Project Manager

Steris Corporation•Eden Prairie, MN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe. Position Summary As a Project Manager you will lead highly visible and global critical projects within the STERIS Healthcare- Reprocessing business. This is a newly established discipline for our Eden Prairie location, offering the opportunity to help shape how project management is practiced. In this role you will direct all phases of the product development lifecycle—from concept through commercialization—while leading cross‑functional teams through stage-gate processes. You will work closely with onsite Quality and Operations teams, maintain strong collaboration with our PM team in Plymouth, MN, and partner with a highly integrated global team based in Germany. Managing tangible products moving through a real distribution pipeline, you will support high-speed, recurring-revenue business and be provided significant exposure to senior leadership across Healthcare- Reprocessing and the broader organization. This is a hybrid role with the requirement of working onsite at our Eden Prairie, MN location, multiple days a week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Minimum combined 5+ years’ experience in any of the following: project management product development, medical device or other regulated industry, new product development, supply chain, or manufacturing.
Experience leading projects from initial concept, through development and verification/validation testing, and into Manufacturing.
Ability to balance customer, manufacturing, business and regulatory requirements to expedite launch of the right product to market.
Demonstrated leadership skills including timely communication, conflict resolution, assertiveness, negotiation and driving results.
Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate within a team-based matrixed organization across all business functions, levels and cultures.
Experience in successfully coordinating with functional departments (e.g. Legal, Regulatory, Operations, Procurement, Clinical Affairs, Operations, Marketing, Quality, etc.)

Nice To Haves

PMP certification preferred.
Experience successfully managing program through medical device product development process preferred.
Passion to explore / deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to automate PM tasks.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Product Management team on business case justification.
Develop the cross-functional plan/execution strategy and drive implementation of identified products.
Ensure compliance with the Sourcing/ NPD / Design Control / lifecycle management processes across all functions.
Own the overall project management to ensure outcomes that meet quality, costs, reliability and manufacturability requirement.
Responsible for leading multiple projects in parallel.
Develop project schedule, financial budget and lead delivery / presentation of Sourcing/NPD Project Deliverables Plan at stage gates and at VP-level sponsor reviews.
Monitors project team adherence to master plans / schedules / operating budgets, proactively identifies program risks / mitigation solutions and promotes continuous improvement.
Act as the primary leader for project activities, leading decision-making / change management and technical performance requirements.
Drive project teams to make decisions, complete tasks, and execute the plan based on defined deliverables and timelines.
Facilitate communication and interaction across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, and Operation functional leadership to ensure transparency of critical deliverables, risks and milestones in the Supplier Transition/NPD process.
Conduct regular status meetings, technical discussions and reviews to expedite solutions and implementation.
Coordinate and allocate resources, including personnel, equipment, and materials.
Ensure smooth transition across the organization for initial concept through product development, manufacturing and product launch.
Identify critical dependences, risks and contingency plans.
Proactively monitors progress, anticipating the effect of dependencies on schedule, cost, etc.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating project outcomes, tracking key performance indicators identifying areas for optimization and implementing lessons learned.
Domestic travel up to 10%.