Project Manager in R&D (m/f/d)

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Formed in 2019 through the merger of Sivantos and Widex, WS Audiology combines over 140 years of experience in pioneering better solutions to help people with hearing loss. With a passion for impact, our 11.000 employees are committed to achieving our purpose: wonderful sound for all.

With brands like Signia, Widex, Audio Service, Rexton and Vibe, and with diverse assets across wholesale retail, online, managed care and diagnostic solutions, we are active in over 125 markets. Going beyond together, we achieve annual revenues of around EUR 2 billion.

As a global leader, our ambition is to unlock human potential by making wonderful sound part of everyone’s life.

Learn about us on www.wsa.com and take a look at why you will love working here:

As a Project Manager (m/f/d) for Hearing Aids in our Technical Project Management Team in Erlangen you will be responsible to initiate, plan and execute project activities. You will closely work with international cross-functional R&D teams as well as support functions such as Quality, Procurement, Operation and Marketing.

Together with your team you will identify project risks and will establish counter measures. Project closure via learning from success and failure of the project together with the project team is part of the project manager job. Our projects follow our defined PLM process.

You will report to our Head of Technical Project Management.

In this role you will have the following responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate new product introduction activities to ensure material readiness and smooth transition of design transfer activities to mass production
• Ensure that project objectives and deliveries meet scope, quality, time and costs
• Project monitoring, controlling and regularly reporting to the project stakeholders and senior management
• Program management support
• Leading international project teams
• Coordination of all internal departments involved
• Responsibility for the entire project documentation
• Control of external partners

We expect you to have already successfully managed product projects in R&D - preferably consumer products or in the automotive sector. In addition, you are a strong communicator, knowing when to insist and when to compromise. You are a team player, ask for feedback and have constructive discussions with your colleagues. Creativity, attention to detail and a cooperative attitude are some of your strengths.

You most likely fit the following profile:

• Successfully completed university degree in engineering or adequate training
• At least 3 years of professional experience in product development of electronic or electromechanical systems
• Experience in project work, ideally in an international context
• Project management experience in development projects required
• Good knowledge of electronics, electromechanics or software development
• Basic knowledge of audiology is desirable
• Knowledge of the regulatory standards for medical devices is desirable
• Very good process understanding
• Basic knowledge of logistics and production processes
• Taking over initiative, motivated and result orientated
  
• Ability to learn fast
• Customer focused
  

Our corporate language is English, so you need to be confident in English, both verbally and in writing.

We are driven by innovation and development so working with us is a constant learning curve. You will be located in our site in Erlangen, Germany with dynamic and progressive colleagues, who are highly skilled and empathetic.

We offer flexible working times & opportunities for working from home. You can always get free coffee at the office. We are part of the IG Metall tariff agreement offering attractive compensation and futher benefits like contributions to the company pension plan or child-care.

If this opportunity sounds interesting to you, please submit your application stating your earliest starting date and your salary expectations and we will get back to you as soon as possible.