PLM Technical Workstream Lead

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Country/Region: Denmark

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Department: Corporate IT Applications

Employment Type: Full-time

Req ID: 10368

PLM Technical Workstream Lead

Ambu is transforming our core enterprise platforms (e.g., ERP, QMS, PLM), and each workstream needs a dedicated technical leader to ensure high-quality, compliant delivery that enables standardized, high-performing global processes. This job ad regards the PLM Workstream Lead Position

The role

You are the end-to-end technical owner of the PLM workstream. You co-lead the workstream together with the Business Workstream Lead/GPO, ensuring process-system alignment, decision-ready design, disciplined delivery, and operational readiness for your scope.

PLM technical workstream lead

Experience in implementing PLM systems

Good understanding of workflows normally used within R&D within product development projects and maintaining product data across the value chain

Good understanding of the system landscape needed to support R&D from CAD via PLM to manufacturing.

Good understanding of the complex data and data structures used in product development

Key responsibilities

Technical governance within your workstream

Run technical governance for the workstream. Prepare decision-ready design packs and status for the Design Authority

Own the workstream technical RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies). Assess run-time/architecture risks, define mitigations, and escalate with clear options

Safeguard solution integrity against enterprise standards and non-functional requirements

Design, build, environments, and release engineering

Lead technical design for your workstream: integrations, extensions, data model, security roles, automation

Define and manage environments for the workstream: branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality gates

Manage technical debt, versioning, and change control with impact analysis across upstream/downstream systems

Data migration and cutover

Plan, prepare and execute migration tooling, trial loads, reconciliations/ validation, and cutover steps for your workstream objects

Security, privacy, and compliance

Ensure cybersecurity, privacy, Segregation of Duties (SoD), and validation/CSV compliance in collaboration with QA/Validation Lead

Delivery orchestration and hypercare

Coordinate internal platform teams and external vendors for your scope

Lead hypercare triage and stabilization for the workstream. Complete documentation and knowledge transfer to run

Program collaboration

Partner daily with the GPO, GPLs, and Business Workstream Lead; align on scope, decisions, and adoption

Work with PMO on stage gates, quality reviews, plans, and dependencies to other workstreams

Your profile

8+ years delivering technical workstreams on enterprise platforms (ERP, QMS, PLM or similar) in global settings

Proven leadership of architecture, integrations (API/iPaaS), data migration, and release management within a defined scope

Strong command of non-functionals: performance, reliability, security, privacy, SoD, and validation/CSV

Hands-on experience with CI/CD, environment strategy, branching, automation testing, and code quality

Adept at partnering with GPOs/GPLs to translate future-state processes into scalable solution designs

Skilled in vendor management and cross-team coordination. Clear, concise communicator in English

Willingness to travel across Ambu’s footprint and collaborate across time zones

Nice to have

MedTech/life sciences background (GxP, ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 11, CSV)

Exposure to PLM, QMS, Infor M3 or equivalent ERP, plus iPaaS/data platforms, and modern security frameworks

Experience with Agile-at-scale combined with stage-gate governance

Key stakeholders for your workstream

Global Process Owner and Global Process Leads

QA/Validation Lead

PMO

External implementation partners and software vendors

Key responsibilities following the transformation

Participate in approved global projects

Provide advice for standard system and best practices pf PLM and related systems

Act as Service Delivery Manager and Subject Matter Expert in PLM in the IT Application Team

Configure and maintain Ambu's PLM system, ensuring alignment with business requirements and best practices.

Handle system configuration, unit testing, training, and documentation in accordance with standards in close cooperation with external partners.

Manage Life Cycle Management & release management

Coach and review work performed by peer professionals

Work across functions and cultures to deliver high-quality global solutions

Work independently to solve complex problems

Train Business Process Owners and other key users

Follow regulatory compliance

Ambu – where your technical leadership matters

Join a fast-growing, international company where your workstream leadership directly enables how we operate globally. We offer strong professional development and a competitive package of professional, social, and financial benefits.

How to apply

Send your CV and a short note describing a program where you led the technical workstream for a specific domain from design through hypercare, including how you de-risked integrations, data migration, and non-functionals.

About Ambu

Ambu has been bringing the solutions of the future to life since 1937. Today, millions of patients and healthcare professionals worldwide depend on the efficiency, safety and performance of our single-use endoscopy, anaesthesia, and patient monitoring solutions. We continuously look to the future with a commitment to deliver innovative quality products that have a positive impact on patient care and the work of healthcare professionals. Headquartered near Copenhagen in Denmark, Ambu employs approximately 4,500 people in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.

For more information, please visit ambu.com or follow us on LinkedIn.