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Group Manager, Product Development - Clinical IT

IN - Indianapolis

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Opportunity Snapshot

If you have a track record of bringing next-generation products on the cutting edge of healthcare to market, consider this ground floor opportunity to showcase both your strategy development and operational implementation prowess at a world-class biomedical testing company with a legacy of innovation and integrity.

Welcome to Beckman Coulter -- the leading provider of clinical instrumentation that makes a difference in saving and improving the quality of lives around the world! We've just created a brand new Clinical IT business center and are now seeking a savvy PD professional who can define and develop the next generation suite of Clinical IT products that will integrate laboratory instruments, automation, information systems, internet applications, and hospital systems to improve lab efficiencies and patient outcomes. We anticipate this suite of products to hold the key to our future software strategy, enable us to penetrate new market segments and become a transformational force in our company's continued growth.

The challenge? Drawing from your healthcare/clinical IT background, you'll not only articulate the strategic product vision and work with customers to set the look and feel for all future product platforms, but also showcase your project management expertise as you lead a core team of cross-functional business leaders by influence, energize and inspire the team to embrace this vision and drive it to completion.

Your Rewards

With challenge comes opportunity, and if you're up for this challenge, you'll find that our environment is replete with a variety of rewards including:

High impact -- by developing and implementing the roadmap for this major new product platform, you will play a key role in driving new revenue streams and shaping the future direction of our organization.
Challenge & diversity -- far from being pigeonholed into a specific functional area, you'll collaborate with some of the best and brightest people across the site--including Marketing, Supply Chain, Quality, Design and Support)--and have plenty of opportunity to flex your mental agility and drive to results.
Career development -- advancement opportunities and diverse career paths are trademarks of the Beckman Coulter experience, and as you master your accountabilities, you'll be ideally positioned to evolve along multiple career paths.
Empowerment -- we'll entrust you with the freedom and flexibility to drive processes to meet our product development objectives and achieve success; we'll provide you support when you need it and plenty of "elbow room" when you don't.
Best of both worlds -- you'll enjoy the camaraderie and close-knit environment of our small 200-person Indianapolis site, but also benefit from the resources and support of our 2.5 billion dollar parent company headquartered in Fullerton, CA
Excellent benefits -- in addition to a very competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer a robust benefits package that includes low-cost health insurance coverage for you and your family; matching 401(k), paid vacation and holidays; tuition assistance; and more.

Our Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred
10+ years of product development & software development experience including:
- Managing the entire software development life cycle
- Familiarity with C#, C++, or other object- oriented language
- Some experience architecting enterprise-wide information systems
- Experience with the .Net environment
- Knowledge of large-scale database design
- Understanding of software development processes in a regulated environment (FDA/ISO9000).
The ability to engineer profits in a highly competitive market
Experience managing, coaching and developing cross-functional virtual teams
Ability to develop strategic product roadmaps
Advanced project (technical) and program (business) management skills
Solid experience with budgeting and P&L, with the ability to present findings concisely and clearly
Multitasking prowess to handle multiple business priorities simultaneously and prioritize and complete work within stringent deadlines
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to facilitate and engage cross-functional project teams across multiple sites.
Excellent execution skills and a process orientation
Ability to travel to nationwide destinations (about 30%)
Experience in medical device design and development is a plus

More About Your Role

You'll report to the Vice President of Software Platform and lead a core team of 5-6 cross-functional members; each of these members will have an extended team, so overall you'll take ownership of a large project team (100-200 members).

You'll be walking into the planning stage of this project and we'll expect you to hit the ground running and create the momentum to get the first release launched by 2010.

At a high level, you will spend about 30% of your time with strategic planning; another 40% driving the plan forward on a day-to-day basis; and the remaining 30% managing collaboration between cross-functional sites and partners. Specifically your responsibilities are to:

Develop a strategic product roadmap with cross-functional teams.
Coordinate and prioritize product development activities with functional business partners.
Assemble the Product Development team required to make this happen.
Oversee the design, development, verification and validation of design to ensure the timely completion of products at projected costs within specified performance parameters.
Establish and approve operational objectives and assignments, delegating assignments to staff.
Lead multifunctional project teams and manage scientific, engineering, technical and product development staff
Forecast staffing requirements across functional units; develop resource strategies, allocating budgets, staff, tools, and specialized support needed for cost-effective operations.
Develop and motivate staff; conduct employee accountability sessions at regular and frequent intervals and create appropriate interventions and disciplinary practices for non-productive employees.
Approve and/or terminate external resources (contractors).
Develop and maintain strong collaborative partnerships with other companies, academic institutions and opinion leaders.
Keep a pulse on new technologies, competition, customer needs, etc. to anticipate future new product development needs.
Review and monitor operating budgets.
Ensure all FDA, ISO and related regulatory requirements are consistently met.

Keys to Success

The best and most sustainable innovation occurs where creativity intersects with customer needs and pivotal to your success in this role is your ability to champion the overall product development vision; leverage your emotional intelligence to build consensus across department lines; influence those over whom you have no direct authority; and roll out the vision in a timely manner. Other facets of success are to:

Strike an appropriate balance between high-level strategic thinking and hands-on execution of the implementation details.
Integrate well with a multi-site team; you will showcase your team player abilities to collaborate extensively with a virtual team.
Manage effectively to multiple objectives, looking at issues from many different angles and weighing a range of factors and trade-offs in developing strategies.
Constantly survey customer needs and competitive landscape to stay abreast of what is new and successful and quickly determine if and how this knowledge can be harnessed at Beckman Coulter
Bring a high-energy approach, sense of urgency, and solid focus to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment; what happened yesterday is not necessarily what will happen tomorrow.

If this sounds like the right mix of challenge and opportunity for you, and you meet the minimum qualifications, we want to hear from you!

Who We Are

From complex DNA sequencing to simple diagnostic screening kits, Beckman Coulter (NYSE:BEC) is one of the world's largest companies devoted solely to biomedical testing. The company, based in Fullerton, California, reported 2006 annual sales of $2.53 billion with 75 percent of this amount generated by recurring revenue from supplies, test kits and services.

With operations in more than 130 countries, we employ over 11,000 employees including research scientists, engineers, manufacturing associates and other professional and technical staffs. We offer opportunities for every employee to make an impact at Beckman Coulter -- and on the health of people worldwide through our products which support advances in patient care. For additional information, please visit www.beckman.com.