Program Director

The Program Director is responsible for ensuring the timely development and successful commercialization execution of large scale, highly-strategic and complex programs.

The Program Director leads across functional team through the process from conceptualization to commercialization. This role will require the ability to blend knowledge of the global market environment with the varying needs of Cepheids customers across all geographies.

The Program Director is accountable for leveraging new and diverse approaches resulting in optimized solutions by leading the team through Commercial, Regulatory, Manufacturing, and technical problem solving and decision making.

This leader also leads and facilitates the decisions related to talent and resource allocations, negotiations and changes working with functional managers and other business leaders.

This is a highly visible and critical position on our leadership team; this role will represent the program and program team to executive leadership, as well as the global organization.

Programs are managed using a structured Phase Gate product development process which includes understanding an ISO, GMP and FDA compliant environment.

This position will report directly to the Vice-President Portfolio and Program Management Office and will be located in onsite Sunnyvale, California.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to :

• Leads and directs the cross-functional activities and outcomes of a program. Ensures alignment of product value proposition, program scope, and strategic business objective
• Leads program leadership daily management and L2 product planning group (PPG) for key large scale, highly-strategic, highly-complex business critical project or program interacting with business leaders, senior functional leaders on significant business matters, strategic, operational or technical matters, in order to define best options for product development.
• Provides coaching, mentoring and feedback to Core Team members, Projects Managers, Functional Leaders.
• Analyzes data and complex situations involving evaluation of tangible variables to programs
• Use an advanced knowledge of business processes and organizational savvy to mobilize and deploy the resources necessary to support the business.
• Demonstrates program management best practices and contributes to improving product development process.
• Advocate for novel ideas for defining, implementing and bringing to market new products, technologies and services.
• Define, delegate and evaluate the roles, responsibilities, goals and deliverables for the program and extended team members.
• Creates and sustain an inclusive environment.
• Chair the program team to mitigate risks and resolve issues.
• Defines program resource needs, and negotiates program resourcing plans.
• Leads key technical and design reviews, and constructively challenges the team and the organization to rethink assumptions and approach challenges in new ways.
• Ensures compliance with the company's global development process.
• Manages program budget and business case effectively.

The essential requirements of the job include :

• Minimum 14+ years of experience in a project or program management role
• Track record of success in launching programs and bringing products to commercialization in a regulated environment
• Complete understanding of a wide application of business and program management principles, theories and concepts in the field.
• Cross functional Process master, Influence without authority, business commercial, and finance acumen
• Bachelor’s Degree is required, and MBA is preferred
• Black Belt and PMP Certification or equivalent are also preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25%

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in :

• managing people
• Experience in medical device, diagnostic or life sciences industries

Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives.

Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.

This job is also eligible for bonus / incentive pay

The base salary range for this role is $165,000- 200,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.

We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical / dental / vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable.

The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to 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.

Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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