Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist

Principal Product Development Project Management Specialist

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years managing technical related projects OR an advanced degree and 5 years of experience managing technical related projects

Responsibilities

• Lead multifaceted cross-functional teams, encompassing Design, Development, Verification, Validation, Documentation. Guide them through the product development journey, ensuring project success and aligning with business objectives.
• Develop and uphold project plans, schedules, risk registers, budgets, and resource allocation for designated projects. Champion timely and effective communication, continuously updating stakeholders on the project’s advancement.
• Manage project meetings, meticulously document meeting minutes and pivotal decisions, and diligently track action items.
• Foster harmony between the project team, the business, and other stakeholders. Integrate input early in process development and quality planning.
• Establish robust channels for both formal and informal communication, relaying accurate and current information to all stakeholders.
• Organize and guide a diverse array of distributed, cross-functional resources toward triumphant outcomes.
• Serve as the primary liaison for prominent leaders and stakeholders spanning the organization.
• Engage stakeholders, ensuring their involvement in shaping end products and processes that effectively address business challenges.
• Contribute to project prioritization decisions by offering data-driven insights and analysis derived from ongoing and previous projects.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA
• PMP Certification or other PMI certification
• Experience with ProChain scheduling methodology
• Expert skills with managing project plan, scope, schedule, budget, and risk register
• Agile Software Development certification, including SAFe
• Lean/Six Sigma Certification
• Expert skills in JIRA, JAMA, Polarion, PowerBI tools
• Experience leading diverse and complex projects and programs and coordinating multiple teams to execute concurrent, interdependent projects.
• Knowledge of medical device R&D, product development, and clinical/regulatory procedures; including identifying use conditions, developing requirements, and implementing risk management activities like failure mode analysis
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and able to influence all customers (both internal and external) on issues that impact the business and its technical service and product strategies
• Expert active listening skills with a keen awareness for various messaging styles; and polished ability to tailor delivery to a broad range of audiences
• Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations; conflict resolution; resource constraint and problem solving.
• Experience participating in internal and external audits as a Subject Matter Expert
• Comprehensive knowledge of medical device standards and regulations (e.g., IEC 60601, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485)