Associate Project Manager

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.                

 

The Associate Project Manager will lead projects within the Peripheral Interventions (PI) Division, primarily supporting projects in the Vascular Franchise.  Works directly with supporting functions, across business units and manufacturing sites.  Project scope and size will vary from small to large and could include activities from all phases of the product life cycle.

 

Key Skills / Competencies

• Communication – Communicates effectively across project teams.  Listens actively and encourages the open exchange of ideas and opinions.
• Collaboration – Models and promotes collaboration.  Works effectively with others across the project team, organization, and stakeholders to achieve goals.
• Planning – Ability to create a project plan with prioritized initiatives that align with project goals.
• Execution – Drives results by acting with speed and agility, while integrating and aligning efforts across units and cross-functions, to meet project goals and objectives.

 

 Responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement overall project plan, including cost, schedule, risk, performance and monitor progress against business key objectives and goals.
• Manages cross-functional development teams; leads teams and helps diverse and dispersed project team members to execute towards overall project goal(s); provides input to functional managers on team and team member performance; develops and maintains strong relationships with functional leads.
• Manages the technical challenges of technology application and new product development; identifies, communicates, and manages moderate to high levels of technical risk.
• Manages planning and execution; develops and implements project plan; builds team ownership and commitment.
• Responsible for team and cross-functional communications; liaison between project team and leadership; responsible for key project communications.  Communicates and influences resolution of cross-functional issues.

 

What we’re looking for:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in STEM or Project Management
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
• Small and large cross-functional project team experience
• Strong communication, organization, and execution skills
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills; ability to build relationships within project teams.
• Problem-solving and action-oriented bias
• Must be willing and able to travel, sometimes internationally, ~10% of the time
• Works under direct and indirect supervision

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience communicating across all organizational levels
• Leads courageously by confronting problems directly; moves forward optimistically under conditions of uncertainty
• Manages the triple constraint; understands the significance, impact and aggressively manages project risks

 

 

Requisition ID: 574910

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

 

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

 

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the pat