Sr. Manager, Research & Development Process & Product Design

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you'll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers.

We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Sr. Manager Research & Development Process & Product Design,you will be trusted to work on improving or developing new products, components, equipment, systems, or processes including ensuring that research and design methodologies meet established scientific and engineering standards. This role is on-site in our Fort Worth, Texas location and a typical day would include:

• Creating and developing system architectures and designs that meet specific requirements
• Ensuring that various subsystems work together seamlessly
• Providing ongoing support and maintenance for systems, including troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Working with other teams and stakeholders to ensure systems meet business needs and integrate with other processes
• Partner with Post-Production Leads to track against a master schedule to manage risk reviews and cascading documentation revisions to support compliance.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets
• Manages schedules, and prepares status reports
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and alerts for when to escalate schedule delays, keep all stakeholders informed of progress and issues
• Provide comprehensive tracking and monitoring for the team using project management expertise and software
• Integrate program specific requirements into relevant business systems
• Monitor and report team activities against project plan to identify deviations from planned timing, budget or scope
• Use appropriate communication tools to ensure that all project customers are informed of project status
• Facilitate team meetings with agendas, minutes, and action items
• Assure that project support activities of functional teams are aligned with the plan
• Use appropriate communication tools to ensure that all project customers are informed of project status
• Facilitate risk management of projects and escalation/mitigation of significant deviations
• Facilitate project team meetings with agendas, minutes, and action items
• Assure that project support activities of functional teams are aligned with the plan
• Work with Finance and Functions to build budgets and monitor actual vs. expected spend

What You'll Bring to Alcon:

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school+15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
• 7 Years of Relevant Experience

How You Can Thrive at Alcon:

• Join Alcon's mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!
• Alcon provides robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off, and much more!
• Travel Requirements: up to 10%
• Relocation assistance: No
• Sponsorship available: No

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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.