
Project Manager
- Maple Grove, MN
- $99,100 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead cross-functional teams across business units and manufacturing sites, managing projects of varying scope, including schedule, costs, and resources.
- Develop and implement comprehensive project plans, monitoring progress against key business objectives and goals.
- Provide input to functional managers on team and team member performance, while maintaining strong relationships with functional heads.
- Manage project initiation, planning, and execution, fostering team ownership and commitment.
- Serve as the liaison between the team, functional leaders, and divisional leadership, ensuring effective communication and resolution of cross-functional issues.
- Communication – Communicates effectively with all levels of the organization. Listens actively and encourages the open exchange of ideas and opinions.
- Influence – Influences and motivates others over whom they have no direct control or authority. Wins support through strategic relationships and persuasive communications.
- Collaboration – Models and promotes collaboration and works effectively with others across the project team, organization and stakeholders to achieve goals.
- Team Leadership – Builds trust and generates enthusiastic support from team members, fellow peers, senior management and delivers high impact leadership results.
- Planning – Creates a comprehensive and realistic project plan with prioritized initiatives that align with project goals and builds on previous lessons learned.
- Execution – Drives results by acting with speed and agility and by assigning clear authority and accountability, integrating and aligning efforts across units and functions, and monitoring progress against objectives.
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Engineering, Sciences, or another field providing a solid foundation in technical and analytical skills.
- 4+ years of relevant experience.
- Cross-functional project team leadership experience.
- Must be willing and able to travel, sometimes internationally, ~10% of the time.
- Works under minimal supervision.
- Prior medical device and/or regulated industry experience
- The capability to easily navigate, manage and articulate core functional processes
- Leads courageously by confronting problems directly; moves forward optimistically under conditions of uncertainty
- Stays current on important trends that impact the business, places customers at the center of project execution
- Manages the triple constraint; understands the significance, impact and aggressively manages project risks