Junior Research Project Manager

Ikerian AG (formely RetinAI Medical) is a fast-growing medical device software company headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. Our mission is to enable the right decisions sooner in healthcare, through transformative AI & data management solutions for disease screening and monitoring. Join our diverse team of entrepreneurs, developers, researchers, and commercial experts who are collectively shaping the future of healthcare.

We're looking for a Junior Research Project Manager to join our team. If you're excited about shaping the future of health-tech and enjoy a hands-on approach to problem-solving, we're eager to speak to you!

The general Project Manager responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress.
• Lead project teams with multi-disciplinary internal resources and customers for the execution of customer projects according to the project plan.
• Support the definition of research questions and analysis plans
• Identify, analyse and mitigate project risks in a timely manner and escalate issues to line managers
• Ensure that the assigned projects are delivered according to customer satisfaction (on-time, within scope, budget and requirements).
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders to build mutually beneficial results.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation.
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
• Communicate and report project progress, major risks, issues and changes to plan; escalate to management as needed in a timely manner.
• Support regulatory documentation and quality reviews.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Natural Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
• Ability to lead smaller to medium teams including resources and time planning, progress tracking, status updates
• Knowledge in effort estimation and project planning for smaller to medium projects
• Strong sense of communication and being able to transfer information between technical and non-technical teams.
• Good knowledge of stakeholder management to ensure opinions are considered
• Able to lead by example
• Knowledge in conflict management, able to identify conflict situations and discuss solutions with senior members
• Knowledge in scope management, able to Identify change requests and scope creeps and escalates to senior members.
• Good knowledge of project risk management, able to identify common project risks and to mitigate or escalate them to senior members
• Understands project management processes
• Good understanding of cloud-based software and SaaS
• 1+ years of experience in managing research projects, including data acquisition, data clean up and data analysis
• Strong ability to work remotely and affinity to work with online tools
• Sound Background in regulatory compliance for medical devices (MDR / FDA) is a plus
• Background in data science or statistics is a plus
• Background knowledge in Ophthalmology is a plus

Benefits

• A chance to be part of an exceptional team driving innovation in healthcare.
• A competitive salary in a supportive work environment that fosters work-life balance.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development in an international setting.
• A culture of collaboration and inclusion, which is fundamental to our ethos.
• Remote work with annual in-person team gatherings.
• Hardware and software support for a seamless remote work experience.
• Participation in the company's Employee Stock Option Plan.

We invite qualified candidates eager to make a difference in healthcare technology to apply.