Senior Project Manager, R&D

Description

The company is a healthcare business working across Innovative Medicine and MedTech, and this role sits within its Orthopaedics team, which works on joint reconstruction, trauma and craniomaxillofacial, sports, extremities and foot and ankle, spine, and robotics and digital surgery. Orthopaedics is being separated into a standalone company called DePuy Synthes, expected to take 18 to 24 months and subject to legal requirements, works council and employee representative consultation, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. If you accept, and the transaction closes, you would likely become a DePuy Synthes employee governed by its policies, programs and benefit plans, with any planned changes communicated at an appropriate time and after any required consultation.

The role is in the Project and Program Management group, within R&D project management, and is a hybrid position in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It focuses mainly on the Trauma business, where the team develops orthopedic devices such as implants, instruments and other hardware. The work is hands-on and requires an understanding of the medical device development process, so you can link technical and business goals and judge how technical choices affect the project.

The team serves more than 6 million people each year and works to deliver clinical and economic value to surgeons and health systems. The company is developing smarter, less invasive and more personalized treatments.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional new product development projects across their phases, from initiation through launch.
• Own the integrated project plan, covering milestones, dependencies, critical path, resources, risks and key deliverables.
• Keep project scope, schedule, budget, resources and business commitments on track.
• Guide cross-functional teams in a matrixed setting, setting clear ownership, accountability, priorities and timing.
• Spot project risks, issues, schedule impacts, resource gaps and dependencies early, and lead mitigation or recovery plans.
• Connect the work of R&D and Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing and Operations, Supply Chain, Clinical, Marketing and other functions.
• Make sure plans cover design controls, risk management, verification and validation, regulatory work, manufacturing readiness, design transfer and launch.
• Lead alignment, trade-off discussions, decisions and issue resolution across functions.
• Set up effective project governance and keep project documentation current.
• Give clear, concise updates to project teams and leadership on overall health, milestones, critical path, risks, issues, decisions and required actions.
• Escalate significant risks and issues, with an assessment of likely impact and recommended actions.
• Ensure work complies with company policies, procedures, quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business or a related field.
• 4-6+ years of increasingly senior project or program management experience, including complex product development.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams in a regulated product development setting.
• Experience building and running integrated schedules with cross-functional dependencies, milestones and critical-path activities.
• Experience taking projects through several phases of the product development lifecycle.
• Strong skills in managing project risks, issues, dependencies and schedules.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization without direct authority.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation and leadership communication skills.
• Ability to understand technical information and turn it into project implications, risks, dependencies and actions.
• Preferred: an advanced technical or business degree.
• Preferred: PMP certification, or willingness to obtain it.
• Strongly preferred: medical device industry experience.
• Strongly preferred: orthopedic device experience, especially in trauma, implants, fixation systems, surgical instruments or related hardware.
• Preferred: experience with medical device design controls and structured new product development processes.
• Preferred: experience taking products through verification and validation, design transfer, manufacturing readiness and commercial launch.
• Preferred: experience with globally distributed project teams.

Conditions

Hybrid role based in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Base pay range is $92,000.00 to $148,350.00.

Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year.

Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year, or 48 hours for employees in Colorado and 56 hours for employees in Washington.

Holiday pay, including floating holidays: 13 days per calendar year.

Work, personal and family time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.

Parental leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child.

Bereavement leave: 240 hours for an immediate family member, or 40 hours for an extended family member, per calendar year.

Caregiver leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period, plus 10 days.

Volunteer leave: 32 hours per calendar year.

Military spouse time off: 80 hours per calendar year.

Policy and eligibility depend on the terms of each plan and your date of hire.

The company is an equal-opportunity employer and will provide interview accommodations on request.

Benefits

• Participation in the company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)), subject to plan terms.
• Time-off benefits listed in conditions, subject to policy and date of hire.