• Manage a cross-functional R&D and lifecycle management team. • Develop, implement and maintain R&D study plans, ensuring strategies align with corporate goals and that study results are on time and within budget. • Drive the creation and maintenance of a R&D dashboard, providing transparency to senior leadership on R&D progress. • Manage and maintain complete and high-quality core program information and documents such as minutes, agendas, action items, development plans, integrated timelines, assumptions, dashboards. • Proactively track and transparently report on program status against approved timeline, goals, and milestones. • Serve as a central source for cross functional program information across the company, including senior management. • Facilitate project governance, ensuring senior leadership has clear visibility into project milestones and risks. • Reviews R&D deliverables and ensures alignment across research, development and lifecycle management workstreams. • Act as a key liaison between the R&D team and executive leadership. • Collaborating with project and functional area leads, identify project risks, key interdependencies, and proactively develop and implement mitigation plans. • Implement project management best practices, tools, and templates to enhance team efficiency. • Provides coaching and development to team members on project management methodologies. • Measures team performance to achieve deliverables and provide feedback to functional management. • Utilize data from performance metrics and feedback to identify and develop solutions for the broader teams to gain long term efficiencies. • Other duties as assigned.