Senior Project Manager

2 weeks ago


Sunnyvale, California, United States Intuitive Surgical Full time
Job Description

The Senior Project Manager is part of the PMO and organizes a diverse set of activities of the Program Management Office within the New Product Development organization. The PMO group is accountable for leading cross functional teams developing for new products, and consists of project managers, program managers and project coordinators.

The Senior Project Manager, PMO orchestrates the activities of their project teams to deliver compelling final product designs within fast-paced product release schedules. The Senior Project Manager, PMO must be highly organized and detail-oriented, and interact fluidly and effectively with numerous people and departments. The Senior Project Manager, PMO will have a close working relationship with the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Human, Technical Publications, Training, Service, Finance, and Marketing departments, as well as other program and project managers.

Essential Job Duties

  • Manage cross-functional project teams for product development and production improvements
  • Ensure Design Control processes are followed per relevant procedures
  • Facilitate and ensure that complex, high-value Business Unit projects are properly scoped, resourced, and communicated to minimize risk, deliver on-time and on-budget
  • Organize and manage team meetings, design review meetings, phase gate review meetings
  • Create and maintain project schedules
  • Develop and monitor project budgets
  • Provide clear communication to the organization on project status, critical path, as well as potential areas of risk
  • Plan and track the creation of the design history documents for projects by the project teams
  • Work with Operations and Manufacturing management to determine strategies for product cut-ins and roll-ins
  • Support in defining and aligning project goals with business unit and corporate goals
  • Organize and prioritize the work of the teams to accomplish the targets
  • Support team members including functional managers across the business to plan and execute the activities required to achieve project initiatives
  • Support resource demand planning for project teams including estimating project work efforts, needs, roles and responsibilities
  • Communicate project priorities and key project deliverables and milestones broadly including within the PMO team, to all cross-functional team members, to business unit management, and to shared services management
  • Coordinate effectively with other project managers who are driving overall product development programs, to know about project goals, scope, and timelines, and help functional managers negotiate resources and schedules
  • Facilitate best practices and feedback to PMO organization and seek areas of process improvements

Ideal Candidate:

  • A highly passionate person who cares deeply about delivering improved surgical solutions to patients and has a proven ability to coordinate the efforts of talented people
  • Exceptional project/program management, planning, recommendation making, negotiating, communication, and change management skills
  • Experience and skills developing medical device products through Design Controls with a very high level of complexity including capital equipment and consumables with demonstrated success at product launches as a result of completing product development cycles
  • Proven ability to head, influence and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment
  • Experience with leading people within a project team that includes many engineering disciplines, including clinical, mechanical, electrical, and software
  • Exceptional aptitude for cultivating partnership across department boundaries and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority to ensure project success
  • Proven success recognizing critical issues with the ability to react quickly under pressure, and drive issues to closure by providing coordinated direction
  • High attention to detail, proven ability to manage multiple, different priorities simultaneously
  • Must work well under pressure, be flexible, and meet deadlines
  • Energetic person with a drive for results, who sees accountability, has a great attitude, is a team-player, self-starter with high degree of initiative, urgency, and follow through
  • Willing to go the extra mile with an excellent work ethic; self-directed and resourceful with the ability to deal with conflict and drive to solution
  • Ability to handle ambiguity effectively and oversee multiple projects at once
  • Run a large number of people on a variety of programs
  • Have a commitment to constantly develop new and better processes for product development including program management


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