Senior Director R&d Project Management Office

**Job Summary**: Senior Director PMO
- Establish a PMO that drives project management as a core discipline. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve project management processes, tools & templates (Scope management, Schedule management, Project Baselining, Project Change management, Risk management, Status reporting). Ensure that new standards are being adopted, incorporated in design processes, and reflected in products’ technical files.
- Establish and maintain KPIs to provide maximum transparency of project status from a progress and quality perspective.
- Provide Governance and Project Prioritization in close alignment with Head of NPI.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- Establish a PMO that drives project management as a core discipline. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve project management processes, tools & templates (Scope management, Schedule management, Project Baselining, Project Change management, Risk management, Status reporting). Ensure that new standards are being adopted, incorporated in design processes, and reflected in products’ technical files.
- Establish and maintain KPIs to provide maximum transparency of project status from a progress and quality perspective.
- Provide Governance and Project Prioritization in close alignment with Head of NPI.
- Manage and mentor project managers to ensure proper project planning and on-time, on-budget, on-quality project execution. Work with project teams on mitigations if any of the objectives are at risk.
- Establish Project Status Reporting structure. Organize and lead report out at weekly senior management updates and phase gates. Ensure compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 standards.
- Ensure a consistent and stringent execution of phase gate reviews.
- Manage Technical Writing group, lead IP management, and manage Product Engineering, including MDR and VAVE.

**Management tasks**
- Technical and disciplinary management of subordinate employees
- Assignment, development and scheduling of employees according to requirements and skills
- Conducting regular appraisal interviews and set personal objectives
- Professional and personal development of employees
- Hiring of new employees

**General tasks**
- Implementation of the company and department strategy
- Coordination with other departments on processes, interfaces and cross-sectional tasks
- Participation in the annual budget and investment planning
- Strict adherence to quality, work safety and environmental regulations and following instructions by quality/
- environmental management as well as work safety management

**Required Experience, Education, Skills and Competencies**
- Bachelor Degree in business or technical field, ideally Medical Device Technology or similar, MBA preferred
- Project Management certification (PMI or similar).
- Minimum of 10 years project management experience, including management of complex, large size technology projects. Experience preferably in medical device industry.
- With 5+ years leadership experience, with established management and organizational style; including experience in managing through managers.
- People manager - managing and developing team members into future leaders and top professionals.
- Minimum of 3 years managing a PMO with multiple large and small sized projects.
- Ability to establish and cultivate project management processes and tools in a regulated environment using agile methodologies.
- Ability to establish and drive data driven project management culture.
- Experience in multi-site, multi-project environment.
- Track record of successful project execution and demonstrated experience in project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
- Fluent in English and German language skills (GER-C1)*

Art der Stelle: Vollzeit, Festanstellung

Arbeitszeiten:

- Gleitzeit
- Montag bis Freitag

Leistungen:

- Gleitzeit

Arbeitsort: Vor Ort