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Director of Program Management

Minneapolis, MN 55441

Posted: 01/29/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Project Management Job Number: 598096 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

Job Description

Pay is commiserate with experience and ranges between $80-100/hr
 
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.

 

What You'll Bring:
  • A Bachelors degree is required; MBA or Masters 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.
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