Senior Project Manager, PMO (New Product Development) at Intuitive

Primary Function of Position  The Senior Project Manager, PMO organizes a diverse set of activities of the Program Management Office (PMO) group within the New Product Development organization. The PMO group is responsible for leading cross functional teams in new product development and continuation engineering initiatives, and consists of project managers, program managers and project coordinators. The Senior Project Manager, PMO orchestrates the activities of their project teams to deliver compelling final product designs within demanding product release schedules. This role will also have a focus on vision and imaging products including endoscopes, light sources, and hardware and software enabled imaging modalities. The Senior Project Manager, PMO must be highly organized and detail-oriented, and interact fluidly and effectively with numerous individuals and departments. The Senior Project Manager, PMO will have a close working relationship with the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical, Human Factors, Technical Publications, Training, Service, Finance, and Marketing departments, as well as other program and project managers. Essential Job Duties  • Lead cross-functional project teams for product development and product improvements • Ensure Design Control processes are followed per relevant procedures • Facilitate and ensure that complex, high-value Business Unit projects are properly scoped, resourced, and communicated to minimize risk, deliver on-time and on-budget • Organize and manage team meetings, design review meetings, phase gate review meetings • Create and maintain project schedules • Develop and monitor project budgets • Provide clear communication to the organization on project status, critical path, as well as potential areas of risk • Plan and track the creation of the design history documents for projects by the project teams. • Work with Operations and Manufacturing management to determine strategies for product cut-ins and roll-ins • Support in defining and aligning project goals with business unit and corporate objectives.  Organize and prioritize the work of the teams to accomplish the objectives. • Support team members including functional managers across the business to plan and execute the activities required to achieve project goals. • Support resource demand planning for project teams including estimating project work efforts, needs, roles and responsibilities.   • Communicate project priorities and key project deliverables and milestones broadly including within the PMO team, to all cross-functional team members, to business unit management, and to shared services management.  • Coordinate effectively with other project managers who are driving overall product development programs, to understand project goals, scope, and timelines, and help functional managers negotiate resources and schedules. • Facilitate best practices sharing and feedback to PMO organization and seek areas of process improvements