Global Project Manager (Interventional Urology)

Coloplast has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Interventional Urology team.

You will be responsible for establishing and leading world class functional project teams, including members across the Coloplast organization and vendors and partners for a large range of project types. This position will develop detailed project plans to ensure tasks are completed in a timely manner and the project is delivered on schedule and in alignment with the Coloplast quality system.

Major Areas of Accountability

• Lead projects from a large range of areas within the organization which include but are not limited to:
  • New product development
  • Product extensions
  • Cost saving projects
  • Process improvement projects
  • Process validation projects
  • Quality and regulatory projects
  • Other
• Ensure project progress according to project plan, scope and budget – challenge the time line and resource allocation in order to secure timely deliverables.
• Lead development projects through all phased gates and stages of product development
• Manage and communicate with stakeholders – ensure that the project is aligned with business goals.
• Identify/negotiate resources and needs for project teams, form development project team at project initiation
• Identify, mitigate and communicate project risks, and escalate issues to stakeholders and management in a timely fashion.
• Deal with new initiatives and tasks, major deviations and changed conditions; propose solutions to the relevant decision makers
• Prepare and present project status for Interventional Urology or other management boards as appropriate including project review meetings
• Ensure effective design transfer to the line organization
• Resolve project team conflicts, resource needs and requests
• Be able to organize projects as per waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies
• Conforms with Coloplast Q/EHS Policy
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of overall related experience
• Previous project management experience in medical device industry
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple cross-functional projects
• Demonstrate strong leadership, team skills, and communication skills and work within multiple levels of the organization.
• Strong understanding of project and product risk management.
• Business understanding and knowledge within the entire product lifecycle
• Knowledge within the medical device industry including quality requirements and regulatory requirements
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Able presenter in corporate context
• Ability to improve situations with proactive problem solving skills and solution oriented negotiation skills
• Experience in leading teams with highly skilled employees
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple cross-functional projects
• Ability to train, teach and lead others
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Project management as per PMI.org is a plus
• Understanding of Lean project management culture
• PMP Certification or Certified Scrum Master is a plus
• Constant improvement mindset
• Excellent overview and analytical capabilities
• Excellent communicator across organizational levels, functions, and companies