Program Manager

Program Manager

Permanent

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead.

About Heraeus Medevio

Together we improve lives. At Heraeus Medevio, we bring lifesaving and life-changing medical devices to market through partnerships with medical device manufacturing companies. Backed by Heraeus Group, we are committed to the growth of our teams and organization by providing an open space for open minds. To reach our vision of improving 100 million lives every year, we foster a culture of curiosity that thrives on challenge, continuous learning, growth, and the opportunity to try new things. With sites in the United States, European Union, and Asia, and over 2,200 employees worldwide, together, we will meet tomorrow's challenges today.

Position Summary 
In this position, the Program Manager will lead cross-functional development teams within the electrophysiology business to complete all tasks necessary to effectively plan, execute, control, and complete projects and/or programs. The Program Manager will also support new project planning to secure future business.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional teams and engage with customers for complex programs/projects (e.g. active electrical catheters or sub-assemblies for design, contract manufacturing or transfer projects)

• Support new project planning to secure future business

• Collaborate with team and customer to create aligned plans and schedules

• Manage, direct, and delegate project activities needed to achieve project objectives, with a strong understanding of resources, skills, and timing necessary to meet competing project schedules

• Anticipate, assess, and mitigate project risks and provide visibility to cross-functional leadership and customers clearly and concisely

• Establish strong ownership of all project reporting/communication and governance requirements, internally and externally, at peer and executive levels (e.g. project status, resource planning, KPIs)

• Establish strong ownership of the full project life cycle, driving successful results through leadership from initiation to deployment of the project

• Effectively communicate complex information with varying levels of collaborators, including customers and stakeholders

• Develop and improve project management tools, systems, and processes alongside project managers and cross-functional teams

• Partner with Finance and Portfolio Management to develop business cases and ROI for projects and capital expenditures

• Coach and mentor less experienced team members (as applicable)

• Support other duties as assigned

What is required for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree preferred

• PMP or PgMP certification desirable

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience required

• Demonstrated mastery of project management tools, processes, and best practices using multiple project management methodologies

• Strong understanding of organizational relationships, dependencies, and escalation paths

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Established ability to positively motivate and influence others to build strong teams

• Extensive experience driving risk management activities to identify, assess, control, and learn from project risks

• Expert level understanding and application of finance fundamentals as related to programs/projects

• Demonstrated mastery of conflict resolution

• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Proven history of driving and managing change successfully

• Must be willing to travel up to 25%, mainly between Minnesota and Costa Rica

Medevio is committed to providing competitive total compensation and benefits packages. The expected base salary hiring range for this position is between $120,000.00 and $150,000.00, based upon a full-time schedule. This is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. Base salaries are determined by taking a variety of factors in account, including, but not limited to, candidate qualifications, geographic locations, market conditions and internal equity. This position is bonus eligible, with a target bonus of 15% of base salary depending upon company and individual performance. Our total compensation package also includes eligibility for comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, education reimbursement, paid parental leave and paid time off.