Senior COE Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Leverage your medical device labeling and packaging experience to drive and manage labeling and packaging key initiatives and technology implementation projects.
• Define, develop and maintain both high level and detailed project plans, metrics and dashboards as well as any related budgets, including comprehensive ROI and risk assessment/mitigation plans.
• Leverage your ability to lead without direct reports, be an independent subject matter expert, knowledgeable resource, facilitator, and coach to the Packaging & Labeling organization.
• Develop high functioning project teams through strong communication and organizational skills. Ability to work across matrixed teams.
• Lead design, development and testing workflows and teams for critical functional labeling and packaging enhancement tools and projects.
• Utilize lean sigma and standardized project management tools, oversee and manage project teams supporting project deliverables without direct reporting lines ensuring all functional requirements are met.
• Independently identify critical path activities and work with various functions to eliminate road blocks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Partner with business owners and key stakeholders globally to ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities and keep business owners in the loop on progress, milestones, risks and any needed escalations.
• Gain alignment and acceptance for ideas, plans and actions and implement across organizational boundaries.
• Effectively Lead project team meetings to ensure clear agenda, effective actions and results.
• Successfully complete deliverables using standardized lean and PMP project tools and content management systems.
• Develop and present slide decks regarding project status and milestones to direct management, cross-functional teams, steering committees and other senior leadership.
• Proactively provide coaching to COE team on tools, leveraging your expertise as a project manager and lean sigma to enable the structured process and delivery of all key project initiatives and ensure completion.
• Independent thinker with demonstrated skills in identifying opportunities and translating ideas into actionable full-scale improvement projects, driving from initiation through to completion.
• Delivery of project milestones that support process / technology and other initiatives across the Packaging & Labeling organization that improve quality, cost, delivery and compliance leveraging experience in the Life Sciences industry.
• Facilitating the process for improvement projects, managing dashboards, metrics and communication process for product related projects and process/technology related initiatives.
• Ability to develop and drive change management strategies.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Life Sciences, Packaging and/ or Labeling, Project Management or related field.
• Experience leading large-scale projects that leverage cross-functional teams that span multiple functions and global sites/teams.
• Experience as a project or program manager focused on continuous improvement.
• Experience in life sciences industry, preferably working in packaging and/or labeling area.
• Black Belt or Master Black Belt in Lean Sigma preferred, not required (could be company specific).
• PMP certification preferred, not required.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in lean sigma and continuous improvement as well as expert project management and KPI skills.
• Expertise in, and / or the ability and interest in developing a strong understanding of the PDP process and our product portfolio.
• Strong software skills specifically related to project management (e.g. advanced experience in Excel, Project, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Interested in not only driving your own projects but helping others to understand tools and systems to deliver on key improvement strategies.
• Willingness to share your knowledge and learn new things.
• High level demonstrated communication skills both verbal and written.
• Strong leadership presence. Ability to gain consensus and make decisions/recommendations.

Skills

• Familiarity with packaging and product labeling in the medical device landscape, including IFUs, User Manuals, package labeling, online printing and package engineering.
• Understanding of technology and automation in labeling development and / or manufacturing packaging systems and equipment.
• Understanding of labeling and packaging regulations and the impact of these on processes, systems and tools used for packaging and labeling.
• Experience working across and up an organization as well as cross functionally, managing and assigning tasks to project resources to ensure high quality, on-time completion of project deliverables.
• Expertise in developing and driving change management strategies.

Benefits

The Base Pay Range For This Position Is $172,690 - $237,446 Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• life insurance
• long-term and short-term disability insurance
• paid parking/public transportation
• paid time off
• paid sick and safe time