Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for leading and driving projects and matrixed cross-functional teams for new product development and sustaining engineering projects to drive the scoping, planning, prioritization, resource management, and execution of established design controls process across THINK Surgical’s product portfolio spanning orthopedic robotic surgical systems, tools and accessories. This position is instrumental in delivering business results supporting new product development, commercial and manufacturing goals under a medical device quality management system and providing tactical leadership, guidance, and support to the R&D organization.

This position is based in THINK’s corporate office.

• Be accountable for project/program management planning and execution of assigned projects.
• Collaborate with technical and business/commercial leaders to establish early phase project charters, scope and project plans in alignment with product portfolio roadmaps and organizational goals and priorities. Incorporate business and commercial strategy, technical capabilities, budget and resources in early phase project assessments.
• In planning projects,
• Collaborate with cross-functional core teams to develop integrated project plans that identify work breakdown structures, durations, dependencies, resource assignments within budgetary guidelines.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business/strategic needs and apply knowledge to balance tradeoffs in planning and managing project risks.
• Set project goals and milestones to drive meaningful progress while balancing project risk.
• In executing projects,
• Establish and maintain good professional working relationships with internal and external project and organizational interfaces, e.g. coworkers, management, suppliers, consultants, and development partners.
• Coordinate activities between different functional teams to ensure efficient project execution.
• Present and report project status regularly at program and product business reviews to management stakeholders.
• Actively manage and work collaboratively across functions to deliver project milestones, goals and associated KPIs according to THINK Surgical’s established quality management system and applicable medical device regulations and standards.
• Oversee the procedural compliance aspects of the product development lifecycle by interfacing with quality and regulatory personnel.
• Lead and facilitate core team meetings, fostering an environment for effective lines of communication and engagement on project and technical risk management, clearing roadblocks and guiding teams towards aligned decisions and strategies.
• Work with relevant team members and functions, drive the completion of business and design history file deliverables, design, technical and project reviews and phase closure reviews.
• For sustaining engineering projects,
• Leverage engineering/technical expertise in electrical/mechanical, hardware/firmware/software to gather impact of design updates/changes to requirements, determine system, subsystem and component-level testing and verification/validation strategies, establish project plans and methods of tracking and reporting status of project activities, deliverables, project risks and risk mitigation proposals.
• Collaborate and coordinate with engineering disciplines, manufacturing/supply chain, quality, and regulatory functions and external suppliers and partners to develop solutions and overall strategies that address commercial, product quality/reliability and manufacturing/supply chain goals.
• Ensure project management activities are assessed for process improvements and optimized across the Sustaining Engineering and Program Management organizations to standardize approach and drive efficiency.
• Apply knowledge and experience in project management best practices, PMO frameworks, tools and templates enabling teams to achieve consistency and reliability in project execution.

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• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field e.g. engineering, life sciences, computer science and 5-8 years of industry…