| Industry: | Engineering & Design |
| Job Type: | Full Time |
| State: | New York |
| City: | Tarrytown |
| Job Description: |
Company Description Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. offers a broad portfolio of performance-driven diagnostic solutions that provide more effective and efficient ways to anticipate, diagnose, monitor and treat disease. Our products and services offer the right balance of science, technology and practicality across the healthcare continuum to provide medical professionals with the vital information they need to deliver better, more personalized healthcare to patients around the globe. Visit us at www.siemens.com/diagnostics. Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.
Job Description The Project Manager is responsible for planning, scheduling, tracking, coordinating, and monitoring in vitro diagnostic product development in order to accelerate time to market. This involves facilitating communications between multi-functional team members and senior management to ensure timelines and goals are met. As a Core Team Leader for one or more projects, responsibilities include: - Motivating and leading a cross-functional, usually multi-site product development team. This may include members of the project team who are part of another company or companies where contractual as well as personnel management must be effectively managed to insure project success. - Assuring that the project is tracked and all product and project deliverables (quality, performance, cost, schedule, and revenue) are met within their planned tolerances and as close to target as possible. - Identifying needed decisions and driving decision making process - Managing the scope, schedule, and budget of the project - Scheduling and leading meetings to coordinate interdepartmental project activities required to resolve project issues. - Managing and planning submissions to regulatory agencies. - Assisting in Core Team Member professional development - Interfacing with Functional Managers as needed for resource management and performance reviews. - Managing project communications to all stakeholder (project teams, functional managers, internal and external customers, and senior management), including meeting minutes, monthly updates, communications meetings, and phase reviews Facilitate the exchange of information between departments on a day-to-day basis and maintains liaison with all members of the project team between project team meetings. Responsible for continuous improvement of the product development process to streamline time to market Skills: Advanced scientific, technology and/or business degrees are highly desirable and can substitute for some required experience. Requires basic skills in the product development process and a general business understanding, preferably in the medical device industry Project Management expertise: - Five (5-8+) years of industry experience, which should include experience managing complex projects - Strong analytical skills to assess situations and drive decision making - Ability to coordinate across disciplines and integrate all aspects of business as they impact development projects including negotiation of scope, roles and responsibilities, specifications, timelines, and resources up, across, and down organization - Experience in producing written reports (i.e. published papers, company reports, etc.) - Demonstrated effective written and oral communications skills - Familiarity with key software and decision making tools - Ability to function in a changing, high-impact position, with deadline and resource constraints - Capacity to achieve outcomes based on ability to facilitate and negotiate desired results Education Discipline: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Science disciplines |
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| Post Date: | 02/08/2010 |
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