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We build hope for everyone dealing with Cancer.\nElekta is shaping the standard of care, together with healthcare providers, by developing precision radiation medicine that brings advanced radiotherapy into routine clinical practice. Our solutions support consistent, efficient and personalized care, addressing evolving patient needs. Through adaptive radiotherapy, precision treatment delivery and integrated workflows, Elekta supports care teams across a range of clinical settings. Each year more than 2 million patients are treated using Elekta solutions across over 130 countries. Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with over 4,000 employees and offices in more than 40 countries. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information, visit elekta.com.\nWhat You’ll Do At Elekta\nLead complex product-development projects that matter. As Senior Project Manager R&D, you will lead multiple complex product-development and product-lifecycle projects within Elekta’s Brachytherapy organization.\nYou will bring structure, pace and transparency to projects involving hardware, software, systems engineering, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Supply Chain and commercial stakeholders. Your focus will be on building realistic plans, addressing risks early and ensuring that teams follow through on their commitments.\nThe role combines hands-on project leadership with portfolio-level coordination. You will work in a regulated environment where delivery, quality and compliance are equally important.\nResponsibilities\nLead projects from initiation through delivery while managing several projects or workstreams at the same time.\nEstablish integrated project plans, milestones, budgets, resource assumptions and delivery baselines.\nManage scope, risks, issues, dependencies, changes and delivery commitments.\nCreate a clear execution rhythm and ensure that decisions and actions are followed through.\nSelect the delivery approach that best fits each project, whether SAFe/Agile, hybrid or traditional stage-gate.\nCoordinate across teams and remove cross-functional delivery barriers.\nLead project reviews, gate reviews, planning sessions and steering forums.\nDevelop credible forecasts, capacity plans and recovery scenarios.\nProvide clear and timely reporting to management and project governance bodies.\nIntegrate Design Controls, Risk Management and regulated documentation into project plans.\nWork with Regulatory Affairs on regulatory strategies and submissions.\nSupport audit, design-review and regulatory readiness.\nUse delivery data, lessons learned and root-cause analysis to improve project execution.\nProvide program-level coordination or perform Release Train Engineer responsibilities in a SAFe environment, depending on the project.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nYou have significant experience in project or program management within complex product development.\nA track record of delivering multiple cross-functional projects involving combinations of hardware, software, systems, operations or external partners.\nExperience working with SAFe/Agile, hybrid and traditional delivery approaches.\nStrong planning, forecasting, risk-management and financial-control skills.\nAbility to communicate clearly with technical teams, functional leaders and senior management.\nExperience with Microsoft Project, Jira, BigPicture, Planview or similar platforms.\nA bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences or a related field.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Dutch is an advantage.\nExperience in medical devices is welcome but not essential. Relevant experience may also come from automotive, industrial technology, consumer electronics, aerospace or another regulated or high-reliability product-development environment.\nPMP, PRINCE2 or SAFe certification is an advantage.\nAbility to take ownership, bring different disciplines together, challenge unrealistic assumptions and maintain momentum when projects encounter obstacles.\nWhat Makes This Role Different\nYou will work on products and technologies that contribute directly to cancer care. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to improve how complex R&D projects are planned and delivered.\nThis role offers variety across new product development, lifecycle projects and different delivery methods. It is particularly suitable for someone who enjoys creating structure, solving delivery problems and bringing teams together around clear and achievable commitments.\nWhat You’ll Get\nIn this role, you will work for a higher purpose: hope for everyone dealing with cancer, and access to the best cancer care for everyone, regardless of where they are in the world. You will be part of our international, innovative team and have opportunities to learn and develop.\nAn overview of some of our benefits for Veenendaal is provided below.\n27 paid vacation days per year, plus 13 ATV days.\nGlobal bonus plan or profit-sharing scheme.\nTravel allowance.\nMetalektro pension fund, with contributions shared 50/50.\nInsurance discounts.\nActive staff association.\nTax benefits for fitness-centre memberships and bicycle purchases.\nHybrid working, with at least four days per week on location\nApplication process\nWe look forward to receiving your application. 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