New Product Introduction (NPI) Manager

Requisition ID 2024-15495

Job Location(s)
Bjæverskov Denmark

Job Locations
DK-Bjæverskov

Languages Required
Danish, English

Company
William Cook Europe

Position Type
Full Time

Category
Product/Project Management

Education
Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree

Overview
Do you thrive in a highly cross functional landscape between R&D and Manufacturing? Do you have solid track record within project management skills? Are you motivated seeing life-saving products come alive in daily production and do you like to put yourself in front of high-priority projects?

If yes, this is a great opportunity to join our Manufacturing Engineering NPI Team at Cook Medical in Bjæverskov, only 30 minutes south of Copenhagen.

Put your mark on global transfer projects!
As NPI Project Manager you will be joining a newly formed team in Manufacturing Engineering Production Support. The team’s role is to lead transfer projects from either R&D to production or global transfers from site-to-site to fully utilize our global manufacturing network.

“We are currently working on transfer preparation of several R&D projects. The product portfolio ranges from Thoracic Stent Graft, Vena Cava Filters, and Embolization Coils, however the common denominator is medical devices for minimal invasive procedures.”

Responsibilities
You will be responsible for leading transfer projects from either R&D to production or transfer projects from site-to-site, ensuring timely execution of activities in close collaboration with key functions such as Quality, Test and Validation and Manufacturing. Depending on the project, you will work closely together with either the R&D project manager or the NPI lead at one of our other production sites. Your main responsibilities will be:

• Support one or more NPI projects, ensuring project visibility and completion of projects to agreed timeline and scope.
• Ensure production readiness making sure that manufacturability, process validation, process capability, lean manufacturing, equipment selection and specification development are in place.
• Ensure the effective completion of all activities associated with transfer to manufacturing of an R&D engineering project by ensuring productive and collaborative work.
• Utilize a risk-based approach during the development, implementation, and validation process.
• Report and communicate risk and challenges to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop manufacturing strategy together with R&D and other relevant stakeholders.

As a part of this job, you will also be the process owner for our “Transfer to Manufacturing” process making sure that it’s maintained and up to date.

Professional network
In this role, you will be building a large network across the entire organization, not only in Denmark but also throughout other manufacturing sites in the US, Australia, and Ireland. You will be met by highly motivated and skilled co-workers on all levels of the organization. The tone is very informal and open, and the team within Manufacturing Engineering Production Support will offer great opportunities for mutual sparing. A strong sense of humor is part of everyday work life, and there is a strong sense of caring for each other within the team.

Qualifications
Experienced candidate with lots of energy
You possess a strong drive to deliver excellent results for our transfer projects. You are an experienced Project Manager with proven results and a solid track record. Solid communication skills and good stakeholder management is a natural part of your professional identity.

In addition, you have:

• Experience with transfer projects, preferably from Medical Device or a similar industry
• Experience with process validation, production setup and flow
• A structured and systematic approach to planning in a complex and interdisciplinary environment
• Good written and spoken English skills as English is our corporate language.

Cook – a special workplace

Cook Medical is a family owned, American company with well over 12.000 employees worldwide

We invent, manufacture and deliver unique medical devices to the health care systems of the world. Serving patients is a privilege and we demand the highest standards of quality, ethics, and service in all that we do.

In Denmark, we are approximately 800 colleagues based in Bjaeverskov and Ringsted, respectively.

At Cook Medical, we are proud of our special ”Cook spirit”. All over the organization, you are met with courtesy and pride of the quality of the work we carry out and the devices we develop. As a Cook employee, you contribute to the development of innovative, unique medical devices – and we are aware that we make a difference to patients all over the world every day.

We appreciate qualities such as decisiveness, loyalty, and humor and work for an open dialog.

As a new Cook colleague, you are offered a well-organized internal training course enabling you to quickly gain a thorough knowledge of the company. Apart from a salary package comprising bonus and pension schemes, we offer a high degree of flexibility in the planning of your daily work with the assignments in focus, equipment for teleworking, a good canteen when you are onsite, health assurance, and activities such as an Arts’ Society, a Sports’ Society and free use of the company’s own fitness center.

Interested?
If you recognize yourself in this role, please send your CV including a short motivation for applying via below link at the earliest convenience and by Monday 16 December at the latest. Interviews will be held continuously, and the start date is at the earliest convenience.

Please feel free to contact NPI Manager Morten Degn at +45 41954217 if you have any questions related to this position.