Senior Project Manager

Senior Project 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.

 

The primary responsibility of this position is to lead cross-functional development teams to complete all work necessary to effectively initiate, plan, execute, control, and complete projects. The Senior Project Manager must build strong teams, prioritize activities, manage risks, and communicate effectively with stakeholders to meet project objectives for scope, budget, and timeline.

What you get to do everyday:

• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership and customers to create an aligned overall project plan and schedule for complex projects (e.g. contract manufacturing of assemblies or part families, contract design, original device design, 510k, CI, and/or site improvement/expansion/transfer projects).
• Manage and direct 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.
• Complete resource planning/reporting to achieve project deliverables.
• Develop and improve project management tools, systems, and processes alongside project managers and cross-functional teams.
• Conduct project portfolio scenario analysis as needed to inform tradeoffs.
• Partner with Finance and Portfolio Management to support business case development and ROI assessments for projects and capital expenditures.
• Establish strong ownership of all project reporting/communication and governance requirements, internally and externally, at peer and executive levels (e.g. project governance, 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.
• Support project costing initiatives and partner with Commercial, Portfolio, and R&D personnel to develop inputs to project proposals.
• Coaches and mentors less experienced project managers (formally or informally).
• Other duties as required or assigned.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree helpful
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience required
• Expert level knowledge and application of project management tools, processes, and best practices using multiple project management methodologies
• An established history of building strong teams and cross-functional relationships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to interact with a diverse group of project stakeholders including customers, executives, peers, managers, and subject matter experts
• Proven competence in completing projects according to established scope, budget, and timelines
• Extensive experience guiding teams in risk assessment and mitigation activities
• Strong knowledge and application of finance fundamentals as related to projects
• Expert level background in conflict resolution
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and leading through it

Medevio is committed to providing competitive total compensation and benefits packages. The expected base salary hiring range for this position is between $115,000.00 and $140,000.00, 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 10% 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.