The Program Manager leads/supports Cytek Product Development or Product Improvement projects from Concept to Commercialization meeting the Project Scope, Quality, Cost, and Timing Objectives.
Acts as project core team leader, facilitating problem identification and resolution, along with tracking overall project success and status.
Requires working closely with leadership and finance teams to develop project and departmental budgets.
Provides leadership in executing and preparing portfolio reviews for leadership, and acts as owner for assigned related product lines, product families or business segments (i.e. RUO, Clinical, Software) to ensure cross functional alignment in technology development, development, and sustaining efforts.
Facilitates and leads efforts to develop and build product roadmaps working with R&D, Marketing and Executive Leadership.
May be asked to support projects and programs related to business operations including IT programs, site/manufacturing transfers, business acquisition, or other projects as assigned.
Supports metric/data collection and KPI collection to inform business decisions and track strategy execution.
This includes development, maintenance and report outs for executive and core team level dashboards (i.e. PowerBI, SmartSheet, VBA).
Lead efforts to review product roadmap with executive leadership team and facilitate formal project approval onto the portfolio roadmap.
Supports monthly/quarterly portfolio reviews and data preparation.

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Biology or Biochemistry (Required)
Master’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or Finance (Preferred, not required)
Professional certification (i.e. PMP) (Preferred, not required)
At least 5 years of experience working with the development, implementation or commercialization of instrumentation, software and/or reagents supporting Life Science, Pharmaceutical, Diagnostic or Medical Device industries.
At least 1 year managing and developing project or department budgets
Experience in a management or technical lead role (Preferred, not required)
Hands-on experience with instrumentation design, development, or commercialization; background in optics or optical systems strongly preferred (Preferred, not required)
Proficiency in Mandarin (spoken and/or written) (Preferred, not required)
Proven experience building, mentoring, and growing cross-functional teams; track record of fostering a collaborative, inclusive team culture that accelerates delivery and retains talent (Preferred, not required)

Program Manager

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