Job Description
This position sits within a global pharmaceutical leader’s Engineering department, supporting the development and delivery of next‑generation connected products. You’ll be central to transforming concepts into commercialised products, ensuring operational, engineering, supply chain, quality, and regulatory requirements are fully captured and executed.
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You’ll work closely with cross‑functional product and platform teams, collaborating with R&D groups in the UK, USA, and Israel. The role requires strong leadership across matrix teams, ownership of NPI execution, and tight coordination with contract manufacturers and suppliers.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Oversee delivery of new hardware products into manufacturing, ensuring smooth handover from development to production.
- Coordinate cross‑functional teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and regulatory to align on requirements and timelines.
- Build structured project plans, manage risks, track progress, and ensure milestones are met.
- Prepare production environments for launch, including documentation, processes, tooling, and quality controls.
- Work closely with external manufacturing partners to support line setup, transfers, and issue resolution.
- Maintain accurate product information such as BOMs, revisions, part numbers, and production instructions.
- Manage engineering changes throughout the product lifecycle and ensure updates are implemented correctly.
- Keep PLM/ERP systems updated with complete and compliant product data.
- Support problem‑solving across manufacturing, procurement, logistics, supplier quality, and regulatory teams.
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Your Profile
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- Degree in Industrial Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Strong background in engineering, operations, or manufacturing, ideally with experience launching new products.
- Solid project management skills with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Good understanding of manufacturing processes, production readiness, supply chain planning, and supplier/CMO engagement.
- Experience working with external manufacturing partners or third‑party production environments.
- Comfortable managing documentation, BOM structures, revision control, and engineering change processes.
- Familiar with PLM/ERP systems; knowledge of Teamcenter is a plus.
- Strong Excel skills and proficiency across Microsoft Office.
- Clear communicator able to work across different functions and global teams.
- Organised, detail‑focused, and confident taking ownership of deliverables.
- Fluent in English and able to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
- Willing to travel occasionally for supplier or project‑related work.
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ABOUT PLANET PHARMA
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Planet Pharma is an American parented Employment Business/Agency that provides global staffing services with its head-quarters in Chicago and our EMEA regional office located in Central London. We have invested significantly in creating a robust international platform that enables us to work compliantly in 30+ countries with a current network of 2500+ active contractors globally as well as a very strong permanent / direct hire recruitment offering.
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Our specialist knowledge and close relationships with our clients and the wider industry really makes us unique in our field. Just recently we were recognised by FORBES as the 17th best professional staffing firm, and have won multiple awards from industry accredited bodies for our commitment to excellence and service delivery. We have extensive functional expertise including: Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, QA, QC, Submissions experts, Clinical development, Quality, Biostatistics, and Medical Affairs / Writing.
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We are an equal opportunities Recruitment Business and Agency.
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We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
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www.planet-pharma.com
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