Research and development program manager
Pubblicato il 17-10-2026 - Iba in Lombardia
Mission As a Program Manager, you will lead the Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) programs, reporting to the Head of Program Management in Proton Therapy R&D.; The role is responsible for turning service and product improvement needs into a coherent portfolio of initiatives that maximizes customer value, operational performance, and business impact while ensuring alignment across Product Management, Service, Regulatory and R&D.; The first program is a strategic program aiming at adapting the way our Proton Therapy centers operate and improve reliability and stability of our system.
The program takes place in a context of large growth of the installed base ; has large strategic impact directly impacting IBA's P&L; ; is monitored at executive level ; and is already on-going with multiple product developments within R&D; and non-product projects coordinated with Service. Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) is a new program responsible for capturing, evaluating and governing improvements to existing product on the installed base.
The Program Manager will establish and operate the governance framework, perform value-based prioritization, ensure stakeholders alignment (service, product management, component managers etc.), facilitate stewardship principle in an Agile context and provide visibility on the overall improvement portfolio and its return on investment. The Program Manager works closely with Product Management, other Program Managers and Chief Product Owner to ensure coherence at roadmap level.
He partners as well with Component Managers and Product Owners for effective management of scope, priorities and dependencies across the different components of our system. The role provides transparency on progress, risks and value delivery, enabling informed decision-making at senior leadership including executive/C-level. Challenges we trust you with Translate business objectives into a coherent portfolio of service profitability and product improvement initiatives.
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