Job Title:  Project Manager

Position Summary

As Project Manager you will lead and drive New Product Development projects from cross-functional team inception to Full Market Release as well as manufacturing-related projects focused on continuous improvement and general sustaining activities. The programs and projects managed by the Project Manager represent critical strategic imperatives and are global in both scale and scope and have direct visibility to Senior Management. This position is expected to be strategic and forward thinking, expected to learn and implement new processes and ideas, and consistently find ways to better our processes, improve timeline opportunities, and not be satisfied with the status quo. The recommendations from the Project Manager and cross-functional teams have impact on the division affecting the financial, employee and customer view of the company.  
 

Duties

• Direct all phases of medical/dental device program and project development from cross-functional team inception, completion of a commercialized product, launch, post-market surveillance and change control.
• Organize and leads cross-functional teams on multiple medical/dental device new product development and change control projects that may include, at varying complexity, the following:  major new products; major and small line extensions; major redesigns; sourcing projects; inter-divisional projects; manufacturing projects; continuous improvement projects; and value improvement and business continuity projects.
• Serve as a proactive interface between Engineering, Marketing, Clinical, Manufacturing, Regulatory and Quality to ensure effective progression and delivery of projects.
• Develop and drive the cross-functional plan/strategy as well as execution of new products and change control projects directed by the Value Stream.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and technical expertise to ensure high quality products for the marketplace are delivered right the first time.
• Have a ‘can-do’ attitude and strong customer service approach to internal customers in order to bring team together and get work completed.
• Ensure the New Product Development and Change Control Project process is followed.
• Own the overall program and project management of the product development to ensure targets are met for performance, features, quality, costs, reliability, manufacturability, etc.
• Create, monitor and update project plans.
• Defend due dates when obstacles arise by helping the team come up with alternative solutions and plans to achieve the end goal.
• Act as the primary leader for assigned program and project activities, leading review sessions to discuss project status, critical paths, risks, and milestones. Has core knowledge of other job functions to help complete critical path items. 
• Enable team to create a basic timeline together and establishes milestones and monitors adherence to master plans and schedules.  
• Identify program or project problems and obtains solutions such as allocation of resources or changing specifications.
• Facilitate and follow-up with the assigned cross–functional team members involved in product definition, design, development, production, regulatory, quality, marketing, and clinical applications

Duties - cont'd

• Facilitate communication and interaction among functional business heads to ensure transparency of critical deliverables and milestones in the New Product Development and Change Control Project process.
• Deliver critical, timely communications to the Senior Leadership Group on product development and delivery.
• Ensure a smooth transition across the organization for initial concept through product development, manufacturing, design limited market release, product launch and change control.
• Use Visual Management, meeting agendas, meeting minutes and other tools to communicate progress and roadblocks to all levels of the organization.
• Identify critical dependences, risks, and contingency plans.  
• Proactively monitor progress, anticipate the effect of dependencies on schedule, cost, etc.
• Participate in identifying and implementing improvements and updates to the New Product Development Project and Change Control Project process, including adding deliverables, tools and/or processes to address functional and product requirements.
• Provide performance feedback regarding cross-functional team members to appropriate Functional Managers.
• Lead Voice of Customer initiatives and work closely with Product Management to define customer/market requirements for new products development.
• Identify problems and be responsible for determining solution to changes in program or project requirements, resource allocation issues, changes in project scope, etc. while fully understanding the trade-offs being made that impact the overall New Product Development and Change Control Project process and financials for the business.
• Be part of decisions that may have potential impact in all internal functions involved in producing a commercialized product.
• Be responsible for the outcomes of the cross-functional team and its impact to the overall product development.  Must create the vision and set direction for the core team, keep all members engaged through the process, recognize and reward team members as appropriate and provide coaching and performance feedback for each member.
   

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, Technical degree in the sciences or engineering fields highly beneficial; Master’s degree is a plus
• Minimum 5 years’ experience; minimum 3 years in program, project or portfolio management associated with product development and change control in a medical/dental device or a regulated industry
• Experience in more than one of the following disciplines a plus:  Design and/or Development Engineering, Product Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Quality
• Strong project management skills required; PMP certification a plus
   

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