Job Description

Primary Function of Position:

This role will be reporting to the Endoluminal PMO Manager, you will be accountable for the management of both New Product Development (NPD) and Sustaining projects for the Endoluminal Business Unit. You will be aligning engineering, clinical, and regulatory schedules, to ensuring that the right products are created and delivered at the time of market introduction to ensure the success of the platform. Your influence will be critical to ensure excellent cross-functional communication and coordination, and you will play a key role in the prioritization and development of new technologies for the platform.

The position requires experience in medical technology products and be able to combine that experience with a knowledge of bringing projects through a development cycle and delivering them on-time and on-budget. The role requires knowledge of product development and manufacturing, project management, and most importantly managing through influence.

Roles and 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 contract.
• Manage the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project goals. 
• Escalates threats to project plan as required to functional management and senior leadership
• Ongoing partnership with the cross-functional teams to update weekly / monthly / quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are implied, planned for, and executed
• Perform risk examination, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff outcomes
• 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 partners (as needed) to align functional help 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 developing best practices