Be part of something altogether life-changing!

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. With associates across 40+ countries, Cytiva is a place where every day is a learning opportunity – so you can grow your career and expand your skills in the long term.

Forming part of the Biotechnology segment at Danaher, we bring together dedicated technical expertise and talent to develop the next generation of life-changing therapeutics.

The Senior Director, Cell Therapy R&D for Cytiva is responsible for leading the global R&D function and driving the Business Unit’s product development and technology strategy. In collaboration with the Business Unit’s leadership team, this position will create innovation and technology strategies while ensuring achievement of growth and profitability objectives. This role will provide leadership and coaching to a multifaceted R&D organization to ensure workforce effectiveness and support of the overall operations of the business.

This position is part of the Cell Therapy Business Unit located in Signy, Switzerland and will be on-site. At Cytiva, our vision is, to advance future therapeutics from discovery to delivery.

What you will do:

• Develop a technology strategy with product and platform roadmaps and required capabilities to deliver the business strategy, together with Product leader, Strategy leader, and Chief Technology Officer.

• Lead global R&D investments, ensuring alignment to the Business Unit strategy, and facilitating prioritization across various projects in the portfolio.

• Ensure product and technology development across the Business Unit’s projects and sustaining engineering activities, manage the full product lifecycle. Execute on program plans for quality, cost and schedule targets. Drive execution of product development activities that are cross-functional and multi-site.

• Continually monitor technological changes, market trends, competitive products/pricing to identify and analyze products, services and solutions to be developed and delivered to the marketplace. Accelerate market entry to outpace competitors.

• Partner with other functions including Product, Marketing, Strategy, Sales, and the Central Technology Organization (CTO) to assess new technologies and other strategic opportunities aligned to market trends and customer needs.

• Communicate the business strategy and tactics clearly to the global team and provide feedback to colleagues, the leadership team and other Business Unit teams on progress, opportunities and challenges.

• Lead the R&D team, creating trusted relationships with team members. Understand what they value and support them in achieving their development goals. Coach the team to enhance their network and identify challenging / stretch roles or projects to support career progression.

• Create a performance driven and result oriented culture, keep customers and patient needs at the heart of our innovation.

Who you are:

• 15+ years' experience in R&D/ Product Management in a related Life Sciences field ideally with direct linkage to Cell Therapy market or manufacturing.

• Demonstrated relevant experience in product strategy, R&D strategy or strategic development.

• Demonstrated track record across Innovation programs, New Product Development and Product Engineering/ Sustaining phases of R&D.

• Demonstrated experience of leading large teams/ functions, managing leaders as well as leading change.

• Fluency in English language (written and spoken); French will be an asset.

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Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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