by actively engaging in and structuring advanced technical problem-solving
• Demonstrate strong technical leadership, including clear decision-making in uncertain and complex environments
• Facilitate cross-functional teams of experts and lead in a complex organization
• Ensure quality, regulatory compliance, and risk management throughout all phases
• Drive and ensure successful handover into R&D development, including ownership of process alignment, ways of working, and readiness for implementation

Who you are

You combine technical depth with strong execution capability and are comfortable working in complex, regulated environments. You bring strong technical leadership, with the ability to understand, challenge, and guide advanced technical topics while enabling teams to deliver. You are comfortable making decisions and driving progress in complex environments

What you bring 

• MSc or PhD in Engineering or a relevant field
• 8+ years of experience from medtech R&D or other regulated industries, preferably medical device or critical care products
• Solid experience in product development of complex, integrated (embedded) systems, with strong understanding of the full development lifecycle
• Proven experience leading cross-functional technology development
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-company collaboration skills
• Experience working as a facilitator of experts
• Experience or strong understanding of TRL frameworks is highly valued
• Fluency in Swedish and English, written and spoken

Great if you also have experience in:

• Concept development and rapid prototyping
• Iterative design and design reviews
• Customer workflows and UX validation
• Experience or strong understanding of simulation and modeling

What makes you successful

You demonstrate strong technical leadership and the ability to go deep into complex technical domains when needed. You turn ideas into structured outcomes that others can build on. You combine a pragmatic approach with strong structure and methodological rigor and a strong focus on quality and continuous improvement.

Why this role matters

You will play a key role in ensuring that innovation efforts result in robust, innovative solutions that can be successfully developed into future products within Critical Care. 

Application  

Applications will be reviewed continually, and we therefore recommend sending us your application as soon as possible, but no later than 2026-05-02 

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 Olga Malmberg at olga.malmberg@getinge.com or Talent Partner Emma Paulsson at emma.paulsson@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. 

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.  

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. 

We exist to make life-saving technology accessible to more people. To meet future expectations and perform at our best, we need Team players, Forward thinkers, and Game changers.

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