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Head of Program Management

Buffalo Grove, Illinois, us💼 Full-time💰 $145,000–$145,000🗓 2026-07-21 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead the Program Management team to plan, organize, and monitor industrialization projects for mass production, ensuring profitability and compliance with NPI processes.

Role type

Senior Program Management Lead (Industrialization)

Builds

Plant projects and mass production systems for drug delivery devices

Domain

Medical device / Pharmaceutical manufacturing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Program management, project management, financial analysis, risk management, recruitment planning, technical proposal development, stakeholder coordination, lean methodology, safety compliance

Preferred skills

Medical device/pharmaceutical industry background, mass production (plastic injection/high-speed assembly), leading multidisciplinary teams, direct customer contact

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Manage Program Management team activities and workloads; Coordinate Project Management team via KPIs; Drive project profitability with finance; Identify and mitigate project risks; Define recruitment needs and manage new hire training; Develop technical answers for Requests for Quotation; Organize local Program Steering Committee; Support lean and continuous improvement initiatives

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with supervisory responsibilities

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