R&D Manager-Exploratory

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role:

Boston Scientific’s Vascular Therapies business is experiencing rapid growth, resulting in a robust project and product pipeline. An R&D Manager - Exploratory is needed to develop technology strategy, execute exploratory projects, and to support and develop an engineering team. The focus of the role is on leading early-stage exploratory projects evaluating new technologies and clinical applications to support pipeline development and future investments within the Vascular Therapies business. In this leadership role, you will guide a team of engineers and technicians and collaborate with senior technical staff across product development teams to plan and execute initiatives aimed at de-risking new technologies and investments. 

The ideal candidate combines technical expertise with strong leadership, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills to foster innovation and deliver breakthrough results.

Work Mode:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an onsite work model, requiring employees to be present in our Maple Grove, MN office, at least four to five days per week.

Visa Sponsorship:
Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Facilitate development through definition of unmet need, specification development, prototyping, and in vitro and vivo evaluation, and clinical feedback.
• Partner with physicians, upstream marketing/strategy, and Medical Affairs to define unmet clinical needs.
• Prioritization: Taking stakeholder input, agreeing to priorities, ensuring alignment towards meeting critical goals.
• Participate in setting business strategy and product pipeline recommendations.
• Design, prototype and develop novel solutions to enable new therapies, improve performance, and increase ease of use in clinical procedures.
• Create and present strategic product development recommendations to divisional leadership.
• Establish and maintain partnerships with OEM suppliers, development partners, and other vendors as projects require.
• Provides guidance and training to staff, assists subordinates in attaining career goals, motivates individuals to achieve results, and recruits and maintains a high-quality staff.
• Direct supervision of team of 3-6 engineers and technicians.

Required qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering
• Experience: 8+ years total experience in R&D function in medical devices
• Highly organized, energetic, self-starter who exhibits strong communication skills with cross-functional team members, project leads, and physician advisors.
• Strong ability to learn new knowledge areas, including anatomy, physiology, and clinical research
• Direct/functional people management experience
• Travel to internal sites for collaboration and to customer sites to support products.  Approximately 20% or less.

Preferred qualifications:

• Preferred engineering disciplines: Biomedical, Mechanical, Materials. Advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with processing equipment to build catheter-based devices and/or nitinol implants
• Project Management and/or Technical Leadership experience a plus

Requisition ID: 621157

Minimum Salary: $99100 

Maximum Salary: $188300 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

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As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. 

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

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