PD PMO Manager - New Ventures

MiniMed•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$136,000 - $204,000

About The Position

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a connected, compassionate world. MiniMed is looking for a PD Program Manager for our New Ventures group. As a key member of the team to lead New Venture programs. In this exciting role as a Program Manager, you will have responsibility for providing program leadership to cross-functional New Venture programs. New Ventures is focused on developing new diabetes systems, products and solutions in an inorganic, accelerator environment. Our team is unique in that we can adapt to a variety of business, patient and marketplace needs that span the entire spectrum of our product portfolio today and in the future. Our mission drives the need to be a highly skilled, flexible, extremely efficient, versatile and agile team in medical device product development for the benefit of our patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in need of intensive insulin therapy. The Program Manager is responsible for driving strategy and the execution of programs that deliver products for patients in need of emerging solutions to help manage their diabetes. Using broad cross-functional knowledge and comprehensive management skills, the program manager will provide leadership and direction to and collaborate with a cross-functional program development team including co-collaborators, outside partners and internal members with expertise from a wide variety of engineering and product development disciplines. Some of these team member disciplines include engineering (mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, manufacturing), operations, marketing, clinical regulatory affairs, quality and other key business functions. In addition, the program manager will generate a program plan based on input from the team which details a comprehensive plan for the program including scope, risks, work product, resources, interdependencies and schedule. As the leader of the program, the program manager will engage senior leadership and be the owner of the program performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years or an advanced degree with 3+ years of experience
Mastery and proficiency in product development and new product introduction, including clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of cross-functional project teams and functional management
Business acumen: ability to think and act from an overall “best for the business” perspective
Results oriented, self-starter with a strong initiative and sense of urgency
Enthusiasm and a desire to affect change
Experience and demonstrated track record of leading within complex organizations requiring strong team leadership and influencing skills
Excellent communication skills and interpersonal/team effectiveness - ability to succinctly and accurately communicate to various levels of management and employees.
Effective decision-making skills - experience negotiating and balancing decisions and priorities across needs of several functional departments and willingness to make tough decisions.
Makes timely decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.
Strong analytical, planning, organization and time management skills to effectively develop and execute comprehensive programs and budgets.
Experience with MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, VISIO, Outlook, SharePoint, Jira, OneNote and other collaboration and workflow management tools

Nice To Haves

Program management experience in the medical device domain with emphasis in Class III Implantable medical devices and external devices that communicate with them
Experience managing Contract Development/Manufacturing organizations
Strong program management skills
Project Management Certification, such as PMP
Knowledge of Program Phase-In and Phase-Out Planning
Influence management skills; experience working collaboratively at all levels in matrix environment to build and maintain the positive relationships required to accomplish organizational goals

Responsibilities

Plan and lead New Product Introduction and Sustaining programs from conception through commercialization
Program Planning: Program charters, program plans, Resource (expense and FTE), key risks and mitigation strategy, program schedule and interdependence
Program Execution: Leading the program team against plan
Coaching and mentoring team members
Effective risk management
Tracking program schedule
Creation, reconciliation and tracking of program budget
Effective conflict resolution
Communication with leaderships, management and team members including appropriate risk and escalation management
Build a solid and high performing team with clear communication to leadership, extended team members, and enabling functions
Engages team members to ensure effective team dynamics and mutual accountability.
Bring and implement program management best practices within team.
Influence positive change outside of Program Management team
Provides regular updates and strategies for executive management review and decision making around program priorities, budget, timing, resources and assumptions, including impact on the customer, enterprise-wide resources, and revenues.