Systems Program Manager - Endoluminal BU

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Effectively manage cross-functional development teams across the Business Unit and Shared Services, providing oversight on critical projects, and ensuring the teams deliver against their commitments within the project…
• Manages the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project objectives.Escalates threats to project plan as required to functional management and senior leadership
• Ongoing collaboration with cross-functional teams to update weekly/monthly/quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are understood, planned for, and crisply executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions
• Provides regular updates in form of status updates and stage gate review presentations with highlighting risks and mitigation plans to senior management
• Works across the organization and external suppliers to align functional support and input for the project
• Ensures Project management processes are followed per relevant procedures by functional team members.
• Contributes to Project management process optimization and strategies via lessons learned, resource leveling, process input and sharing and developing best practices

Job requirements

• Medical device or health care experience in regulated environment is required.
• Understanding of Design Controls under US and International Regulations
• Strong project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills
• Comfortable with all phases of the project and product lifecycle including idea generation, concept, design, development, V&V testing and manufacturing transfer
• Experience in analyzing tradeoffs between product features, customer needs/ requirements and cost
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, set actionable goals and drive metrics and execution
• Experience with supplier development and management of post design transfer supplier changes
• Experience with schedule, budget, cost and risk management tracking tools