Job Summary

The R&D; Project Manager leads projects with full accountability for outcomes, ensuring timely delivery, quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction. The role requires strong collaboration with cross-functional teams, Product Managers, and Product Owners. Familiarity with Agile methodologies is an advantage, as they can help drive innovation, speed, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership &

- Execution

- Manage R&D; projects end-to-end, ensuring delivery within defined scope, cost, time, and quality.

- Drive alignment of project targets with R&D; strategy, product portfolio, and technology roadmap.

- Steer project budgets, resources, and agreements.

- Leverage knowledge of project management best practices and, where applicable, apply Agile principles, methods, and frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, or similar) to enable adaptive planning, early value delivery, and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder &
- Team Collaboration

- Collaborate with Product Managers/Product Owners and other stakeholders to define and deliver project objectives.

- Foster cross-functional teamwork, transparency, and knowledge sharing.

- Incorporate customer feedback into project execution to ensure satisfaction and business success.

Compliance &
- Governance

- Ensure adherence to architecture, design, quality, product safety, and product security guidelines.

- Ensure compliance with standards, regulations, working laws, and intellectual property rights.

- Manage risks and opportunities proactively, escalating issues for timely decisions when necessary.

Continuous Improvement &
- Innovation

- Promote reuse, cooperation, lessons learned, and best practice sharing.

- Identify opportunities for intellectual property and align with patent strategies.

Documentation &
- Reporting

- Ensure accurate and complete project documentation.





- Maintain transparency on progress, work items, and outcomes across teams and stakeholders.

Skills &
- Qualifications

- 8-10 years of overall industry experience in technology, engineering, preferable in healthcare domain.

- Minimum 3-4 years of relevant experience in R&D; project management or similar leadership roles

- Proven experience in managing R&D; projects, preferably in technology, engineering, or healthcare domains.

- Knowledge of Agile Principles and Methodologies

- Experience in handling projects with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, or similar) is an advantage, but not mandatory.

- Excellent stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills.

- Ability to manage budgets, resources, risks, and project governance effectively.

- Knowledge of regulatory standards, compliance, product safety, and intellectual property rights.

- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and continuous improvement mindset.

- Bachelor s or Master s degree in Engineering, Science, or related field
- PMP/Agile certifications are a plus.

- Positive to have: Experience in JAMA, Azure DevOps, Monday.com, MDSAP

Personal Attributes

- Energetic self-starter with creative approaches to solving complex problems.

- Self-motivated and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to handle high pressure situations & multitasking.

- Ability to communicate effectively with cross cultural teams spanning globally

- Open to travel to remote locations nationwide as needed.

- Must have strong analytical abilities and out of the box thinking abilities.

- Flexible work schedule to meet demands of position and call-schedule.

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📌 Project Manager (Pune)
🏢 Varian Medical Systems International India
📍 Pune