Senior Project (Design) Mgr

Job Description

Primary Function of Position
The Senior Project Manager, PMO organizes a diverse set of activities of the Program Management Office (PMO) group within the New Product Development organization. The PMO group is responsible for leading cross functional teams in new product development and continuation engineering initiatives, and consists of project managers, program managers and project coordinators.

The Senior Project Manager, PMO orchestrates the activities of their project teams to deliver compelling final product designs within demanding product release schedules. This role will support vision and intelligence products including endoscopes, light sources, and hardware and software enabled imaging modalities. This role will have heavier emphasis on software-based projects as well as hardware projects. The Senior Project Manager, PMO must be highly organized and detail-oriented, and interact fluidly and effectively with numerous individuals and departments. The Senior Project Manager, PMO will have a close working relationship with the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Human Factors, Technical Publications, Training, Service, Finance, and Marketing departments, as well as other program and project managers.

Essential Job Duties

• Lead cross-functional project teams for product development and product improvements
• Ensure Design Control processes are followed per relevant procedures
• Facilitate and ensure that complex, high-value Business Unit projects are properly scoped, resourced, and communicated to minimize risk, deliver on-time and on-budget
• Organize and manage team meetings, design review meetings, phase gate review meetings
• Create and maintain project schedules
• Develop and monitor project budgets
• Provide clear communication to the organization on project status, critical path, as well as potential areas of risk
• Plan and track the creation of the design history documents for projects by the project teams.
• Work with Operations and Manufacturing management to determine strategies for product cut-ins and roll-ins
• Support in defining and aligning project goals with business unit and corporate objectives. Organize and prioritize the work of the teams to accomplish the objectives.
• Support team members including functional managers across the business to plan and execute the activities required to achieve project goals.
• Support resource demand planning for project teams including estimating project work efforts, needs, roles and responsibilities.
• Communicate project priorities and key project deliverables and milestones broadly including within the PMO team, to all cross-functional team members, to business unit management, and to shared services management.
• Coordinate effectively with other project managers who are driving overall product development programs, to understand project goals, scope, and timelines, and help functional managers negotiate resources and schedules.
• Facilitate best practices sharing and feedback to PMO organization and seek areas of process improvements

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• A highly passionate individual who cares deeply about delivering improved surgical solutions to patients and has a proven ability to coordinate the efforts of talented people
• Strong project/program management, planning, decision making, negotiating, communication, and change management skills
• Experience and skills developing medical device products through Design Controls with a very high level of complexity including capital equipment and consumables with demonstrated success at product launches as a result of completing product development cycles
• Proven ability to lead, influence and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment
• Experience with leading people within a project team that includes many engineering disciplines, including clinical, mechanical, electrical, and software
• Exceptional aptitude for cultivating collaboration across department boundaries and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority to ensure project success
• Proven success recognizing critical issues with the ability to react quickly under pressure, and drive issues to closure by providing coordinated direction
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously; must work well under pressure, be flexible, and meet deadlines
• Excellent communication (written, verbal), presentation and documentation skills and high emotional intelligence
• Energetic and balanced person with a drive for results, who feels accountable, has a great attitude, and is a team-player; self-starter with high degree of initiative, urgency, and follow through
• Willing to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful with the ability to deal with conflict and drive to solution
• Ability to handle ambiguity effectively and oversee multiple projects at once

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