Program Manager – New Ventures Operations

Program Manager – New Ventures Operations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Sciences with 5+ years program management experience or a Master’s degree with 3+ years program management experience
• Strong program management skills
• Mastery and proficiency in product development and new product introduction, including clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of cross-functional project teams and functional management
• Knowledge of Program Phase-In and Phase-Out Planning
• Ability to manage suppliers for complex assemblies
• Conceptual understanding of manufacturing engineering and operations validation efforts to lead (IQ/OQ/PQ)
• Familiar with contract manufacturer management
• Influence management skills; experience working collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals
• Business acumen; ability to think and act from an overall ‘best for the business’ perspective
• Results oriented, self-starter with a strong initiative and sense of urgency
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness – ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management and employees.
• Effective decision-making skills – experience negotiating and balancing decisions and priorities across needs of several functional departments and willingness to make tough decisions. Makes timely decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.
• Strong analytical, planning, organization and time management skills to effectively develop and execute comprehensive programs and budgets.
• Experience with MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, VISIO, Outlook, SharePoint, Jira, OneNote and other collaboration and workflow management tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead New Product Introduction and Sustaining programs from conception through commercialization
• Program Planning: Program charters, program plans, Resource (expense and FTE), key risks and mitigation strategy, program schedule, interdependencies, build planning based on product demand/supply chain logistics
• Leading the program team against plan
• Coaching and mentoring team members
• Effective risk management
• Tracking program schedule
• Creation, reconciliation and tracking of program budget
• Effective conflict resolution
• Communication with leaderships, management and team members including appropriate risk and escalation management
• Build a solid and high performing team with clear communication to leadership, extended team members, and enabling functions
• Engages team members to ensure effective team dynamics and mutual accountability
• Bring and implement program management best practices within team. Influence positive change outside of Program Management team
• Provides regular updates and strategies for executive management review and decision making around program priorities, budget, timing, resources and assumptions, including impact on the customer, enterprise-wide resources, and revenues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Program management experience in the medical device domain
• Project Management Certification, such as PMP
• MBA or Masters in Product Development/Innovation field
• Experience and demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong team leadership and influencing skills