Project Manager

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cepheid, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.  You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life. At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate, molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team, you’ll get to make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale, within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the world’s most complex health challenges. Together, we bring MORE change to the world. Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible. The Project Manager, Systems (Hardware, Firmware & Software) leads complex, cross-functional medical device projects across hardware, embedded firmware, application software, cybersecurity, systems engineering, manufacturing, and service readiness from concept through development, verification and validation, regulatory support, launch, and post-market sustainment. This position reports to the Senior Manager and is part of the Program Management Office [PMO] located in India, Bengaluru and will be an on-site role.     In this role, you will have the opportunity to: Lead cross-functional systems projects with accountability for scope, schedule, resources, budget, quality, technical performance, and delivery across all key functions. Build and maintain integrated project plans covering requirements, design reviews, verification and validation, regulatory activities, manufacturing transfer, launch readiness, dependencies, critical paths, and recovery actions. Establish Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid governance, facilitate core-team and phase-gate reviews, and document decisions, risks, actions, escalations, owners, and due dates. Partner with technical and functional leaders to integrate hardware, firmware, and software while ensuring interoperability, requirements traceability, configuration control, and coordinated system testing. Ensure compliance with Cepheid’s Quality Management System and applicable design-control and software-lifecycle processes, including required project, risk, verification, validation, cybersecurity, design-transfer, and launch documentation. Manage program and product-development risks, issues, and opportunities using risk-based decisions, structured problem solving, mitigation plans, and timely escalations. Track and communicate schedule, budget, resource, risk, quality, and milestone performance while coordinating commercialization, launch, lifecycle changes, and continuous improvement.