Sr. Project Manager, Global Regulatory Affairs

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

The Sr. Project Manager, Global RAQA will report to the Dir Regulatory Programs and Chief of Staff. This role involves the development, organization, communication, and coordination of strategic projects and operational initiatives within the Global Regulatory Affairs department. This role will be instrumental in executing areas of regulatory growth and business process improvement. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, operational expertise, and excellent social skills.

Essential Job Duties

• Effectively manage cross-functional teams across departments and ensure the teams deliver against their commitments on time, within scope, and on-budget

• Manage the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project goals. Escalate threats to project plan as required to functional management, senior leadership, and key global contributors

• Build ongoing partnership with the cross-functional teams to update weekly/monthly/quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are known, planned for, and crisply executed

• Provide regular updates on status, risks and mitigation plans to senior management as needed

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and synergies and improvement within the organization

• Develop KPIs and operational efficiency metrics, baselining activities and track the outcomes of these metrics or KPIs

• Assist in developing presentation narratives and drives/facilitates content creation for various forums, ensuring a robust communication cascade, cohesion of narrative and right sizing of the message to the audience (example: Reviews, quarterly updates, Town Hall, etc.)

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8 + years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 6 years with a masters degree in a strategic, operational, or leadership role.

• Experience in healthcare and technology industry

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; proficient knowledge of program/project management software (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, coordination tools) desired

• Exceptional project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills

• Skilled in all phases of the project lifecycle including idea generation, concept, design, and development

• Experience in studying tradeoffs between process design, customer needs/requirements and cost

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, set actionable goals and drive metrics and execution

• Experience with Business Process Management

• Experience with schedule, budget, cost and risk management tracking tools

• Regulatory and quality knowledge and experience

• Project management experience and cross functional expertise for partnership

Nice to have Skills:

• An MBA, project management certification (PMP, CSM), or other advanced degree is preferred.

• Nimble business mind, focused on developing clever solutions

• Proven project-reporting skills, with focus on interdepartmental communications

• International organization