Associate Project Manager

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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.                

 

Associate Project Manager

 

Site Location: Marlborough, MA

Work Mode: Hybrid, 3 days onsite

 

About the role:

 

The Endoscopy PMO is seeking a passionate, dynamic, and strategic Project Management professional to lead New Product Development projects to deliver best in class devices to patients and clinicians in support of BSC’s mission. 

 

In this Associate Project Manager role, you will lead small to medium cross-functional and cross-site teams to develop and launch new products that align with the respective Franchise Strategy within the Endoscopy Division. You will develop strong working relationships with the project team as well as key stakeholders (Franchise Leadership Team, Cross-functional Management, Project Investment Board (PIB), etc.) to drive progress, ensure alignment, mitigate risks/issues, and evolve project strategy as needed to manage the triple constraint and meet business objectives.

 

Your Responsibilities will include:

 

• Effectively leads small to medium cross-functional development teams; provides input to functional managers on team and team member performance.
• Manages key initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing processes; builds team ownership and commitment to project plan; identify, manage, and communicate moderate levels of technical and business risk.
• Identifies resources required for project activities, develops and manages project budgets, resource allocations and timelines. Leads development and management of the project Financial Model.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and manages tasks among team members as appropriate to drive timely execution of project deliverables; identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path while ensuring project quality.
• Manages individual project challenges and drives resolution to project issues by collaborating with team members, project customers, and others as appropriate.
• Responsible for clear and timely team and cross-functional communication; liaison between the team and leadership (Franchise Leadership Team & Project Investment Board); leads phase and business reviews, project meeting minutes, issues log, metrics, and other key communications.
• Partners and collaborates with a variety of functions, regions, and business resources to achieve project objectives.
• Ensures current BSC policies and practices are followed, including documentation requirements.
• Conducts periodic project post-mortems and communicates lessons learned and best practices to drive continuous improvement.

 

Required Qualifications:

 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Engineering or Business and 3+ years of work experience in product development 
• Demonstrated project management experience leading cross functional teams and managing project scope, schedule, and budget.
• Excellent organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Strong Emotional Intelligence, situational leadership, and ability to manage by influence.
• Results-oriented, positive attitude focused on delivering timely, accurate and best in class execution.
• Comfortable communicating to and presenting in front of all levels of the organization.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications

 

Preferred Qualifications and competencies:

• Experience in the medical device industry
• Previous New Product Development experience and/or knowledge of the Product Development Process (PDP)
• PMP® certification
• Technical or engineering background
• Technical Problem Solving expertise

 

Requisition ID: 584462

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.

 

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