NPI Project Manager Medical

• A completed HBO or WO degree in a technical or business administration direction, such as Engineering Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or similar.

• At least 5 years of experience as a Project Manager, Program Manager, or NPI Manager within medical technology, high-tech, or another highly regulated industry.

• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI), industrialization, production introductions, and managing multidisciplinary project teams.

• Knowledge of quality standards and regulations within regulated environments, such as ISO 13485 and FDA guidelines, is a plus.

• Experience with risk management, validation processes, change management, and managing project objectives regarding quality, schedule, and cost.

• You are a proactive, result-oriented, and customer-oriented professional with strong communication skills and a natural talent for stakeholder management.

As an NPI Project Manager Medical, you play a key role in the successful introduction of medical products within a highly regulated environment. You operate at the intersection of customer, engineering, quality, and operations, ensuring that new medical products are introduced into production safely, compliantly, and according to schedule.

From innovative medical devices to complex electronic systems: you monitor the progress, quality, risks, and results of multiple NPI projects simultaneously. With your entrepreneurial attitude, eye for detail, and strong stakeholder management, you know how to bring together the interests of customers, internal teams, and regulations.

You understand that within the medical sector, quality, patient safety, and compliance are just as important as scheduling, costs, and delivery reliability.

• Drafting, planning, and realizing NPI projects from start to successful transfer to serial production.

• Translating customer and product requirements to a multidisciplinary project team.

• Monitoring project objectives regarding quality, cost, schedule, and compliance.

• Assessing the impact of changes on product quality, validations, risks, supply chain, and production processes.

• Coordinating activities surrounding industrialization, process validations, and product introductions.

• Functional management of multidisciplinary teams consisting of, among others, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, and Operations.

• Maintaining close relationships with customers and acting as the primary point of contact throughout the entire NPI process.

You translate customer wishes, product requirements, and regulations into concrete project plans and ensure that multidisciplinary teams collaborate efficiently to complete projects successfully and according to applicable quality standards.

At Benchmark, you work on products that matter! Additionally, we are ideally an organization where you are given freedom, where entrepreneurship is rewarded, and in which you are given the space to bring your ideas to fruition. We offer you a dynamic environment with the space to make rapid strides, to grow, and to take responsibility. You are part of a global company where the down-to-earth Twente culture has been preserved.

In addition, we offer:

• Good salary: with a range between €5,281 and €7,377 gross per month based on a full-time work week and depending on your previous work experience and educational background.

• Quarterly bonus: this is dependent on turnover and can amount to a maximum of 5% of your quarterly salary.

• Vacation: enjoy 40 days off per year (27 vacation days and 13 ATV days).

• Room for growth and development opportunities: for example, by participating in one of the many trainings of our Benchmark Academy, but also by following training courses that match your wishes and ours as an organization.

• Flexible working hours: as long as you ensure your work is finished, we offer the possibility to schedule your working hours in a flexible manner.

• ·Collaboration: through initiatives such as Lunch & Learn sessions, we learn from and with each other, and thanks to our Pitch Discovery Sessions, there is always room to work on your own projects and with new techniques.

In this role, you combine strong project management skills with knowledge of product introductions within a regulated medical environment. You know how to structure complex projects, connect stakeholders, and keep risks manageable without losing sight of the end goal.