Project Manager

Raleigh, North Carolina

AA2IT
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Title - Product Development Project Manager

Location - Raleigh, NC (hybrid remote- 3 days in office)

Duration - 6 months with extension

Pay Rate - $72/hr

As a Project Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in bringing new products to the market to make a positive impact on our client's customers - to help them live better, feel better and look better. The Project Manager reports to the Director of Program Management, Energy-Based Devices and works within our Project Management team in Raleigh, North Carolina.

This person will lead and support new and ongoing product development projects, working towards achieving project milestones while ensuring the work meets customer-driven and marketing requirements while also meeting business, quality, regulatory, and operational requirements.

The role requires excellent Project Management skills, a good understanding of managing projects as part of a cross-functional product development team in a highly regulated industry. Close collaboration and teamwork with other internal functions (Engineering, Clinical , Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Product Safety, Marketing, and Medical Affairs) along with external suppliers and consulting partners will be critically important for overall success.

The ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of Project Management practices, principles, and tools as applied in a medical device product development environment. In addition, the candidate will need to have strong leadership and communication skills coupled with a mindset that is biased toward action and problem-solving with a demonstrated ability to manage challenging, complex goals and objectives.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

1. Project Planning
• Effectively lead, guide, manage, and mentor a cross-functional teams comprised of both internal and external contributors to deliver products to a successful market launch.

• Responsible for the planning and coordination of all project team activities, translating strategy into cross-functional integrated project plans

• Prioritize project tasks by identifying the critical path, working to remove any obstacles or barriers, and resolving issues or conflicts to progress the project objectives.

2. Budget Management
• Define, monitor, and manage project budgets, including quarterly forecasting and monthly budget reporting

• Assist, as needed, the respective functional team member with the contracting process for outsourced activities including review and approval of the contract as necessary according to the approved project budget.

3. Risk Management
• Anticipate and proactively manage project risks and issues. Develop specific mitigation and corrective action strategies as needed.

4. Resource Management
• Manage resources within a project team and as needed negotiate with respective functional groups for time allocation of required personnel for a project.

5. Communication
• Facilitate project team meetings, set agendas, publish meeting minutes, follow-up on action items, and maintain required project documentation.

• Develop presentations and communicate project status against key project milestones and budget for a broad set of stakeholders.

6. Further Tasks
• Lead ad-hoc projects and/or multidisciplinary task forces for ongoing development and/or refining of processes as needed.

• Motivate and mentor the team to achieve set project objectives.

Job related qualifications/skills:

Education

- Minimum Bachelor's degree in scientific, engineering, or health care discipline Required

- Advanced degree in scientific, engineering, or health care discipline or MBA Preferred

Professional experience

- At least 5 years of experience in pharma, medical device product development Required

- At least 2 years of experience in the role of Project Manager/Leader of cross-functional projects Required
Date Posted: 01 May 2024
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