Sr. Program Manager (medical device / pharmaceutics, PMI, IPMA)

Job Title - Sr. Program Manager (medical device / pharmaceutics, PMI, IPMA)

Location - Plymouth, Minnesota

Job Duration: 12 months

Position Overview

The Kidney Care product portfolio includes Peritoneal Dialysis (cyclers, solutions and Sharesource ecosystem including remote patient management, analytics, decision support, MyPD patient mobile app and Adquest prescription drug management); Hemodialysis (monitor systems, dialyzers, bloodlines, ancillaries, water systems and digital health solutions via EMR connectivity and fleet management); and organ support therapies (Acute Therapies), including continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and digital health solutions.

Kidney patients are on a journey that begins in the early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and often progresses to dialysis and then, hopefully, transplant.

As a global leader in kidney care innovation, we drive greater access to home and in-center dialysis therapies through customer and patient services and industry-leading technologies that are supported by a robust innovation pipeline.

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is often performed in the home, while the patient sleeps.

Hemodialysis (HD) is most often performed in-center, three days a week, four hours a day.

As Director of Program Management, R&D Kidney Care, you will lead a team of other core members and are responsible for consolidating multiple facilities (and their associated functions) into one larger site while ensuring continuity of service during the transition.

The project scope, budget, resourcing, coordination and communication across multiple sites and multiple business functions will be your responsibility.

You will establish, monitor and actively manage the facilities move project budget including all capital, direct and indirect expenses and will be responsible for driving cross functional integration and collaboration in support for this site consolidation project.

In this highly visible, global role, you will participate in the implementation of and ensure that the program management process is consistently practiced.

Furthermore, you’ll be accountable for enabling project core teams to be successful by ensuring detailed planning & budgeting, team operating mechanisms are established, execution activities are driven and monitored and effective communications between teams and all functional/business stakeholders are occurring.

You’ll be responsible for monitoring, identifying issues / opportunities for improvement and driving the implementation of changes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Accountable for core team performance, program schedule and execution, budget commitments and spend across the project.
• Leads team in developing goals and ensuring program scope is defined and controlled across the process.
• Continuously interacts with all functions and levels of management ensuring effective ongoing communications across teams and stakeholders.
• Participates on the business leadership team as appropriate to integrate the R&D point of view / needs into the business strategies and activities.
• Ensures identification and communication of project risks, development of risk plan and response strategies.
• Anticipates potential conflict situations and helps identify proactive solutions and manages conflict situations to result in win-win outcomes.
• Contributes to planning and appropriately influences business strategy through strong business partnership/credibility.
• Proactively identify and communicate risks and issues and collaboratively develops and drives mitigation efforts.
• Embraces agile ways of working in support of a fail-fast-learn-fast culture and enabling continual improvement.
• Travel expected is ~ 15%
  
  

Your Team

Reporting to the Senior Director of Acute Systems Therapies R&D, Global Kidney Care segment, you will lead a team of cross-functional representatives.

Furthermore, you’ll interact globally with Commercial, R&D, Medical Affairs, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Regulatory, etc.

Your Location: The role is located at our R&D site in the greater Minneapolis, MN area suburb of Plymouth, MN.

What You’ll Bring

• A Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA or Master’s degree preferred.
• PMI, IPMA or equivalent certification desired
• 10 years project management experience and 15 years of product life cycle experience with demonstrated success leading multi-site, global or enterprise-wide programs; medical device, pharmaceutics, biotechnology or other highly regulated industry is preferred.
• Experience in operations (manufacturing, supply chain) and site/facilities/construction projects are ideal.
• Business acumen; strong communication skills, learning agility and working in ambiguity highly preferred.
• Role model of Vital Behaviors and Leadership Essentials
• Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Laboratory or Clinical Practices and Product Development Process requirements
• Expertise in all aspects of program management
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and develop others.