Portfolio/Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project and portfolio roadmaps, including priorities, milestones, resources, risks and key business commitments.
• Lead and manage multiple product development and strategic projects from concept through commercialization and production.
• Establish and manage project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables and success criteria.
• Maintain appropriate project plans, milestone schedules, risk/issue tracking and project documentation.
• Take ownership of project commitments and drive cross-functional accountability for timely completion of deliverables.
• Proactively identify and address project risks, delays, resource constraints and changing requirements, including development of mitigation or recovery plans.
• Partner with leadership to evaluate project priorities, resource needs, dependencies and competing business demands.
• Provide clear and timely communication to leadership regarding project status, risks, decisions and required actions.

Product Development & Cross-Functional Execution

• Lead the product development process from initial concept through design, validation, commercialization and production readiness.
• Lead cross-functional teams involving Engineering, Quality/Regulatory, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales/Marketing and Other Functions as appropriate.
• Ensure customer, product and technical requirements are clearly defined and incorporated into project plans.
• Coordinate project activities involving design reviews, verification and validation, design controls, change management and document control.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations and Supply Chain to address manufacturability, sourcing, quality, cost and production requirements.
• Establish clear responsibilities and accountability across project teams and drive decisions, actions and issue resolutions.
• Support compliance with Lumitex Quality Management System requirements and applicable regulated-product development processes.

Business, Customer & Organizational Support

• Communicate with customers, suppliers and external partners as needed to support product development and project execution.
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to understand customer needs, technical requirements and product-launch expectations.
• Support project-related cost, pricing, timing and commercial considerations as appropriate.
• Mentor and provide guidance to project team members, engineers, technicians and co-op students as assigned.
• Identify opportunities to improve project management processes, tools and cross-functional execution.