The position of Senior Project Manager with our Infectious Disease – Lateral Flow business. This role will perform basic project planning, execute plan, work through metrics, track and communicate project status through the entire project cycle.
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple new product development and product support projects
- Lead development and execution of project plans integrating cross-functional deliverables
- Establish project metrics (scope, schedule, quality) to manage and continuously improve project performance
- Collaborate with functional managers to assign appropriate skillset to projects and monitors performance
- Establish project budget and actively manage project budget performance
- Actively manage project risk activities
- Manage and coordinate project activities to deliver projects from concept to commercialization
- Responsible for conducting design reviews and ensuring proper completion of project deliverables
- Drives resolution of team project issues, risks, and/or conflicts
- Provide timely and effective project communications to key stakeholders
- Lead and/or support business process improvement activities to continuously improve project deliverables
- Manages change requests, identify and document all schedule impacts, and communicate approved changes to all team members
- Follows best practices, processes, and standard methods for project planning
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in science or engineering plus on the job experience in project management or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in medical devices/medical diagnostics industry
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project or program management role
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Science, Engineering or other technical field.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a Research & Development role.
- Project Management Certification (PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master
Competencies:
- Strong knowledge of product life-cycle management and process development
- Ability to demonstrate strong leadership, influencing and collaboration skills
- Ability to clearly communicate plan, status, risk, issue, schedule, and impact to project teams and functional managers.
- Ability to follow project management philosophy, think logically across the project level
- Ability to manage project scope, schedule, and hold team accountable for results
- Strong self-motivation and ability to self-start
- Ability to work and build relationships cross functionally
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast paced environment
- Strong knowledge in project management best practices including Scrum methodology
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