Senior Manager, Design Transfer

Overview

In this senior role, you drive the transfer of new and modified products from R&D to manufacturing, enabling Abbott Diabetes Care to scale support for millions of customers. You will align Quality, Operations, Engineering, Regulatory, and R&D to ensure compliant, efficient transitions from development to production. You’ll lead validation strategies and risk management to safeguard product quality across global sites and partners. This position offers strategic influence on manufacturing readiness and how innovative diabetes technologies reach patients. You’ll work in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment with a strong focus on compliance and continuous improvement.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus opportunity
• defined benefit pension
• private healthcare
• life assurance
• flexible benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, planning and execution of design transfer activities for new products, changes and manufacturing improvements
• Drive commercialization of diabetes care technologies from development into global manufacturing operations
• Collaborate with cross-functional and cross-site stakeholders to ensure successful product launches and business continuity
• Ensure compliance with Abbott Quality Systems and regulatory requirements (FDA, ISO)
• Support site selection and onboarding for product transfers (Abbott and external)
• Lead validation strategies (process, test method, manufacturing qualification)
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance quality, operational performance and regulatory compliance
• Provide leadership, coaching, and technical guidance across quality engineering and project teams
• Act as SME during regulatory inspections and quality audits
• Manage risk using DFMEA, PFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis and other methods

Key requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering or related discipline
• Progressive experience in the medical device industry
• Leadership or management experience
• Strong knowledge of medical device regulations and quality systems (FDA, ISO 13485) and risk management principles
• Extensive experience in product development lifecycles, design controls, design transfer, process validation and change management
• Proven leadership of complex cross-functional projects across multiple sites
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, quality systems and product commercialization
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence across levels in a fast-paced global environment
• Experience with contract manufacturers and global supply chains (advantageous)

• communication
• relationship-building
• stakeholder management
• design transfer
• process validation
• change management

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