If you’re ready to have an impact in a career that makes a difference, Mölnlycke could be your next step. You’ll be helping to equip medical professionals around the world with solutions to improve outcomes for patients. And you’ll be developing yourself in a global environment with an inspirational culture, with lots of opportunities. All the while building a successful career, with real purpose.

Mölnlycke is now looking for a Product Developer  to join our Gloves R&D team at our new HQ in GoCo Health Innovation City, fitted with state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.

This is a great opportunity to work in an exciting and innovative environment, where you can make a great impact, along with being part of a creative, collaborative and flexible global team with positive spirit!

About the job

As the Gloves Product Developer you will integrate customer needs and voices into the product development projects and roadmap. You will be leading the identification, development and implementation of new products in order to meet customer needs and growth goals.

This position will be a subject matter expert in gloves customers, product development, and project management. In addition, the role will implement ideation, concept development, and evaluation to identify customer-preferred solutions. Also you will execute development and commercialization activities to bring solutions to market.
 

In this position you will partner with R&D team members and external partners to identify and develop enabling technologies to support the innovation projects.

This role gives you the opportunity and requires that you will travel globally now and then and to have a flexible schedule due to working across multiple time zones.

These are the main accountabilities for this position

• Identify and connect customer needs to product solutions through generating new ideas, refining concepts, and commercializing new products.
• Initiate and analyze research to develop the right solutions.
• Project co-leadership, with marketing function, to establish project scope and strategy; managing stage-gate process.
• Lead moderate complexity projects within the product development process to enable smooth transition in the introduction of new products to manufacturing; with cross-functional input, establish project scope, develop timeline and deliverables, identify resource needs, and manage project implementation accordingly.
• Plan and execute VOC and customer feedback at identified milestones in the development process.
• Support the development of product and project roadmap for Innovation and new products.
• Secure necessary IP for own products and monitor IP environment to ensure manufacturability and deliverability of own products.
• Develop new and improvements to product development and project management tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Plan and formulate all aspects of assigned product development projects such as objectives, purpose of projects, application cost of projects, equipment and resources needed.
• Follow project planning processes and procedures.  Provide updates on project status, timeline, and resourcing.  Identify and mitigate project risks and challenges.
• Provide budgetary estimates and manage projects according to committed budgeting decisions.
• Co-operation with R&D and cross-functional partners to develop solutions and deliver project scope.
• Engage and manage stakeholders throughout the project, aligning on scope and project strategic direction and conducting routine updates.
   

What you’ll need

In this role we would like you to have this capabilities, qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Engineering or technical field. Masters or PhD preferred.
• Advanced certifications in Project Management or Product Development will be an added advantage.
• 5+ years of overall experience in product development
• 3+ years of overall experience in medical device
• Experience with a variety of innovation practices including voice of customer, ideation, concept development and design
• Experience leading moderate complexity projects and teams delivering new products to the market
• Preferrable to have experience of leading cross functional projects in an international – multicultural environment.

Core competencies:

• Ability to create actionable projects from high level goals
• Project management tools, processes and skills
• Communication Skills with internal or external stakeholders at different levels of business.
• Analytical Skills to support decision-making based on supporting evidence.
• Strong Organizational Skills to execute and manage project deliverables.
• Knowledge of Global Regulatory Requirements and standards related to medical devices.
• Independent and critical thinking.
• Teamwork in a global cross-cultural environment
• Fluent English written and spoken

This roles requires that you will have the possibility to travel globally now and then and to have a flexible schedule due to working across multiple time zones.
 

What you’ll get

• Wellness benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Great colleagues in a global company
• An open, friendly and fair working atmosphere  
• Competitive compensation package including company pension plan, bonus, company health care
   

Our approach to diversity and inclusion

At Molnlycke diversity is not just a vision, but our strength. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that values and celebrates the power of diversity. At the heart of our commitment is the belief that diversity fuels innovation, creativity and problem-solving. We invite you to be a part of a team where authenticity is embraced, and every employee, regardless of background or any other traits, experiences a true sense of belonging. Your attitude, drive, enthusiasm, and eagerness to learn are just as important to us as the requirements for the role. 

About Mölnlycke

Mölnlycke is a world-leading medical products and solutions company that equips healthcare  professionals to achieve the best patient, clinical and economic outcomes. Our business is organized in the four business areas Wound Care, Operating Room Solutions, Gloves and Antiseptics, where customer centricity, sustainability and digitalisation are at the heart of everything we do.

Mölnlycke employs around 8,700 people. The company headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden and we operate in more than 100 countries worldwide. Mölnlycke is a founding partner of GoCo Health Innovation City, a world-class innovation cluster for health, where HQ is at. Since 2007, the company has been part of Investor AB, an engaged owner of high-quality, global companies which was founded by the Wallenberg family in 1916.

For more information, please visit www.molnlycke.com and www.molnlycke.com/careers

If this sounds like you and you feel you have what it takes to succeed in this role, we want to hear from you as soon as possible.

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