Senior Project Manager, PMO New Product Development

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.
As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.
Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.
Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.
Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Senior Project Manager, PMO organizes has a diverse set of activities of the Program Management Office (PMO) group within the New Product Development organization. The PMO group is accountable for leading cross functional teams in new product development and continuation engineering initiatives, and consists of project managers, program managers and project coordinators.

The Senior Project Manager, PMO orchestrates the activities of their project teams to deliver compelling final product designs within challenging product release schedules.  This role will also have a focus on design improvements post-launch, product line extensions, and cost reductions. The Senior Project Manager, PMO must be highly organized and detail-oriented, and interact fluidly and effectively with numerous individuals and departments. The Senior Project Manager, PMO will have a close working relationship with the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Human Factors, Technical Publications, Training, Service, Finance, and Marketing departments, as well as other program and project managers.

Essential Job Duties

• Head cross-functional project teams for product development and product improvements
• Ensure Design Control processes are followed per relevant procedures
• Facilitate and ensure that complex, high-value Business Unit projects are properly scoped, resourced, and communicated to minimize risk, deliver on-time and on-budget
• Organize and manage team meetings, design review meetings, phase gate review meetings
• Create and maintain project schedules
• Develop and monitor project budgets
• Provide clear communication to the organization on project status, critical path, as well as potential areas of risk
• Plan and track the creation of the design history documents for projects by the project teams.
• Work with Operations and Manufacturing management to create strategies for product cut-ins and roll-ins
• Help in defining and aligning project goals with business unit and corporate goals.
• Organize and prioritize the work of the teams to accomplish the priorities.
• Help team members including functional managers across the business to plan and execute the activities required to achieve project goals.
• Help resource demand planning for project teams including estimating project work efforts, needs, roles and responsibilities.
• Communicate project priorities and key project deliverables and milestones broadly including within the PMO team, to all cross-functional team members, to business unit management, and to shared services management.
• Coordinate effectively with other project managers who are driving overall product development programs, to follow project goals, scope, and timelines, and help functional managers negotiate resources and schedules.
• Facilitate best practices and giving feedback to PMO organization and seek areas of process improvements

Ideal Candidate Traits 

• A highly passionate person who cares deeply about delivering improved surgical solutions to patients and has a proven ability to coordinate the efforts of talented people
• Excellent project/program management, planning, decision making, negotiating, communication, and change management