R&D PMO Leader: Sustaining & NPD Portfolio

CONMED Corporation; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Excellent healthcare coverage

Disability insurance (short & long)

Job summary

CONMED Corporation in Denver, CO is seeking a seasoned R&D Manager of PMO Sustaining to lead portfolio governance and guide project execution across cross-functional teams. This hybrid role requires strong leadership, risk management, and a track record delivering patient impact.

You will chair governance forums, manage the CEO dashboard, and develop resource plans while ensuring quality, regulatory compliance, and on-time delivery within a regulated medical device environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of engineering and/or project management experience required, or demonstrated equivalent experience through advanced education, training, or relevant professional achievements.
• Demonstrated success managing concurrent projects or initiatives with competing priorities, including ownership of timelines, budgets, resource allocation, cross-functional stakeholder alignment, and dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Leadership & Governance: Lead the Advanced Surgical NPD portfolio. Establish clear priorities, decision points, and governance expectations aligned with business objectives.
• Project Execution: Guide project managers and cross-functional teams in defining scope, schedules, budgets, milestones, deliverables, and success criteria. Ensure disciplined execution to approved timelines, maintain accountability for commitments and deliverables, and uphold quality and compliance requirements.
• Project Review Board Leadership: Lead Project Review Board meetings, portfolio reviews, and executive updates. Clearly communicate project metrics, risks, tradeoffs, resource needs, and required decisions.
• Innovation Advisory Board & Pipeline Support: Support the Innovation Advisory Board content creation and governance activities, including materials that inform innovation pipeline prioritization and decision‑making.
• CEO Dashboard Management: Maintain the CEO dashboard and provide the PMO leader with timely, critical updates on portfolio performance, risks, and emerging issues.
• Risk Management: Promote proactive identification, documentation, mitigation, and escalation of project, technical, supply, regulatory, and execution risks.
• Resource & Capacity Planning: Develop and maintain resource waterline views, capacity models, and staffing recommendations across NPD work. Partner with functional leaders to resolve constraints and align resources to priority work.
• Budget Management: Own the Advanced Surgical NPD portfolio budget, including annual planning, forecasting, contractor management, capital investments, and cost improvement initiatives. Provide financial oversight through budget tracking, variance analysis, reporting, and proactive recommendations to support strategic business decisions and portfolio execution.
• PMO Systems & Process Improvement: Improve and maintain project management standards, templates, intake processes, dashboards, metrics, and portfolio tools, including Smartsheet‑based solutions.
• Stakeholder Management: Build alignment across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Operations, Marketing, Finance, and other business partners. Communicate complex portfolio information clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• People Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of project management professionals. Set clear expectations, strengthen accountability, support professional development, and foster a collaborative, high‑performing culture.

Skills

People leadership

PMP certification

Medical device industry

Analytical thinking

Communication & influence

Coaching

Governance

Risk management

Performance reporting

Smartsheet

Excel

PowerPoint

Tools

Smartsheet

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

CONMED Corporation in Denver, CO is seeking a seasoned R&D Manager of PMO Sustaining to lead portfolio governance and guide project execution across cross-functional teams. This hybrid role requires strong leadership, risk management, and a track record delivering patient impact.

You will chair governance forums, manage the CEO dashboard, and develop resource plans while ensuring quality, regulatory compliance, and on-time delivery within a regulated medical device environment.