Principal Project Manager - New Product Development

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**Careers that Change Lives**
Position Description:
The **Principal Project Manager - New Product Development** will join the Project Management Office (PMO) to implement, maintain, and improve a consistent Project Management framework in partnership with the Product Development core teams (R&D). This team member provides the critical Project Management expertise to enable crisp execution in a cross-functional core team by partnering with the team leader and team members in project planning, execution, and monitoring, as well as other aspects of project management.
Position Responsibilities:
Facilitate development and maintenance of the integrated, detailed schedule in MS Project. Partner with team to execute and monitor the project, abiding by the project management framework and using project management software tools.
Identify and monitor project team performance metrics. Analyze and present trends and recommendations to peers, core team and senior management. Contribute to or lead teams through project risk analysis, schedule recovery, etc.
Maintain and continuously improve the project management processes, guidelines, tools / templates, best practices, and overall implementation. Train teams on adopted project management methodologies.
Seek out and engage regularly with peers, creating an environment of exchange and learning. Openly share successes, challenges, and failures to promote the teams collective learning and overall improvement. Participate in and drive adoptions of lessons learned and best practices.
Facilitate solutions to complex problems with team, which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation. Drive change within the NPD team and share those learning across other teams (and functions).
Ensure understanding of all quality policy / system items that are personally applicable. Follow all work / quality procedures to ensure quality system compliance and high quality work.
**A Day in the Life**
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.
Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
Manages the development and implementation process of a companys products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
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.
Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of projects key stakeholders.
Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.
**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
Bachelors degree required
Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience
**Nice to Have**
Project leadership experience in a stage-gate design control system
MS Project, MS Office and Excel skills.
Experience in a regulated industry, such as Medical, Pharmaceutical, Defense or Aerospace.
Must possess managerial courage; must be confident managing risks and making difficult decisions that drive strategic organizational objectives. Works independently; comfortable with high levels of ambiguity; self-directed; and highly self-aware.
Able to establish trust and credibility throughout teams and leadership; demonstrates unwavering integrity and fierce accountability.
Effectively lead teams comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds; including but not limited to instrument and disposable R&D, Software, Hardware, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, Clinical and Marketing. Project management experience with international teams and engineering service providers.
Excellent communication skills, verbal, written and non-verbal; 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.
Expert-level skills using the tools and techniques of Project Management. Successfully managed multiple projects from conception through commercialization, most desirably in the medical device industry. Ability to interact effectively with customers and Marketing to ensure that project scope and requirements are clearly defined and executable.
Experience managing complex medical technology development programs. Exposure to systems engineering, concept engineering, hardware and software development, validation and systems integration.
Masters degree in Engineering and/or scientific discipline, or MBA
PMP Certification, Lean Leader/Six Sigma Certification
**About Medtronic**
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Lets work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients lives. Help us shape the future.
Physical Job Requirements
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Categories
Healthcare
Management
Engineering
Business
Marketing
Manufacturing / Production
Posted:
2022-03-01
Expires:
2022-03-31
Medtronic

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