Duration:
12 Plus Months
Position Summary:
- This position has responsibility lead multi workstream integration as well as specific workstreams to operationalize the Processes and services, ensuring that the project delivers supply chain performance and processes to meet business requirements for our new Manufacturing site.
- The PMO (Project Management Office) function accelerates the delivery of project deliverables by driving program and project management excellence through insight-based decision-making. The PMO Manager will report to the PMO Director and support strategic project execution within Program.
- The PMO Manager, Strategic Projects has the following key areas of responsibility to deliver program outcomes:
- Ensure adherence to project management best practices
- Drive decision making
- Support program governance
- Optimizes the program operating environment
- Manage Project controller/schedulers for process and services subprogram
- Maintain overall Program Management Plan
Responsibilities:
- Co-Lead the project workstreams to meet or exceed the team goals by providing global cross-functional operational leadership in a matrix organization. This includes optimizing plans through constructive challenge and continuous dialog with the different functions to ensure all activities are aligned with team goals and objectives.
- With support, drive insight generation, interpretation, and implementation to facilitate decision making and strategy refinement
- Holds the cross-functional team accountable to develop and deliver the governance-approved project execution plan within budget, timelines, and scope
- With support, navigate the team through the complexities of project execution to obtain strategy approval and secure necessary resources with key stakeholders and supply chain leadership team.
- Deploy, manage and maintain updated core project management methodologies, tools, and frameworks to operationalize the strategy
- Ensure the right team capabilities, working styles, resiliency, and ability to deliver under pressure with support
- Foster team confidence and safeguard team performance through coaching and periodic reviews of team health with the project director
- Execute visualization of the project management plan, ensuring clear knowledge management including:
- Data/document repository
- Team member list/contacts
- Timeline maintenance
- Dashboard/metric updates
- Budget updates
- Risk registers
- Project action logs
- Program/ workstream and project Governance
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, or business management is required.
- English fluent written and speaking is required. Level Advanced
- A minimum of 5 years of Program Management leadership experience on large complex business transformation programs
- Develop and deliver program presentations for senior-level MD stakeholders to advise on historical and future program status.
- Exhibits excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, with proven ability to influence/collaborate to get to desired result.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent communication, and presentation skills.
- Exhibits strong communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms.
- A Demonstrated ability to lead a cross-functional teams is required.
- Cross-functional experience is required.
- Strong knowledge of Medical Devices Manufacturing in Costa Rica environment.
- Demonstrated hands-on project management/delivery experience.
- Experience on setting and leading workshops
- People management and development experience.
- Strong customer focus (internal & external), including development and management of stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile Methodology preferred.
- Certification in areas of expertise (e.g., PMP, APICS, Lean/Six Sigma /Process Excellence, etc. preferred
Costa Rica: PMO Manager – Strategic Projects (235916)