Associate Director, Project/Program Management - Andover, United States - embecta

Description

embecta is one of the largest pure-play diabetes care companies in the world, leveraging its nearly 100-year legacy in insulin delivery to empower people with diabetes to live their best life through innovative solutions, partnerships and the passion of approximately 2,000 employees around the globe. For more information, visit or follow our social channels on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Responsibilities:

• Defines the risks of the program (i.e. specs, costs, planning) and develops scenarios to overcome these risks.
• Directs employees and gives them operational guidance
• Implementation and realization according to project plans (specification, quality, time, money, information) and organization.
• Reports on the progress of the program with an agreed frequency on quality, status, time, and costs to senior management and to program members.
• Ensures that there is an effective transfer and archiving of the program results and the associated knowledge.
• Achieve highly predicable integration project schedules
• Reports on employees' performance to the hierarchical superior of the employees for the purpose of appraisal.
• Drive a project management transformation program into all areas of the organization.
• Challenge others to question traditional ways of working, overcome barriers to change and to adapt quickly to new, changing environments.
• Maintains a climate of trust, openness, honesty and objectivity and role models a can-do mentality.
• Demonstrated experience in holding stakeholders accountable for their commitments to the project.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering Discipline
• 10+ years of direct project and program management experience, schedule management (including tools, such as MS Project, Celoxis, , Azure DevOps or equivalent) in a regulated Design Control environment
• Experience with managing Class II or III device projects

embecta is an Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.

• Demonstrated experience in managing/improving software and hardware development performance.
• Experience in leading developing/design transfer/commercialize of complex electro-mechanical devices and mobile software solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional team meetings, management updates and internal development review meetings.

Preferred Requirements:

• Master's degree
• PMP and/or Agile Scrum Master certification