Job Description

Senior Product Developer

Location： Shanghai

Help us make breakthrough innovations in healthcare

If you’re ready to have an impact in a career that makes a difference, Mölnlycke could be your next step. You’ll be helping to equip medical professionals around the world with solutions to improve outcomes for patients.

Purpose of Position

Lead the external development and implementation of new products, solutions and/or design changes of existing products within China. Responsible to ensure value delivery, by securing a well-defined scope that meets customer needs and maintain supply, compliance, and competitiveness.

What you'll do

• Project Execution: Drive and/or execute new product integration, complex pre-development and design control projects with business impact with external partners. Ensure defining a clear project scope. Act as Project manager for sub-projects or projects with limited complexity.
• Design control: Secure design control activities are identified, planned, and executed. Consider different Design Control strategies and promote the most effective approach to be compliant while maintaining a balanced alignment with agreed timelines and cost constraints
• Innovation & customer insight: Identify incremental, adjacent, and transformational innovation opportunities. Plan and drive customer insight work to identify and/or validate opportunities in relation to our strategic focus. Lead the work to translate user needs to product requirements ensuring the right product is developed. Maintain good knowledge of competitors and relevant technologies.
• Problem solving: Secure that complex problems are addressed in a structured manner. Find multiple alternative paths to ensure a pragmatic and holistic approach to solve the problem.
• Communication Engage stakeholders, including team members and customers, to ensure their involvement and commitment. Communicate content, risk and status to maintain quality in project or activity reporting.
• Continuous improvements: Drive knowledge transfer and continuous improvement activities to enhance overall product development efficiency. Promote and support product development best practice within the organization.
• Leadership: Ensure authentic leadership and demonstrated ability to lead and motivate colleagues, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.

What you'll get

Competitive salary depending on experience
Annual bonus
Monthly allowance
Annual holiday plus bank holidays
Life assurance and Income protection
Genuine career longevity and professional development opportunities
Employee Assistance Programme

What you'll decide

• Decision mandate in accordance with appointed role in Mölnlycke PLM
• Decision mandate in accordance with appointed role in design and change projects

What you'll need

• Innovation and customer focus: Building strong customer relationships and combines this with innovative mindset to both develop and seek external opportunities for innovative solutions to complex challenges. Effectively building formal and informal relationships inside and outside the organization. Learn through experimentation when tackling a new problem using both successes and failures as learning input. Good knowledge of all steps in IP generation.
• Project management skills: Good knowledge of project management tools and methods and ensures that project is delivered in line with set expectations on scope, time & budget. Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Business acumen: Strong business orientation, analytical skills and excellent ability to ensure timely decisions, moving the assigned tasks forward. Maintain a clear view of the broader context and thoughtfully balance quality and speed—guided by business risk and the need to deliver timely, effective outcomes. Knowledge of and commitment to sustainable practices.
• Sustainability: Understand and apply sustainable design principles throughout the product lifecycle, proactively identifying business relevant opportunities to reduce environmental impact.
• Stakeholder management: Ability to influence and adapt to multiple stakeholders to ensure progress and maintain commitment. Experience from working cross-functionally in a matrix environment.
• Effective Communication: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage and resilience: Steps up to address difficult issues and dare to challenge status quo. Rebound from setbacks and adversity when faced with difficult situations. Operates effectively even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.
• Fluent English written and spoken.
• Deep engineering skills & technical knowledge in assigned medical device area
• Excellent skills in data driven hypothesis building and decision taking
• Good knowledge of relevant development and problem-solving tools.
• Good understanding of wounds and skin and deep knowledge in assigned product area
• Proven knowledge of Global Regulatory Requirements and standards related to medical device.
• Deep knowledge in Mölnlycke QMS and Design control
• Assigned business area knowledge

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree or Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry or life science or equivalent
• 8 years’ experience within product development with proven track record of executing a development project from customer need to launch.
• At least 5 years of experience in the international medical device industry, with demonstrated experience managing external manufacturing and supply relationships
• Experience in project management

Any other information

• Roles in Design Control
  • Design Lead mandatory
  • Development Lead / Change Lead / PM mandatory

• Demonstrate company values

Additional Responsibilities

• Roles in Design Control
  • Product Owner (in development projects)
  • Contract Manufacturing coordination for assigned assortment
  • Manufacturing Lead for contract manufactured products

ABOUT MOLNLYCKE

Mölnlycke is a world-leading medical solutions company. We design and supply solutions to enhance performance at every point of care – from the hospital to the home proven it every day.

We specialise in:

Wound management: including dressings with Safetac® such as Mepitel® and Mepilex®
Preventing pressure ulcers: with Mepilex® Border used prophylactically and devices to help turn and re-position patients.
Surgical solutions: including Mölnlycke trays, HiBi® antiseptics and Biogel® surgical gloves.
Mölnlycke was founded in 1849. Nowadays our solutions are available in around 100 countries; we’re the number one global provider of advanced wound care and single-use surgical products; and we’re Europe’s largest provider of customised trays. Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden and we have about 7,800 employees around the world.