Senior R&D Project Manager

Senior R&D Project Manager

Company: Global Medical Device Company
Location: Plymouth, MN or Salt Lake City, UT
Employment Type: Permanent
Travel: Up to 35%

The Opportunity

Brio Resource Group is partnering with a global medical device company to identify a Senior R&D Project Manager.

This position will lead complex new-product development, technology, product-integration, and strategic R&D initiatives from concept through commercialization and post-launch support. The successful candidate will align multidisciplinary teams, manage technical and regulatory complexity, and ensure disciplined execution across design controls, quality systems, design transfer, and commercialization milestones.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional projects spanning new-product development, product improvements, QMS integrations, business integrations, and strategic R&D initiatives.
  • Manage programs from concept and feasibility through development, commercialization, design transfer, and post-launch support.
  • Define project scope, goals, deliverables, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, success criteria, and governance.
  • Develop integrated project plans and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, changes, and critical decisions.
  • Drive execution through stage-gate processes, design controls, quality systems, regulatory requirements, and Design for X principles.
  • Lead internal and external design-transfer and manufacturing workstreams.
  • Establish clear accountability, communication, and alignment across R&D, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Manufacturing, and business leadership.
  • Present project status, risks, recommendations, and decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.
  • Identify process-improvement opportunities and implement best practices in project execution, risk management, and structured problem-solving.
  • Coordinate activities across multiple sites, external design partners, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, or another relevant STEM discipline.
  • Three to five years of R&D or product/process-development experience, plus five to seven years of project or program management experience.
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex multidisciplinary projects within scope, budget, quality, and timeline expectations.
  • Medical-device or similarly regulated product-development experience.
  • Experience with design transfer, contract design partners, suppliers, and manufacturing workstreams.
  • Strong knowledge of stage-gate development, design controls, ISO 13485, EU MDR, GMP, and QMS documentation requirements.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence outcomes without direct authority.
  • Proficiency with project-management tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet.
  • Strong planning, communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and organizational skills.
  • Willingness to travel up to 35%.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience supporting IDE, 510(k), or PMA submissions.
  • PMP certification.
  • Experience with catheters, consumable devices, capital equipment, systems, or Class III medical devices.
  • Systems-engineering and requirements-management experience.
  • Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, Green Belt, Black Belt, or related structured problem-solving training.
  • Experience leading programs across multiple locations and external development or manufacturing partners.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This role offers the opportunity to lead high-impact medical-device programs from concept through commercialization, influence how multidisciplinary teams execute complex projects, and help advance technologies that improve patient care and quality of life.

We will provide a complete job description, compensation information, benefits, and additional company details after an initial résumé review.