Senior Project Manager

Leica Biosystems April 20, 2026 Full Time Workday

Purpose/Objective:

  • Responsible to deliver instruments, facelifts or product life cycle improvements according to defined timeline, scope, cost and quality targets as leader of a CFT project team.

 

 

Area of Responsibilities:

  • Project Scale:
  • Stand-alone instrument NPD projects, with local development team-based team wheel.
  • Responsibility for scope/ feature definition.
  • Responsibility to create full project VPM.
  • Limited customer segment responsibility.
  • Responsible for financial product calculations (SC/ Rev./ IPV) / project.
  • Accountable to deliver development projects or major design changes within timeline, budget and quality constraints while meeting scope, quality system requirements / compliance rules under guidance
  • Establish and monitor use of tools for project tracking and management
  • Manage the critical path of the project
  • Identify, track and mitigate on key risks (commercial/ technical) together with the core team
  • Align stakeholders and manage expectation under guidance
  • Ensures all team members understand project objectives, and know their roles and responsibilities
  • Assure Productive use of company standards
  • Ensure full compliance of all executed project activities according Leica and regulatory standards (FDA; ISO 13485)
  • Controls project costs and support preparing accurate forecast on R&D cost and capital expenses under guidance
  • Supports maintenance of department-specific processes and tool under guidance

 

 

 

Person Specification:

Skills / Competencies

  • Ability to efficient use and improve Project Management tools and techniques;
  • Expert in ADP, DCR, OEM process;
  • Effective communication skills;
  • Ability to apply PSP Process to drive project results;
  • Cross functional experience on global teams and/ or project higher complexity;
  • Empathetic (able to see from multiple perspectives);
  • Experience use of key DBS tools;
  • Solid change management skills;
  • Experienced with risk management techniques and methodologies;
  • Ability to analyse complex situations;
  • Financial experience.

 

Functional knowledge

  •    Demonstrates and applies conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and is able to apply knowledge in related disciplines.

 

Business expertise

  •    Applies knowledge of best practices and analyses which best practices should be applied in own team to achieve differentiation in the market.

 

Leadership

  • Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements.

 

Problem solving

  • Demonstrated ability to leverage PSP to solve complex problems independently; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on limited set of data.

 

Impact

  •  Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies

 

Interpersonal skills

  • Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus

 

Experience

  • 5 years of experience working in CFT teams for NPI development projects in industrial environment, preferred medical environment;
  • 2 year working experience as sub-project manager in NPI or project manager for major facelift or life cycle projects.

 

Language

  • Native Chinese & Good English.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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