Sustaining Program Manager R&D

JOB TITLE:

Sustaining Program Manager R&D

JOB SUMMARY

The Program Manager Sustaining leads the project and program management capability at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining activities across our advanced medical device portfolio. This role combines programmatic oversight of sustaining activities in Costa Rica with building an effective team of project management professionals. Reporting to the Head of R&D, Costa Rica, with a dotted line to the Director of Global R&D Execution Excellence, you'll establish project and program management as a key discipline in our newest R&D hub. Your experience will be valuable in building and strengthening team capabilities, delivering quality across sustaining programs, and identifying opportunities to improve our execution processes. We're seeking a leader ready to shape a department from scratch, make an impact on our global organization, and deliver results that improve patient care worldwide.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Locally manage execution of the technology and knowledge transfer process for transitioning product sustaining capabilities to the new R&D organization in Costa Rica.
• Coordinate strategies, practices, and execution with the product design and development team in Denver, Colorado to ensure consistency across sites.
• Liaison with global R&D and manufacturing site stakeholders as the Costa Rica interface to the global sustaining business process.
• Manage and drive execution of the local sustaining business process including project intake, prioritization, project execution monitoring, and issue escalation.
• Track site metrics on the state of project delivery and the value/ROI within individual projects as well as across the sustaining projects portfolio.
• Communicate important milestones, status updates, achievements and decisions as it relates to the sustaining program at the project and leadership level.
• Plan and manage high criticality sustaining initiatives as needed, ensuring performance to schedule, scope, and budget.
• Serve as the project management subject matter expert to support sustaining technical project owners and non-project management practitioners.
• Develop and deploy project management best practices aligned with the global execution excellence organization.
• Build a sustaining project management capability in Costa Rica by recruiting, managing, mentoring, and developing project coordinators and project managers commensurate with the growth of sustaining activities.
• Maintain strict adherence to medical device industry regulations and quality standards across all engineering activities.

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. MBA or graduate degree desirable.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a related technical field with a strong focus on medical device development
• Proven track record of successfully leading complex technical projects and/or programs.

Skills

• Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close on projects or programs.
• Demonstrates successful management of multiple work streams or projects of varying size or complexity simultaneously.
• Experience in defining objectives, budgets, business justifications, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.
• Experience managing complex electro-mechanical medical device equipment development projects including hardware, software and systems engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and manage project and program risks and opportunities.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, with the ability to teach and coach practitioners and non-practitioners alike
• Ability to proactively manage stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to manage conflicts; to read situations quickly; to lead by influence; to exploit opportunities; and to find common ground to get alignment.
• Ability to challenge project teams and leaders to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and honor commitments.
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal, presentation, and written) for articulating complex concepts to diverse audiences including senior management
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and scheduling tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)
• Thorough understanding of medical device industry regulations and standards including FDA design controls and ISO 13485

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

PMP, PgMP or equivalent certification preferred.
 

JOB TITLE:

Sustaining Program Manager R&D

JOB SUMMARY

The Program Manager Sustaining leads the project and program management capability at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining activities across our advanced medical device portfolio. This role combines programmatic oversight of sustaining activities in Costa Rica with building an effective team of project management professionals. Reporting to the Head of R&D, Costa Rica, with a dotted line to the Director of Global R&D Execution Excellence, you'll establish project and program management as a key discipline in our newest R&D hub. Your experience will be valuable in building and strengthening team capabilities, delivering quality across sustaining programs, and identifying opportunities to improve our execution processes. We're seeking a leader ready to shape a department from scratch, make an impact on our global organization, and deliver results that improve patient care worldwide.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Locally manage execution of the technology and knowledge transfer process for transitioning product sustaining capabilities to the new R&D organization in Costa Rica.
• Coordinate strategies, practices, and execution with the product design and development team in Denver, Colorado to ensure consistency across sites.
• Liaison with global R&D and manufacturing site stakeholders as the Costa Rica interface to the global sustaining business process.
• Manage and drive execution of the local sustaining business process including project intake, prioritization, project execution monitoring, and issue escalation.
• Track site metrics on the state of project delivery and the value/ROI within individual projects as well as across the sustaining projects portfolio.
• Communicate important milestones, status updates, achievements and decisions as it relates to the sustaining program at the project and leadership level.
• Plan and manage high criticality sustaining initiatives as needed, ensuring performance to schedule, scope, and budget.
• Serve as the project management subject matter expert to support sustaining technical project owners and non-project management practitioners.
• Develop and deploy project management best practices aligned with the global execution excellence organization.
• Build a sustaining project management capability in Costa Rica by recruiting, managing, mentoring, and developing project coordinators and project managers commensurate with the growth of sustaining activities.
• Maintain strict adherence to medical device industry regulations and quality standards across all engineering activities.

