Project Manager R&D

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Date: May 21, 2025

Location: Cartago, CR

Company: Terumo BCT, Inc.

JOB TITLE:  Project Manager

 

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Manager is responsible for driving successful project delivery at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining and product development activities across our advanced medical device portfolio.  Working closely with a cross-functional core team, this position exercises technical project management skills to deliver high-quality product sustainment and development efforts on schedule, on budget, and within scope. 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

·       Create and execute project plans and revises as appropriate for project needs and status.

·       Define and manage sustaining and iterative development projects of small to moderate scope.

·       Facilitate and coordinate activities and tasks involving project scope, schedule and budget.

·       Facilitate the definition of quality and risk and manages the project accordingly.

·       Track status and metrics on the project delivery involving scope, schedule and budget.

·       Resolve and/or escalate project-related issues in a timely fashion.

·       Manage communications, expectations, and interactions with all departments and internal stakeholders.

·       Deliver informative, well-organized presentations on project status and selected project topics.

·       Track lessons learned and shares with team members

·       Drive risk mitigation strategies to ensure delivery of project commitments

·       Manage development teams across onshore and offshore locations

·       Continuously improve effectiveness and efficiencies of a team’s performance and productivity

·       Support teams and projects in the completion of Design Control artifacts and deliverables

 

 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

 Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline required or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered 

Experience

·       3+ years of project management experience

·       Track record of successful project delivery

·       Experience managing multiple concurrent development projects

·       Experience working with distributed/offshore teams and stakeholders

·       Experience with project management tools and tracking systems.

 Skills

·       Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close.

·       Experience in defining objectives, budgets, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.

·       Demonstrated project planning, estimation, and resource management capabilities

·       Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate cross-functional teams

·       Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills

·       Experience facilitating team meetings

·       Excellent verbal and written English communication abilities

·       Strong interpersonal and team-building capabilities

·       Demonstrated leadership and conflict resolution skills

·       Ability to influence without direct authority

·       Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

·       Decision-making skills under pressure

·       Ability to understand and communicate technical system features, functionality and dependencies

·       Shown ability to effectively collaborate with third party vendors, technical resources and stakeholders.

·       Familiarity with FDA Design Controls and QMS processes desired

 

 Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

·       Project management professional (PMP) certification desired

JOB TITLE:  Project Manager

 

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Manager is responsible for driving successful project delivery at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining and product development activities across our advanced medical device portfolio.  Working closely with a cross-functional core team, this position exercises technical project management skills to deliver high-quality product sustainment and development efforts on schedule, on budget, and within scope. 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

·       Create and execute project plans and revises as appropriate for project needs and status.

·       Define and manage sustaining and iterative development projects of small to moderate scope.

·       Facilitate and coordinate activities and tasks involving project scope, schedule and budget.

·       Facilitate the definition of quality and risk and manages the project accordingly.

·       Track status and metrics on the project delivery involving scope, schedule and budget.

·       Resolve and/or escalate project-related issues in a timely fashion.

·       Manage communications, expectations, and interactions with all departments and internal stakeholders.

·       Deliver informative, well-organized presentations on project status and selected project topics.

·       Track lessons learned and shares with team members

·       Drive risk mitigation strategies to ensure delivery of project commitments

·       Manage development teams across onshore and offshore locations

·       Continuously improve effectiveness and efficiencies of a team’s performance and productivity

·       Support teams and projects in the completion of Design Control artifacts and deliverables

 

 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

 Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline required or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered 

Experience

·       3+ years of project management experience

·       Track record of successful project delivery

·       Experience managing multiple concurrent development projects

·       Experience working with distributed/offshore teams and stakeholders

·       Experience with project management tools and tracking systems.

 Skills

·       Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close.

·       Experience in defining objectives, budgets, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.

·       Demonstrated project planning, estimation, and resource management capabilities

·       Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate cross-functional teams

·       Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills

·       Experience facilitating team meetings

·       Excellent verbal and written English communication abilities

·       Strong interpersonal and team-building capabilities

·       Demonstrated leadership and conflict resolution skills

·       Ability to influence without direct authority

·       Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

·       Decision-making skills under pressure

·       Ability to understand and communicate technical system features, functionality and dependencies

·       Shown ability to effectively collaborate with third party vendors, technical resources and stakeholders.

·       Familiarity with FDA Design Controls and QMS processes desired

 

 Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

·       Project management professional (PMP) certification desired

JOB TITLE:  Project Manager

 

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Manager is responsible for driving successful project delivery at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining and product development activities across our advanced medical device portfolio.  Working closely with a cross-functional core team, this position exercises technical project management skills to deliver high-quality product sustainment and development efforts on schedule, on budget, and within scope. 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

·       Create and execute project plans and revises as appropriate for project needs and status.

·       Define and manage sustaining and iterative development projects of small to moderate scope.

·       Facilitate and coordinate activities and tasks involving project scope, schedule and budget.

·       Facilitate the definition of quality and risk and manages the project accordingly.

·       Track status and metrics on the project delivery involving scope, schedule and budget.

·       Resolve and/or escalate project-related issues in a timely fashion.

·       Manage communications, expectations, and interactions with all departments and internal stakeholders.

·       Deliver informative, well-organized presentations on project status and selected project topics.

·       Track lessons learned and shares with team members

·       Drive risk mitigation strategies to ensure delivery of project commitments

·       Manage development teams across onshore and offshore locations

·       Continuously improve effectiveness and efficiencies of a team’s performance and productivity

·       Support teams and projects in the completion of Design Control artifacts and deliverables

 

 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

 Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline required or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered 

Experience

·       3+ years of project management experience

·       Track record of successful project delivery

·       Experience managing multiple concurrent development projects

·       Experience working with distributed/offshore teams and stakeholders

·       Experience with project management tools and tracking systems.

 Skills

·       Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close.

·       Experience in defining objectives, budgets, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.

·       Demonstrated project planning, estimation, and resource management capabilities

·       Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate cross-functional teams

·       Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills

·       Experience facilitating team meetings

·       Excellent verbal and written English communication abilities

·       Strong interpersonal and team-building capabilities

·       Demonstrated leadership and conflict resolution skills

·       Ability to influence without direct authority

·       Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

·       Decision-making skills under pressure

·       Ability to understand and communicate technical system features, functionality and dependencies

·       Shown ability to effectively collaborate with third party vendors, technical resources and stakeholders.

·       Familiarity with FDA Design Controls and QMS processes desired

 

 Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

·       Project management professional (PMP) certification desired


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