Primary Function of Position:

Reporting to the Endoluminal PMO Manager, you will be accountable for the management of both New Product Development (NPD) and Sustaining projects for the Endoluminal Business Unit.  You will be aligning engineering, clinical, and regulatory schedules, ensuring that the right products are created and delivered at the time of market introduction to ensure the success of the platform.  Your influence will be critical to ensure excellent cross-functional communication and coordination, and you will play a key role in the prioritization and development of new technologies for the platform.

The position requires experience in medical technology products and be able to combine that experience with a knowledge of bringing projects through a development cycle and delivering them on-time and on-budget.  The role requires an understanding of product development and manufacturing, project management, and most importantly managing through influence. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage cross-functional development teams across the Business Unit and Shared Services, providing oversight on critical projects, and ensuring the teams deliver against their commitments within the project contract.
• Manages the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project objectives.  Escalates threats to project plan as required to functional management and senior leadership
• Ongoing collaboration with the cross-functional teams to update weekly / monthly / quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are understood, planned for, and crisply executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions
• Provides regular updates in form of status updates and stage gate review presentations with highlighting risks and mitigation plans to senior management
• Works across the organization and external partners (as needed) to align functional support and input for the project 
• Ensures Project management processes are followed per relevant procedures by functional team members. 
• Contributes to Project management process optimization and strategies via lessons learned, resource leveling, process input and sharing and developing best practices

Skill/Job Requirements

• Minimum Four-year degree (Bachelor’s degree or global equivalent) in a scientific field preferred; business, finance or related field will be considered in conjunction with experience. MS/MA/MBA is a plus.
• Minimum required experience is 8 years with a bachelor’s degree and 6 years with a masters degree.  This must include hands-on experience with development and commercialization of highly technical medical devices.
• Understanding of Design Controls under US and International Regulations
• Experience in managing and mentoring junior staff and consultant resources desired
• Certification in project management (PMP, CSM) desired
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; proficient knowledge of program/project management software (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, collaboration tools) desired
• Strong project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills
  • Comfortable with all phases of the project and product lifecycle including idea generation, concept, design, development, V&V testing and manufacturing transfer
  • Experience in analyzing tradeoffs between product features, customer needs/requirements and cost
  • Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, set actionable goals and drive metrics and execution
  • Experience with Business Process Management
  • Experience with schedule, budget, cost and risk management tracking tools
• Ability to work in a dynamic work environment.
• Proven ability to lead, influence and work well at all levels of an organization and in a cross functional team environment
• Seeks, recognizes, and executes creative and simple solutions to resolve complex project challenges; routinely steadies the team when stressed; leads by example
• Strong relationship building, customer focus and facilitation skills
• Excellent communication (written, verbal), presentation and documentation skills

Due to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside, or plan to reside, in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.