Senior Project Manager, PMO (New Product Development)

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 also have a focus on vision and imaging products including endoscopes light sources and hardware and software enabled imaging modalities. 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

• BS degree (or equivalent experience) in a scientific / engineering field
• 8 years experience leading teams in the development and commercialization of medical device products. Or similarly MS degree plus 6 years experience. Advanced degree is a plus.
• 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
• Experience with leading people within a project team that includes many engineering disciplines including clinical mechanical electrical and software

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• 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 
• Ability to lead a large number of people on a variety of programs 
• Ability and commitment to constantly develop new and better processes for product development including program management
• 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
• Proven ability to lead influence and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment
• Work with all phases of the product development lifecycle including idea generation concept development and testing design implementation validation and transfer
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing is highly desired as well as knowledge of automated production lines injection molding
• Working knowledge of manufacturing engineering product strategy and business management
• Experience in studying tradeoffs between product desirability feasibility and viability
• Demonstrates ability to synthesize data set actionable goals and drive metrics and execution
• Certification in project management (PMP)

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

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We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time