Senior Project Manager Rte

**Are you a current Elekta employee?**   ======================================== Please click here to apply through our internal career site [Find Jobs - Elekta](https://wd3.myworkday.com/elekta/d/task/1422$856.htmld). **Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives?**   =================================================================== We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities. We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details! Description ----------- The Senior Project Manager / Release Train Engineer (RTE) leads projects and cross-functional product lifecycle activities within a Value Stream. This role combines project management responsibilities with the coordination responsibilities of a Release Train Engineer, to ensure predictable delivery, effective execution, and compliance with QMS and applicable regulatory requirements. The position operates at a senior level and manages concurrent development projects and product lifecycle activities across approximately 3-4 cross-functional Scrum teams (approximately 20-30 people). **Responsibilities** -------------------- Project & Portfolio Management: * Plan and manage development projects with typical lead times of 6 months to 1.5 years. * Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, critical path schedules. * Define, track, and govern project gates, decision points, and deliverables. * Manage project risks, dependencies, scope and delivery commitments. * Ensure projects and activities are properly planned, resourced, tracked, and reported. SAFe & ART Leadership (RTE role): * Act as Release Train Engineer (RTE) for the assigned Value Stream / Agile Release Train (ART). * Lead and coordinate execution within the ART in close collaboration with the product manager, system architect, and business owners. * Identify, manage, and remove cross-team impediments and dependencies. * Coordinate and facilitate ART events, incl. PI Planning, System Demos, ART-sync, and Inspect & Adapt. * Actively manage flow and foster continuous improvement within the ART. Planning, Forecasting & Capacity: * Develop, maintain and refine realistic plans, forecasts, and capacity-based delivery commitments. * Align project plans with roadmaps, PI-level execution and team capacity. * Support capacity & demand planning across development and sustaining work. * Provide delivery forecasts, scenarios, and trade-off options to stakeholders and PSG. Regulatory & Quality Integration: * Ensure projects are executed in compliance with applicable standards, regulations and QMS. * Collaborate with RA to develop and execute RA strategies and submissions (e.g. 510(k), CE). * Integrate Design Controls, Risk Management, and DDF/DHF deliverables into plans. * Support design reviews, stage-gate reviews, audits, and regulatory readiness. * Maintain traceability between project plans, SAFe artifacts, and regulated documentation. Stakeholder & Communication Management: * Serve as the primary point of contact regarding project execution and progress. * Provide clear, accurate, and timely status reporting to management and PSG. * Ensure transparency of progress, risks, decisions, and escalations. * Manage communication and expectations with key stakeholders. **Accountable for:** * End-to-end project execution, including planning, coordination, and completion against PSG agreed scope, timelines and budgets. * Ensuring predictable and compliant delivery of projects and product lifecycle activities. * Transparent and timely reporting of project health and ART execution metrics. * Capacity-aligned project budget forecasting, tracking, and proactive variance management. **Authorities** --------------- Authorized to: * Establish and maintain project plans and ART delivery schedules. * Facilitate ART events and apply approved governance and ways of working. * Prepare and submit decision-ready project proposals for review and approval by PSG. * Implement PSG-approved changes to scope, budget and timelines. * Escalate delivery risks, deviations, and decision topics in line with QMS and management governance. * Make operational decisions required to ensure timely and compliant delivery. **Relevant Knowledge, skills and competencies** ----------------------------------------------- **Formal Education:** * Make operational decisions required to ensure timely and compliant delivery. **Experience & Knowledge:** * 10+ years of experience in project or program management, preferably in medical devices. * Proven track record of delivering complex, cross functional projects involving hardware and software. * Experience acting as Release Train Engineer or equivalent. * Experience with MS Projects, Jira, Big Picture, Planview, or similar tools. * Strong understanding of medical device development and regulatory frameworks. * Financial acumen, including budget management and ROI analysis. * Knowledge of RA requirements and processes related to MDR/CE and FDA/510(k). **Preferred Qualifications:** * PMP or PRINCE2 certification * SAFe certification (RTE, SA, or SPC) **Personal Attributes, Skills & Competencies:** * Accountable, structured, and delivery-focused * Strong facilitator and communicator * Clear and concise written and verbal communication, in English and preferably also in Dutch. * Able to manage complexity, dependencies, and trade-offs * Comfortable balancing agility with regulatory rigor in a hybrid SAFe/Agile stage-gate environment. * Solid understanding of capacity & demand planning and forecasting * Accurate, result driven, stress-resistant, and able to deal with ambiguity. * Mindset of collaboration and continuous improvement, even when a topic is of less interest to you. * Proactive attitude; self-starting in recognizing opportunities and realizing improvements.