Principal Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and team leadership to multiple large project teams or program teams. This may include directly leading one of the projects.
  • Drive the successful attainment of program goals.
• Project Planning and Scheduling:
  • Responsible for project or program planning and scheduling, clarifying and defining the scope of work, utilizing deliverable milestone methods and critical path scheduling, conducting resource planning and allocation, and developing task and project estimates.
  • Works with other project and program managers as well as functional managers to assess impact across other projects and programs based on resource needs.
  • Generates an integrated project plans that meet business objectives and are in compliance with the design control process, while maximizing resource efficiency.
• Project Execution and Control:
  • Responsible for conducting regular project or program team status meetings and reviews.
  • Ensures deliverables are completed and documented.
  • Identifies the need for and implements changes to the program and project plans that are within approved program and project boundaries.
  • Plan and conduct major program and supporting project and milestone reviews.
• Agile Project Management:
  • Participates in the decision-making process regarding when to employ the Agile methodology.
  • Ensure adequate resources are applied to Agile projects.
• Problem Solving Leadership:
  • Responsible for coordination of program and project resources and to identify individuals outside the specific project or program who would contribute to the identification of root cause(s) of program and project issues, and develop and manage a plan to fix, test, and implement an appropriate solution through completion.
• Risk Management Leadership:
  • Responsible for ensuring program and project risks, both technical risks and management risks, are identified and appropriate risk mitigation plans are included within the program and project plan.
  • Regularly assess and report the status of overall program risk remaining on a program.
  • Identify risk trends and patterns across the program and develop risk mitigation strategies for systemic risks.
  • Support periodic assessment of the overall portfolio risk.
• Design Control:
  • Creates and maintains file to current phase ensuring accuracy.
  • Ensure compliance with Design Control practices.
• Communication:
  • Responsible for program communication for both within the project team(s) and between the team(s) and executive management.
• Vendor Management:
  • Responsible for ensuring adequate oversight and control of vendors providing development, test or technical services that support the project.
  • May also participate in the assessment and selection of strategic partners.
• Cross Department Collaboration:
  • Responsible to establish communication channels with commercial functions, support team and infrastructure to ensure successful on market change(s) and/or new product introduction.
  • Uses input from commercial functions to influence and execute program plan.
• Conflict Resolution:
  • Able to resolve project and program team conflict through the application of listening skills, facilitation skills and negotiating skills.
  • Able to remove oneself from the problem.
  • Provides conflict resolution beyond the technical contributors and extends across the various departments of the organization.
  • Fosters a creative, professional climate that will maximize the contributions of technical and project team members.
• Resource Allocation:
  • Ensures that adequate equipment and material resources are available to advance the program and project(s) and achieve goals and objectives.
  • Works with other program and project managers to make the best use for the business of shared resources.
• Supervision and Employee Performance:
  • Demonstrated functional management expertise and skills in developing, mentoring and coaching others.
  • Works with functional management participating in skills/gap assessments and conducting performance appraisals and coaching for project core team members.
  • Works with functional management to develop a resourcing strategy to meet the need of the projects or programs for which they are responsible.
  • Provides direct supervision to Program Managers and Project Managers assigned to the program.
• Strategy Development:
  • Participants with top management in near-term planning concerning the strategy within a program and the impact across the portfolio.
• Budget Managed:
  • Prepares and maintains budgets for the portfolio of programs and projects.
  • Annual budget between $8 million and $13 million.
• Networking/Key Relationships:
  • To be determined based on department and project needs, to include interactions such as:
  • Coordination of review of documentation with Quality and Regulatory disciplines.
  • Communication of product changes with Manufacturing / Operations disciplines.
  • Communication of plans and status of projects with Marketing discipline.
  • Communication of plans and status with other programs and projects within R&D.