Position Title: Project Manager III 
Work Location: North Chicago IL 60064
Assignment Duration: 12 months
Work Arrangement: Fully Onsite

What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:

1.Profficient in MS Project: Demonstrated expertise in using Microsoft Project for project planning, scheduling, resource management, and tracking project progress to ensure timely delivery of project milestones
2. Good communication skills: Excels in verbal and written communication, ensuring clear, consistent, and effective exchange of information with all stakeholders, including team members, leadership, and external partners
3. Conflict Management: Able to identify, address, and resolve conflicts within teams or among stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment while maintaining focus on project goals
4. Capable of Leading Cross-Functional Teams: Proven ability to lead and motivate diverse teams across departments, facilitating cooperation and alignment toward shared objectives and successful project execution
5. Knowledge of Design Controls for Device and Combination Products: Comprehensive understanding of regulatory requirements and design control processes applicable to medical devices and combination products, ensuring compliance and quality throughout the product development lifecycle


Enable Commercialization of NPI’s, Portfolio Management of On Market Support projects and provides Project Management expertise across the CAD Organization. Develop, implement and lead NPI program from R&D handover to final launch and commercialization. Lead strategic product support programs in order to ensure robustness of supply, quality products, and appropriate levels of customer service, while minimizing costs and maximizing benefits to . Keep upper management informed as to the status of projects, integrate change as applicable and recommend value-added alternatives. Drive integration of cross-functional organizations to deliver an integrated technical solution.
• To manage the execution of project(s) across the PDS&T organization, Franchise Organizations, and Third-Party Suppliers.
• Coordinate global project teams to perform NPI program management, technical transfers of products, product maintenance and global launches of new combination device and device programs.
• To carry out and implement process improvement initiatives.
• Manage execution of tasks and co-ordination of projects in both remote and office-based settings.
• Open to lead activities across different time zones and be flexible to be available, as appropriate to align with other time zones.

• Develop realistic cross functional project implementation plans with input from other functions, e.g., R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Commercial.
• Utilize the relevant PM tools for project planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Maintain project budgets and timelines.
• Set project milestones and report progress accordingly. Consider alternative approaches and take corrective action as needed to ensure project milestones are achieved.
• Provide project management support for and guide the efforts of third-party organizations (vendors, suppliers, contractors, etc.) to enable achievement of shared milestones.
• Fulfil management role in terms of organizing project teams, facilitating communication between resources, guiding technical, financial, business and personnel conflict resolution and monitoring budget administration.
• Identify and implement opportunities that will improve ability to implement and deliver quality products in a cost effective, compliant, and timely manner.
• Support the development of the Program Management process for the PDS&T organisation.

The Employee will perform duties appropriate to this position as instructed by the Company. He / she will be required to be flexible and to undertake any such additional or alternative duties as the Company shall reasonably assign to the Employee from time to time. The Company also has the right to ask the employee to move to another work location without seeing consent at the time of the transfer.

EHS Responsibilities:
• Comply with the EHS policy and procedures and demonstrate EHS best practices in all work activities.
• Continually be conscious of your own safety and that of others, always complying with safety notices and barriers.
• Report any EHS incidents and/or Near Misses (unsafe acts and conditions) immediately to your supervisor and always raise the event in eAchieve;
• Support a culture of EHS excellence by recognizing and submitting opportunities for EHS improvement on eAchieve;
• Attend all required EHS training and medical surveillance programs.
• Wear PPE as required.
Education/
Other • Degree in Engineering / Science or related discipline.
• Advanced business degree is benefit.
• PMI certification is highly desirable.
• Green Belt or Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma is desirable
Job Skills/ Experience Required Technical/Business Knowledge -Job Skills
• 10+ years of diversified business experience, including operations support/quality at plant level for medical products and/or medical devices, supply chain, validations, capital and expense management, and commercial product launches.
• Knowledge of good R&D practices and design control.
• Knowledge of medical device, pharmaceutical industry (or Combination products) is required.
• 5+ years of medical device and pharma experience is required.
• High level of competence with all Microsoft packages including Microsoft Project.

The successful candidate should possess the following characteristics:
• Broad, diverse, cross-functional, and cross-divisional experience.
• Able to think strategically and creatively.
• Able to establish and maintain credibility as a leader.
• Ability to comprehend complicated global product movement plans and logistics.
• Ability to drive change throughout the company; results oriented.
• Familiar with overseas operations and cultures.
• Delivers results with a minimum amount of direction and supervision.
• Communicates results, actions, decisions, concerns in a timely manner.
• Decisive; moves quickly to core issues while avoiding tangents and/or excessive detail.
• Acts with sense of urgency.
• Inspires others to work hard.
• Team player and team builder.
• Effectively builds consensus.
• Ability to deal effectively with all levels of personnel.
• Manages change positively.

Cognitive Skills
• Required to undertake specific investigations, and business process monitoring with the view to improve efficiency and performance e.g. reducing complexity and maximizing output and benefit.
• It may be necessary to re-design elements or entire business processes to adapt to changing business conditions in order to improve efficiency and remove waste.

Influence/Leadership
• Considerable and continual care and attention needed to avoid non value added activities within a program or associated business process.
• Continual attention needed to ensure Leadership are appropriately informed of program or project progress using the recognized escalation processes and governance models.
• Be a leader of the team and ensure the team have what they need to be successful.

Accountability / Scope:
• Establish timetables, set goals/priorities, develop performance measurements, and assign/prioritize resources.
• Measure progress and results accurately and completely.
• Generate ideas for improvement which are consistent with the organization’s mission and strategy.
• Achieve timelines and capital/expense commitments. 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 86.00/hr.