Project Manager R&D

JOB TITLE: Project Manager

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Manager is responsible for driving successful project delivery at our strategic Costa Rica R&D Center of Excellence, ensuring execution excellence in sustaining and product development activities across our advanced medical device portfolio. Working closely with a cross-functional core team, this position exercises technical project management skills to deliver high-quality product sustainment and development efforts on schedule, on budget, and within scope.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Create and execute project plans and revises as appropriate for project needs and status.
• Define and manage sustaining and iterative development projects of small to moderate scope.
• Facilitate and coordinate activities and tasks involving project scope, schedule and budget.
• Facilitate the definition of quality and risk and manages the project accordingly.
• Track status and metrics on the project delivery involving scope, schedule and budget.
• Resolve and/or escalate project-related issues in a timely fashion.
• Manage communications, expectations, and interactions with all departments and internal stakeholders.
• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations on project status and selected project topics.
• Track lessons learned and shares with team members
• Drive risk mitigation strategies to ensure delivery of project commitments
• Manage development teams across onshore and offshore locations
• Continuously improve effectiveness and efficiencies of a team’s performance and productivity
• Support teams and projects in the completion of Design Control artifacts and deliverables
  
  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline required or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered

Experience

• 3+ years of project management experience
• Track record of successful project delivery
• Experience managing multiple concurrent development projects
• Experience working with distributed/offshore teams and stakeholders
• Experience with project management tools and tracking systems.
  
  

Skills

• Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close.
• Experience in defining objectives, budgets, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.
• Demonstrated project planning, estimation, and resource management capabilities
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate cross-functional teams
• Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills
• Experience facilitating team meetings
• Excellent verbal and written English communication abilities
• Strong interpersonal and team-building capabilities
• Demonstrated leadership and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Decision-making skills under pressure
• Ability to understand and communicate technical system features, functionality and dependencies
• Shown ability to effectively collaborate with third party vendors, technical resources and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with FDA Design Controls and QMS processes desired
  
  

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Project management professional (PMP) certification desired
  
  

JOB TITLE: Project Manager

Skills

• Ability to manage the project lifecycle from initiation to close.
• Experience in defining objectives, budgets, detailed work breakdown structures, and schedules for a large or complex set of related projects or programs.
• Demonstrated project planning, estimation, and resource management capabilities
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate cross-functional teams
• Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills
• Experience facilitating team meetings
• Excellent verbal and written English communication abilities
• Strong interpersonal and team-building capabilities
• Demonstrated leadership and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Decision-making skills under pressure
• Ability to understand and communicate technical system features, functionality and dependencies
• Shown ability to effectively collaborate with third party vendors, technical resources and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with FDA Design Controls and QMS processes desired
  
  

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Project management professional (PMP) certification desired