Senior Project Manager Endoluminal BU

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:

Reporting to the Endoluminal PMO Manager, you will be accountable for the management of both New Product Development (NPD) and Sustaining projects for the Endoluminal Business Unit.  You will be aligning engineering, clinical, and regulatory schedules, ensuring that the right products are created and delivered at the time of market introduction to ensure the success of the platform.  Your influence will be critical to ensure excellent cross-functional communication and coordination, and you will play a key role in the prioritization and development of new technologies for the platform.

The position requires experience in medical technology products and be able to combine that experience with a knowledge of bringing projects through a development cycle and delivering them on-time and on-budget.  The role requires an understanding of product development and manufacturing, project management, and most importantly managing through influence. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage cross-functional development teams across the Business Unit and Shared Services, providing oversight on critical projects, and ensuring the teams deliver against their commitments within the project contract.
• Manages the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project objectives.  Escalates threats to project plan as required to functional management and senior leadership
• Ongoing collaboration with the cross-functional teams to update weekly / monthly / quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are understood, planned for, and crisply executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions
• Provides regular updates in form of status updates and stage gate review presentations with highlighting risks and mitigation plans to senior management
• Works across the organization and external partners (as needed) to align functional support and input for the project 
• Ensures Project management processes are followed per relevant procedures by functional team members. 
• Contributes to Project management process optimization and strategies via lessons learned, resource leveling, process input and sharing and developing best practices

Qualifications

Skill/Job Requirements

• Minimum Four-year degree (Bachelor’s degree or global equivalent) in a scientific field preferred; business, finance or related field will be considered in conjunction with experience. MS/MA/MBA is a plus.
• Minimum required experience is 8 years with a bachelor’s degree and 6 years with a masters degree.  This must include hands-on experience with development and commercialization of highly technical medical devices.
• Understanding of Design Controls under US and International Regulations
• Experience in managing and mentoring junior staff and consultant resources desired
• Certification in project management (PMP, CSM) desired
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; proficient knowledge of program/project management software (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, collaboration tools) desired
• Strong project management, planning, dec