The posting
Work Flexibility: Hybrid
As a Senior Project Manager, Continuous Enhancement (CE), you will lead cross-functional teams in the planning, coordinating, monitoring and execution of CE projects across the Acute Care portfolio (beds, stretchers, support surfaces and connected solutions). CE projects are engineering changes that deliver design-driven product improvements, including software and hardware feature additions and enhancements, quality improvements and market expansions. In your role, you will ensure CE projects are delivered on time, within scope and on budget, so that we protect existing revenue and keep the portfolio competitive and compliant.
What You Will Do:
Continuous Enhancement Sr. Project Manager responsibilities
- Own execution of a portfolio of concurrent CE projects, a project category within NPD, from activation through launch, leading R&D and the cross-functional resources assigned to each project.
- Partner with Marketing, R&D, Quality and Product Engineering to manage the CE backlog. Help route customer requests, field issues and sales requests to the right path (CE, Software Continuous Improvement or NPD) and support Marketing-led prioritization based on commercial impact (revenue protection, market impact, deal support).
- Prepare and present CE projects at governance forums, phase gate reviews and quarterly portfolio reviews. Confirm cross-functional capacity before activation.
- Translate research and scope into resource and schedule plans. Coordinate development phase and drive verification, validation and launch readiness.
- Lead quality-heavy project work within design controls, including design changes, risk management updates, and resolution of design-related NCs, CAPAs and customer quality issues, in close partnership with Advanced Quality and Regulatory Affairs.
- Manage scope change through clear change-control criteria. Protect NPD commitments, and escalate trade-offs between customer escalations and roadmap commitments transparently.
- Maintain accurate project data in Planview, including schedules, rolling 18-month resource demand projections, project status reports (PSRs) and financials. Partner with Finance and Marketing on BCFMs and budget tracking where required.
- Provide CE portfolio visibility (backlog status, capacity, health indicators and delivered value) to Acute Care leadership, and drive continuous improvement of CE intake and execution processes.
Core project management responsibilities
- Lead the team in the development of the project charter and management plan. Direct, manage, monitor, and control project. Evaluate tradeoffs within project.
- Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop, manage and own project scope.
- Develop and manage the detailed project Gantt chart and integrated schedules across multiple CE projects. Analyze critical path, major workstreams, and intersecting milestones, including dependencies on NPD programs and shared resources.
- Collaborate with cross-functional managers to define project budget. Monitor and maintain costs within budget.
- Partner with project team to create project Quality Plans using quality planning tools and techniques.
- Develop a risk management plan for the project. Identify, analyze, and understand project risks; develop and monitor a risk response plan.
- Develop a Procurement Management Plan and collaborate on the selection of procurement partners.
- Estimate, acquire and assign cross functional project resources. Define the role, responsibility, and deliverables for each team member. Provide direct feedback to functional manager on performance reviews.
- Develop a Stakeholder management plan for the project, based on the identification, analysis and understanding of Stakeholder expectations.
- Builds successful working relationships with internal and external personnel in various departments.
- High in emotional intelligence and stays calm under pressure. Adept in conflict resolution.
- Drives results in support of the business, even in the face of demanding timelines. Steps up to take on additional responsibility where appropriate.
- Adept at team management; identifies the right people to the right tasks all while maintaining team morale and recognizing contributions.
- Incorporates end-user feedback to refine scope through the project lifecycle and can communicate changes, updates, and decisions to key stakeholders.
- Can understand and communicate how goals fit into broader organizational goals and the Acute Care strategic plan, and prioritize tasks/schedule accordingly.
- Keeps the customer at the heart of what we do.
What you need
Required
- BA or BS (emphasis in engineering/project management or related discipline preferred) or equivalent.
- Minimum of 6 years demonstrated project management experience in at least one discipline (engineering, new product development, manufacturing etc.)
Preferred
- Master's Degree or equivalent
- PMP or PgMP or equivalent
- Experience of regulatory and quality considerations for product development, including ISO, FDA, and technical knowledge of medical device product lines.
- Experience managing both hardware/software product development and enhancements for capital medical equipment
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and a prioritized backlog with shared cross-functional resources
- Experience with portfolio and project management tools (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Planview etc.)
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
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Travel Percentage: 10%
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