PD Project Management Specialist (12 month contract // Minneapolis, MN):

Alternate Title: Program Analyst/Business Analyst

Candidate must be available on a hybrid work schedule - must be onsite 2 days/week.

Top Skills:

1. Effective Schedule Development
2. Microsoft Project
3. Experience with Analytical Tools, such as PowerBI or Tableau

Duties:

• Leverages cross functional teams to evaluate, develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products, processes, and therapies.
• Coordinates the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project teams and functional management.
• Coordinates the development and implementation process of products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitors the project(s) from initiation through delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client- satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers and stakeholders.
• Gathers project planning requirements, works on requirements planning, requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of project’s key stakeholders.
• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.
• Deliver predictable schedules involving R&D systems or initiatives related to new technologies or therapies – from design to implementation - while adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills.
• Supports or leads enhancements of systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Requires Bachelor’s Degree
• Candidate should have ~4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree/PMP with 2 years of experience

Nice to Haves

• 1 years of project management experience
• 2 years in medical device product development, or other highly regulated environment
• Experience working with Office Timeline Pro
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified
• Demonstrated skill set in project leadership practices including ability to balance risk, effectively influence diverse teams, and ownership of responsibility for outcomes
• Demonstrated downward, lateral, and upward communication skills
• Demonstrated balance of detailed tactical thought processes applied to high-level strategy