Director R&D Operations, Medsurg

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Job Description:

Director R&D Operations, Medsurg

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
The Director of RD Operations will report to the Senior Vice President (SVP) of MedSurg RD and play a critical role in partnering with the RD Leadership Team to drive strategic decision-making and organizational performance improvements. This position provides high-level strategic and financial support to the SVP while keeping them abreast of current issues. This position will make judgments and decisions on behalf of the SVP on a regular basis and respond to leadership team requests. This position will be responsible for facilitating effective organizational processes including leading monthly financial reviews with leadership team members aligned with the Finance department, ensuring improvement in all areas of RD Operations to increase efficiency and effectiveness driving accountable and overseeing global RD laboratory operations for MedSurg RD.

This position will be responsible for facilitating effective organizational processes including leading monthly financial reviews with leadership team members aligned with the Finance department. Additionally, this leader will be responsible for ensuring improvement in all areas of RD Operations to increase efficiency and effectiveness driving accountable, as well as overseeing global RD laboratory operations for MedSurg RD.

As the Director of R&D Operations, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

• Partner with the RD Leadership Team to identify and prioritize strategic operational and business objectives. Assist the SVP in developing and managing the financial plans/budgets required to drive product development excellence while tracking and balancing expenditure.

• Facilitate cross-functional integration: Connect operating mechanisms cross functionally. Introduce structure, processes, and mechanisms as necessary to enhance alignment and facilitate information sharing. Grasp the interconnections between various initiatives and projects, discern who requires what information, and ensure that key individuals are present in pertinent discussions; serve as a knowledge hub for the RD leadership team.

• Laboratory Oversight: Manage and oversee laboratory operations across MedSurg RD. Establish and maintain best practices while enabling continuing operations in support of innovation objectives and commitments.

• Goal development and alignment: Maintain organizational alignment to top priorities and goals. Translate strategic goals into operational and financia