Ikerian AG (formely RetinAI Medical) is a fast-growing medical device software company headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. Our mission is to enable the right decisions sooner in healthcare, through transformative AI & data management solutions for disease screening and monitoring. Join our diverse team of entrepreneurs, developers, researchers, and commercial experts who are collectively shaping the future of healthcare.
We're looking for a Junior Research Project Manager to join our team. If you're excited about shaping the future of health-tech and enjoy a hands-on approach to problem-solving, we're eager to speak to you!
The general Project Manager responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
- Develop a detailed project plan to track progress.
- Lead project teams with multi-disciplinary internal resources and customers for the execution of customer projects according to the project plan.
- Support the definition of research questions and analysis plans
- Identify, analyse and mitigate project risks in a timely manner and escalate issues to line managers
- Ensure that the assigned projects are delivered according to customer satisfaction (on-time, within scope, budget and requirements).
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders to build mutually beneficial results.
- Ensure resource availability and allocation.
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
- Communicate and report project progress, major risks, issues and changes to plan; escalate to management as needed in a timely manner.
- Support regulatory documentation and quality reviews.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to lead smaller to medium teams including resources and time planning, progress tracking, status updates
- Knowledge in effort estimation and project planning for smaller to medium projects
- Strong sense of communication and being able to transfer information between technical and non-technical teams.
- Good knowledge of stakeholder management to ensure opinions are considered
- Able to lead by example
- Knowledge in conflict management, able to identify conflict situations and discuss solutions with senior members
- Knowledge in scope management, able to Identify change requests and scope creeps and escalates to senior members.
- Good knowledge of project risk management, able to identify common project risks and to mitigate or escalate them to senior members
- Understands project management processes
- Good understanding of cloud-based software and SaaS
- 1+ years of experience in managing research projects, including data acquisition, data clean up and data analysis
- Strong ability to work remotely and affinity to work with online tools
- Sound Background in regulatory compliance for medical devices (MDR / FDA) is a plus
- Background in data science or statistics is a plus
- Background knowledge in Ophthalmology is a plus
Benefits
- A chance to be part of an exceptional team driving innovation in healthcare.
- A competitive salary in a supportive work environment that fosters work-life balance.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development in an international setting.
- A culture of collaboration and inclusion, which is fundamental to our ethos.
- Remote work with annual in-person team gatherings.
- Hardware and software support for a seamless remote work experience.
- Participation in the company's Employee Stock Option Plan.
We invite qualified candidates eager to make a difference in healthcare technology to apply.
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