Project Manager, Digital Innovation

Arthrex is a global medical device company focused on orthopedic product development and medical education. The Project Manager will oversee digital innovation projects, including timelines, budgets, resources, scope, risks, and cross-functional coordination while ensuring compliance with design control procedures and quality systems.

Responsibilities:

• Manages subsidiary-based and global projects/programs within the scope of the new product development
• Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and business plans, conferring with senior management and key stakeholders
• Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculates time requirements, identifying and sequencing project elements and discreet tasks
• Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving risks or obstacles
• Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, requesting and allocating resources as necessary
• Ensure design history file facilitation for assigned projects, adhering to Arthrex design control procedures
• Ensure project progresses within the boundaries of the approved scope. Manage the scope of the project and guarantee scope changes are properly documented and implemented
• Identify opportunities for improvement within the Project Management Governance and Design Control Process to improve speed to market
• Monitor resource capacity within the New Product Development groups and cross-functional resources and communicate constraints or needs to senior management
• Help facilitate, with interdepartmental managers, the availability, assignment, and accountability of downstream resources and technology
• Help facilitate project, program and portfolio status to management and key stakeholders with applicable metrics and project constraints

Requirements:

• Ability to effectively communicate project planning requirements, including task elucidation, duration, and resource requirements
• Strong strategic thinker, excellent collaboration and communication skills, careful attention to detail
• Ability to balance business and technical risks while remaining compliant with internal systems
• Awareness of full life cycle development of medical devices, which includes initiation, design, development, execution, and sustaining
• Working knowledge of medical device regulations and associated quality systems, particularly design controls and risk management
• Strong communication skills and accountability to project deliverable timing and budgets required
• Ability to confidently lead complex, cross functional teams independently
• Demonstrable bias for action
• Strong desire and proven ability to learn quickly
• Continuously seeking ways to improve complex systems of people and process, while eliminating waste
• BS Engineering required
• Minimum of 2 years of project management experience
• Manufacturing process knowledge preferred
• Awareness orthopedic surgery principles, theories, and products preferred
• Knowledgeable of FDA and ISO guidelines for the development of medical devices preferred
• Biomedical, Electrical, or Mechanical preferred