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. MBA or graduate degree desirable.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a related technical field with a strong focus on medical device development
• Proven track record of successfully leading complex technical projects and/or programs.

Skills

• Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close on projects or programs.
• Demonstrates successful management of multiple work streams or projects of varying size or complexity simultaneously.
• Experience in defining objectives, budgets, business justifications, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.
• Experience managing complex electro-mechanical medical device equipment development projects including hardware, software and systems engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and manage project and program risks and opportunities.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, with the ability to teach and coach practitioners and non-practitioners alike
• Ability to proactively manage stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to manage conflicts; to read situations quickly; to lead by influence; to exploit opportunities; and to find common ground to get alignment.
• Ability to challenge project teams and leaders to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and honor commitments.
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal, presentation, and written) for articulating complex concepts to diverse audiences including senior management
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and scheduling tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)
• Thorough understanding of medical device industry regulations and standards including FDA design controls and ISO 13485

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

PMP, PgMP or equivalent certification preferred.
 

JOB TITLE:

Sustaining Program Manager R&D

JOB SUMMARY

The Program Manager Sustaining leads the project and program management capability at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining activities across our advanced medical device portfolio. This role combines programmatic oversight of sustaining activities in Costa Rica with building an effective team of project management professionals. Reporting to the Head of R&D, Costa Rica, with a dotted line to the Director of Global R&D Execution Excellence, you'll establish project and program management as a key discipline in our newest R&D hub. Your experience will be valuable in building and strengthening team capabilities, delivering quality across sustaining programs, and identifying opportunities to improve our execution processes. We're seeking a leader ready to shape a department from scratch, make an impact on our global organization, and deliver results that improve patient care worldwide.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Locally manage execution of the technology and knowledge transfer process for transitioning product sustaining capabilities to the new R&D organization in Costa Rica.
• Coordinate strategies, practices, and execution with the product design and development team in Denver, Colorado to ensure consistency across sites.
• Liaison with global R&D and manufacturing site stakeholders as the Costa Rica interface to the global sustaining business process.
• Manage and drive execution of the local sustaining business process including project intake, prioritization, project execution monitoring, and issue escalation.
• Track site metrics on the state of project delivery and the value/ROI within individual projects as well as across the sustaining projects portfolio.
• Communicate important milestones, status updates, achievements and decisions as it relates to the sustaining program at the project and leadership level.
• Plan and manage high criticality sustaining initiatives as needed, ensuring performance to schedule, scope, and budget.
• Serve as the project management subject matter expert to support sustaining technical project owners and non-project management practitioners.
• Develop and deploy project management best practices aligned with the global execution excellence organization.
• Build a sustaining project management capability in Costa Rica by recruiting, managing, mentoring, and developing project coordinators and project managers commensurate with the growth of sustaining activities.
• Maintain strict adherence to medical device industry regulations and quality standards across all engineering activities.

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. MBA or graduate degree desirable.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a related technical field with a strong focus on medical device development
• Proven track record of successfully leading complex technical projects and/or programs.

Skills

• Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close on projects or programs.
• Demonstrates successful management of multiple work streams or projects of varying size or complexity simultaneously.
• Experience in defining objectives, budgets, business justifications, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.
• Experience managing complex electro-mechanical medical device equipment development projects including hardware, software and systems engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify and manage project and program risks and opportunities.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles, with the ability to teach and coach practitioners and non-practitioners alike
• Ability to proactively manage stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to manage conflicts; to read situations quickly; to lead by influence; to exploit opportunities; and to find common ground to get alignment.
• Ability to challenge project teams and leaders to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and honor commitments.
• Excellent English communication skills (verbal, presentation, and written) for articulating complex concepts to diverse audiences including senior management
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and scheduling tools (e.g. Microsoft Project)
• Thorough understanding of medical device industry regulations and standards including FDA design controls and ISO 13485

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

PMP, PgMP or equivalent certification preferred.