# Research and Development Program Manager

Mission As a Program Manager, you will lead the Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) programs, reporting to the Head of Program Management in Proton Therapy R&D. The role is responsible for turning service and product improvement needs into a coherent portfolio of initiatives that maximizes customer value, operational performance, and business impact while ensuring alignment across Product Management, Service, Regulatory and R&D. The first program is a strategic program aiming at adapting the way our Proton Therapy centers operate and improve reliability and stability of our system. The program takes place in a context of large growth of the installed base ; has large strategic impact directly impacting IBA’s P&L ; is monitored at executive level ; and is already on-going with multiple product developments within R&D and non-product projects coordinated with Service. Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) is a new program responsible for capturing, evaluating and governing improvements to existing product on the installed base. The Program Manager will establish and operate the governance framework, perform value-based prioritization, ensure stakeholders alignment (service, product m

- **Id**: 4148693
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/iba-worldwide-research-and-development-program-manager>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- **Countries**: BE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-17T02:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:19:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 26
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6039
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1984116
- **Name**: Iba Worldwide
- **Domain**: iba-worldwide.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/iba-worldwide>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: yes
- **ISO 13485** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 26

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T08:19:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.799
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 26
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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