Systems Program Manager - Endoluminal BU

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks an experienced project leader to guide the development and manufacturing of Endoluminal system hardware and/or software. You will align engineering, manufacturing and regulatory schedules to ensure the right product is delivered at market introduction, supporting the platform's success.

This role requires substantial medical technology experience and the ability to manage through influence across functions.

Responsibilities

• Manage cross-functional development teams across the BU and Shared Services to deliver on project commitments.
• Manage the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to update reports on project status and align dependencies.
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and support scheduling tradeoffs.
• Provide status updates and stage-gate reviews with risks and mitigation plans to senior management.
• Coordinate with external suppliers to align input for the project.
• Ensure Project management processes are followed per procedures by functional teams.
• Contribute to process optimization and lessons learned.

Job description

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

Reporting to the Endoluminal PMO Manager, you will be accountable for the leadership of projects related to the development and manufacturing of system hardware and/or software for the Endoluminal Business Unit. You will be aligning engineering, manufacturing 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.

The position requires significant experience in medical technology products and the ability to combine that experience with knowledge of bringing projects through a development cycle, manufacturing transfer and launch.This role requires an understanding of product development process, manufacturing, supplier management, project management, and most importantly managing through influence.

Essential Job Duties

• 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 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 suppliers 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, …