Careers that Change Lives
The Senior Principal Project Manager leads or leverages cross functional teams internally or externally to evaluate, develop and manage projects for research and technology.
A Day in the Life
- Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes and therapies.
- Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
- Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
- Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
- Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
- Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
- Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders.
- Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.
- Responsible for reporting complaints and Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)
- Responsible for the initiation, design, development, execution, and implementation of scientific research projects and grants.
- Responsible for developing schedules, plans, budget, deliverables and executing on schedule and budget.
- Investigates the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to potential inventions and products.
- Ensuring the appropriate processes are being followed and deliverables are being met on schedule.
- May coordinate interdepartmental activities and research efforts.
- May coordinate and develop grants with internal and external cross-functional teams.
- Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.
- Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
- Manages the development and implementation process of a company’s products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
- Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
- Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
- Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
- Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
- Gathers requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders.
MUST HAVE : MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS :
- KNOWLEDGE / EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree, or;
- Advanced degree.
JOB EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, with a bachelor's degree, or;
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, with an advanced degree.
SKILLS / COMPETENCIES
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
- Confident about being able to apply business acumen to help make pragmatic trade off decisions between time-to-market, product costs, product reliability, product features, and budget.
DESIRED / PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
KNOWLEDGE / EDUCATION
- The degree should be in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related areas.
- The degree should showcase practical work in front-end engineering through solving significant clinical gaps in current and novel markets.
JOB EXPERIENCE
- Managed teams
- Project management experience
- Technical
- Management :
o Experience managing junior and senior engineers including vendors, and manufacturers creating a mission driven culture across groups.
o Experience in financial modeling, budget management and forecasting
o Experience in assembling and managing a team of experts with varied domain expertise.
o Experience mentoring reports to nurture their interest, understand their strengths, ,areas of improvement and goals
Clinical expertise :
o Strong background in clinical study development and execution
o Experience in rigorous iterative product development tied with clinical experimentation, validation, and feedback.
Business acumen :
o Successfully facilitated funding from donor organizations or within the organization for personal or corporate projects
o Track record of conducting market analysis and customer discovery leading to new project areaso Experience in value-based healthcare models.
Technological expertise :
o Strong background in human-centered design and user-centered design
o Experience with model development and simulation studies.
o Experience in lean product development and agile development methods.
o Experience with Machine Learning, and Deep Learning networks.
o Experience in medical device productization quality system management, regulatory submissions, manufacturing, and iterative product development.
Organizational and soft skills :
o Proven track record in developing relationships and collaborating with an international set of varied partners. SKILLS / COMPETENCIES
Clinical expertise :
o Strong interest in human anatomy and physiology
o Understanding of the human cardiovascular and respiratory systems
o Ability to grasp medical concepts with ease and depth.
Business acumen :
o Familiarity with business model and plan development and iteration
o Expertise in patent landscape analysis and the patent application process.o Familiarity with FDA regulations and ISO standards in medical device development and IEC standards for software development
Technological expertise :
o Ability to distill core engineering principles for application in early concepts.
o Prowess with rapid prototyping and design of experiments for a rigorous datadriven approach to product development
o Firm understanding of mathematics and linear algebra used in computational modeling.
Organizational and soft skills :
o Communication skills that bridge varying roles within the company, hierarchy within the organization, and external partners
o Entrepreneurial mindset the ability to evaluate, initiate, and execute new directions for the business unit and company, leading projects and assembling teams to execute on reaching outcomes.
Base Salary Range : 120K - 180K