Danaher
From Danaher's careers page
Status: listed on the employer's own careers page when we last checked (daily). Confirm on their site before applying.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter.
Bring more to life.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Cepheid, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate, molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team, you’ll get to make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale, within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the world’s most complex health challenges. Together, we bring MORE change to the world.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
The Project Manager, Systems (Hardware, Firmware & Software) leads complex, cross-functional medical device projects across hardware, embedded firmware, application software, cybersecurity, systems engineering, manufacturing, and service readiness from concept through development, verification and validation, regulatory support, launch, and post-market sustainment.
This position reports to the Senior Manager and is part of the Program Management Office [PMO] located in India, Bengaluru and will be an on-site role.
Lead cross-functional systems projects with accountability for scope, schedule, resources, budget, quality, technical performance, and delivery across all key functions.
Build and maintain integrated project plans covering requirements, design reviews, verification and validation, regulatory activities, manufacturing transfer, launch readiness, dependencies, critical paths, and recovery actions.
Establish Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid governance, facilitate core-team and phase-gate reviews, and document decisions, risks, actions, escalations, owners, and due dates.
Partner with technical and functional leaders to integrate hardware, firmware, and software while ensuring interoperability, requirements traceability, configuration control, and coordinated system testing.
Ensure compliance with Cepheid’s Quality Management System and applicable design-control and software-lifecycle processes, including required project, risk, verification, validation, cybersecurity, design-transfer, and launch documentation.
Manage program and product-development risks, issues, and opportunities using risk-based decisions, structured problem solving, mitigation plans, and timely escalations.
Track and communicate schedule, budget, resource, risk, quality, and milestone performance while coordinating commercialization, launch, lifecycle changes, and continuous improvement.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering with 7+ years of relevant experience, or a related master’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
At least 5 years of project or program management experience leading cross-functional product development, including delivery of a complex system or electro-mechanical product involving at least two of the following: hardware, firmware, software, consumables, or connected/cloud capabilities.
Strong project-management experience in integrated scheduling, resource and cost planning, risk and issue management, change control, stakeholder communication, and Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid governance.
Experience in regulated medical devices (21 CFR Part 820), in vitro diagnostics, life sciences, or scientific instrumentation, with knowledge of design controls, product risk management, verification and validation, design transfer, and controlled documentation.
PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum, SAFe, or a comparable project/program management certification.
Regulated software or firmware release experience, including cybersecurity, secure development, deployment, configuration management, or post-market updates.
Experience with manufacturing transfer, commercialization, sustainment, or continuous improvement for complex medical device or diagnostic systems; Danaher Business System experience is valuable.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
Scores your resume against this job the way resume scanners do: the job's hard and soft skills, searchability, recruiter tips and formatting.
Create a free account to see your score. Your resume stays in this browser until then, and we never store it.
Already a member? Sign in