Senior Program Manager-Patient Interface

Job Title

Senior Program Manager-Patient Interface

Job Description

Please note: Due to the consolidation of our sites, this role will start at the Bakery Square office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and will move to another site in the greater Pittsburgh area by the end of the year. This change will bring our teams in western Pennsylvania closer together to remain competitive and committed to our customers, clinicians, and patients and create value with sustainable impact.

The Sr. Program Manager-Patient Interface will play a critical role as a Program Champion, responsible for leading New Product Development, Research and feasibility activities for Patient Interface products in the Sleep & Respiratory Care market.

Your role:

• Develop, and assure compliance to, program/project goals, including project schedule milestones, product cost targets, and product quality and reliability measures.
• The candidate must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented, new product development environment.
• Coordinating and scheduling program/project activities using appropriate project management techniques, technical judgment and interpersonal skills.
• Actively lead and participate in periodic program/project meetings, design reviews, R&D reviews, manufacturing reviews, and preparing and communicating project overviews and status reports to executive management.
• Work with the Research Engineering Directors and Managers to ensure program/project objectives are appropriately defined.
• Lead the proactive identification and mitigation of project risks.
• Track all issues and action items to closure.
• Assure project teams follow Quality System and Business Management System processes.
• Effectively use Philips Respironics systems to achieve program/project deliverables relative to safety, effectiveness, usability, manufacturability, reliability, cost, quality, and time to market.
• This Hybrid based role may require travel up to 10%.
• Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Pittsburgh, PA, Murrysville, PA or New Kensington, PA.

You're the right fit if:

• You have a minimum of 7 years’ experience in Program/Project management within FDA regulated medical device product development/R&D environments, with the ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects.
• You have expertise in all aspects of program/project management, planning, and execution, demonstrating an outstanding record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology.
• You have proven experience utilizing Microsoft Project (Required) in developing schedules, assigning resources, tracking progress, managing budgets etc. 
• You’re able to communicate project status in a clear, concise manner, to business leadership regarding schedules, risks, budget and resources.
• You’re an interested and engaged contributor to the team's creative problem solving/technical challenges, with the ability to see the “big picture” of a project, while monitoring the effectiveness and contributions of the individual project functions.
• You’re able to facilitate the recognition of project risks, define corrective actions and track project to closure.
• You’re self-motivated, able to maintain composure, manage/mitigate conflicts and make timely decisions.
• You have extensive experience combating/mitigating project challenges, with the ability to develop, work with and communicate effectively with cross-functional, global project teams and the greater S&RC organization.
• You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (required), Master’s degree/MBA (preferred).
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. 

About Philips:

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