Innovation Lab Manager

Innovation - Diversity - 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.           

Innovation Lab Manager   -   Endoscopy

Marlboro MA

About the role

As Innovation Lab Manager, you will lead a multidisciplinary team across R&D labs, machine shop and equipment within the Endoscopy (Endo) division of Boston Scientific

In this role you will interact with every project team within Endoscopy. There is exposure and collaboration across the entire organization from Marlborough to Costa Rica to Ireland to India and beyond.

There is a real sense of ownership as the go-to contact for the organization’s testing, equipment, fixturing, and lab needs.  You will use, research, and purchase state-of-the-art equipment that is used to develop life-saving medical devices.

In this role, each day presents a new challenge and you learn creative problem solving skills across many competencies including engineering, facilities maintenance, project management, and people management

Your responsibilities include:

• Hiring, coaching, and/or developing machinists, technicians, and other technical employees.
• Overseeing staffing levels and budgets
• Developing equipment plans and needs aligning with strategic growth of the business
• Managing workflows for areas of responsibility. Will supervise non-exempt employees and collaborate with external partners
• Fostering a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Creating an entrepreneurial environment.
• Keeping the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrating effective change leadership
• Building strategic partnerships across Boston Scientific to further departmental and organizational objectives
• Developing and executing organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitoring compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Making decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.

Minimum Required Qualifications

• 1+ years of work experience managing people (business or military)
• Experience with labs and/or machine shop methodologies
• Ability to manage a diverse group of employees
• Budgetary experience
• Demonstrated capability to produce innovative solutions across many competencies including engineering, facilities maintenance, project management, and people management.
• Personal drive, individual accountability & a strong bias for action.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated leadership in recent role
• Willingness to work onsite at our Marlboro, MA location 3+ days per week

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in regulated environment (medical, military, or defense)
• Military positions that would align with this role: Unit Supply Sergent, Logistics Officer, Quartermaster Officer, Ordinance Office, Maintenance Officer or possibly Engineering Officer.

Requisition ID: 598151 

Base Salary Range

Minimum Salary: $ 103700 

Maximum Salary: $ 197000 

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

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 identify, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement.  The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.