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Lead the Specimen Management TCI sustaining engineering team at BD in Bengaluru, India. As an R&D Manager, you will oversee sustaining engineering projects, cross-functional resourcing, and budgets while ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards. This full-time role requires strong leadership to mentor associates and drive technical excellence.

Requirements

  • Minimum 4 years of experience directly leading product development teams (20+ members) in a cross-functional environment.
  • Minimum 4 years of leading teams (5+ members) performing design and verification testing.
  • Experience with statistical software such as MINITAB, STATISTICA, R, Stata, or SPSS, and CAD/CAE tools like SolidWorks.
  • Understanding of design tools, tolerance analyses, FMEA, and SPC.
  • No specific degree requirement stated in the posting.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Project Management: Direct cross-functional sustaining engineering projects, ensuring timely delivery of deliverables within budget.
  • Team Leadership & Development: Build, recruit, and mentor engineering teams, fostering continuous learning and high performance.
  • Quality & Compliance: Ensure adherence to BD quality policies, safety regulations, and establish R&D best practices for change control and technical documentation.
  • Problem Solving & Design V/V: Oversee failure investigations, data analyses, and verification testing using advanced statistical tools.
  • Potential transition routes: People from senior engineering or technical project management roles may bring strong cross-functional leadership and technical skills, alongside meeting the required management and product development experience.

Job description

We are the people who give possibilities purpose

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Job Description

General Function
• Build the BD Specimen Management TCI sustaining engineering team through effective selection, organizational, and development of highly skilled engineers.
• Manage sustaining engineering projects and personnel including engineers and technicians.

• Ensure compliance with BD quality policies, procedures, and practices through appropriate communication, training, and education of sound quality assurance principals.
• Ensure compliance with all local, state, federal, and BD safety regulations, policies, and procedures.

Organizational Management
• Project planning: Ensure quality and accuracy of integrated project plans encompassing all cross-functional activities. Engage in detailed review of cross-functional plans and be
accountable for their success.
• Project management: Ensure comprehensive and effective project plans are developed and actively monitor progress against plans. Monitor timely delivery of all project deliverables as specified in the plans.
• Budgeting: Develop detailed budgets in accordance with project and department plans, and business objectives. Manage budget diligently and be accountable to perform to the budget.
• Resourcing: Align dedicated and shared resources cross-functionally to optimize and ensure success of sustaining engineering projects.
• Process effectiveness: Ensure appropriate processes are followed for effective and timely engagement of other parts of the company in project activities.
• Innovation: Develop and apply innovative approaches to ensure best outcomes in all aspects of the role. Create an environment in which innovation can flourish through empowerment, encouragement, and support.

Organizational Development
• Associate development: Actively develop and mentor associates. Provide frequent feedback. Be accountable for their success. Continue to raise the bar on the group and help associates rise to expectations.
• Human resource planning: Actively participate in human resource planning.
• Organization building: Develop a strong and deep leadership talent bench. Build a team with world-class expertise in sustaining engineering.
• Recruiting and talent retention: Establish a high bar for recruiting talent. Actively recruit best talent and design long-term career paths and development to attract and retain.

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R&D Manager

Bengaluru

• Continuous learning: Develop an actively learning organization willing to take risks, systematically learning and applying new lessons.

Leadership
• Accountability: Demonstrate strong and clear accountability for the group’s performance and delivery.
• R&D communication: Conduct and encourage frequent formal and informal communication within the group to ensure full engagement and efficient operation.
• Influence others: Intuitively and quickly assess people and situations and act accordingly. Demonstrate strong persuasion and timing skills. Remain open to be persuaded when appropriate.
• Inclusive work environment: Promote and leverage diversity to achieve best outcomes. Ensure all interested parties have opportunities to influence and contribute to decisions and outcomes.
• Leadership courage: Demonstrate and promote leadership courage by doing what is right. Engage those who disagree to persuade or be persuaded. Instil confidence in associates and customers.
• Dealing with ambiguity: Demonstrate agility and action orientation when facing change and uncertainty. Effectively manage change and instil confidence

Functional Excellence

  • Establish R&D best practices such as design control documentation, design V/V strategy and overall technical excellence for change control projects across LSM and SA platforms. R&D approver of all technical documentation and reviews.
  • Facilitate effective communication between R&D and other stakeholders between FLKS and TCI for timely execution of sustaining projects. Point of contact for escalation.
  • Ensure compliance with BD quality policies, procedures, and practices through appropriate communication, training, and education of sound quality assurance principles. Responsible for C2C assignment for all SM R&D associates.

Knowledge

• Medical Device and/or pharmaceutical industries

• Minimum 4 years of experience directly leading product development teams

(20+ members) in a cross-functional environment

• Minimum 4 years of leading teams (5+ members) performing design &

verification testing, including creation/execution of test protocols and

procedure, conducting failure investigations, performing data analyses using

MINITAB, STATISTICA, R or other statistical software.

• Proven ability to recruit, build talent and nurture teams through various

milestones in a regulated environment to deliver designs on time, at cost and with quality.

• Demonstrated ability to guide and mentor teams in solid works and other

CAD/CAE tools, expertise in DMAIC/DFSS using Stata, R, SPSS or relevant

statistical package is necessary.

• In-depth understanding of various design tools used in requirement flow-down,

tolerance analyses, loop-equations, FMEA, SPC and risk-retirement is

required.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Skills

• Strong organizational leadership skills.

• Strong interpersonal and influence skills.

• Advanced Problem-solving skills.

• Strong Cross-functional Project Leadership skills.

• Strong technical and managerial judgment.

• Strong communication skills.

• Team orientation.

• Strong skills in project planning and management.

• Broad and deep understanding of disciplined change control processes,

regulatory, and quality requirements.

• Strong motivational fit.

• Strong fit with BD values.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.

We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.

To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.

Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Required Skills

Optional Skills

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Primary Work Location

IND Bengaluru - Technology Campus

Additional Locations

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