Senior Project Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Project Manager will lead complex New Product Introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives across Bio-Techne with a primary focus on Simple Western and Biologics products. This role partners with R&D, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Commercial teams to deliver instrument, consumable, reagent, and software products from concept through launch and lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex NPI, sustaining engineering, and strategic initiatives across the ASD portfolio, with primary focus on Simple Western and Biologics.
• Drive cross-functional teams through product development, verification, validation, manufacturing transfer, launch, and post-launch activities.
• Develop integrated project plans, critical paths, resource forecasts, and dependency management across hardware, software, consumable, reagent, and manufacturing workstreams.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate technical, schedule, supply chain, quality, and commercialization risks.
• Facilitate phase-gate reviews, design reviews, executive reviews, and portfolio governance activities.
• Partner with Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Commercial teams to achieve project objectives.
• Provide concise executive-level communication on project status, risks, mitigation plans, and decisions required.
• Use data analytics and AI-enabled tools to improve execution, forecasting, reporting, and portfolio visibility.
• Develop portfolio dashboards and metrics using Power BI, Jira, Smartsheet, or other platforms.
• Drive resolution of complex technical and organizational challenges through influence and cross-functional collaboration.
• Coach project managers and contribute to continuous improvement of PMO processes, tools, and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Life Sciences, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of technical project or program management experience in life sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, analytical instrumentation, or a related industry.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent NPI programs and leading cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle.
• Experience collaborating with mechanical, electrical, software, systems, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and supply chain functions.
• Experience presenting project status, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership.
• Experience working in a regulated quality environment, such as ISO 9001, ISO 13485, GMP, or comparable product development controls.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience leading life science instrument or analytical instrument launches.
• Experience with microfluidics, fluidics, cartridges, consumables, capillary electrophoresis, protein characterization, assay development, or with hardware-intensive products.
• Experience with design reviews, systems engineering, verification and validation, manufacturing transfer, pilot builds, and production scale-up.
• PMP or comparable project/program management certification.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to engage engineering teams in detailed product-development discussions.
• Exceptional critical-path, dependency, risk, resource, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-visualization capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex technical information into clear business recommendations and decisions.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity, competing priorities, and resource constraints in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong alignment across distributed teams and sites.