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The Program Director leads the program management and lifecycle management of the programs that compose the BioFire IVD Panels portfolio including all aspects of Panel development - chemistry, software and instrumentation updates and other associated components. The Program Director will be responsible for maximizing the value of the of the Global BioFire IVD Panels franchise. As the product portfolio owner, the Program Director ensures successful development, commercialization, and overall life cycle management of the BioFire Panels portfolio of products. The Director will work with the representatives from all functional teams (R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, Marketing) to manage the product pipeline; including development and introduction of new products, changes to the current product suite, and product obsolescence.

This role is focused on managing, and executing the roadmap of the BioFire Panels Program. The Program Director will manage a group of Project Managers and Project Leaders to execute the product roadmap. In addition, this role requires managing the annual development budget, long range planning, prioritization of projects, and working with cross functional teams on resource allocation. The Director will be responsible for implementing and driving the use of corporate project management tools across the program, and will represent the Program at the relevant Program and Portfolio governance bodies.

Job duties include:

• Manage the BioFire Panels product components throughout the lifecycle from concept to obsolescence

• Manage team of project managers to define and execute product portfolio roadmap

• Manage budget and long-range program planning to align with market needs

• Maintain tracking to ensure that priorities, goals, quality, time and budget are reached according to plan.

• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel

• • Ensure alignment within Molecular Portfolio

• Maintain portfolio requirements, business objectives, budget and schedule for the program

• Define prioritization of projects and resource allocations

• Manage governance and communications for the program to upper management

• Report key metrics showing the performance of the Program and projects

• Contributes to portfolio strategy definition by helping to prioritize programs and projects.

• Maintains a long-term roadmap for the portfolio and aligns the roadmap with operational roadmaps.

• Ensure arbitration, escalation and decision taking to execute program

• Evaluate, authorize and communicate changes that impact scope, budget or timelines

• Lead a cross-functional Core Team responsible for managing the portfolio of BioFire Panel projects

• Lead arbitration and escalation process when needed across projects

  Qualifications:

• B.S. in a technical field.

• MS/MBA/PhD preferred, PMP certification preferred

• At least 5 years of People Leadership/Management

• 10 years of relevant experience in project and program management in regulated environment and ideally experience in portfolio management.

• Demonstrated leadership ability

• Desire and willingness to take ownership and be accountable for critical business line.

• Deep understanding of panel development process

• Understanding and demonstrated experience with design control, risk management, and change control.

• Deep understanding of company organization, product line strategy, product lifecycle management, project/program/portfolio management.

• Leadership ability with focus on developing team of project leaders and driving alignment and collaboration of other stakeholders of key priority projects.

• Self-motivated, and able to manage time effectively. Proactive. Organized. Critical and innovative thinker.

• Can effectively work as part of a team.

• Ability to understand multiple perspectives.

• Critical listening skills, and an ability to recognize and translate important and high-level information.

• Clear and transparent verbal and written communication.

• Ability to stay positive and calm in stressful situations.

• Ability to adjust to changes in scheduling, and general flexibility in the work environment.