What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Program Manager position at Diality?
Company & Job Overview
Diality Inc, a privately held medical device company located in Irvine, CA is committed to improving the quality of life for patients with kidney disease. We are developing a smart, flexible, portable hemodialysis machine that will enable patients to self-treat at home or wherever they travel. The extremely versatile hemodialysis solution will allow more patients to benefit from their true dialysis prescription at home or in a variety of care settings, including nursing homes, hospitals, and dialysis centers, without the need for pre-mixed dialysate bags or external water-treatment systems.
We are currently seeking a Senior Program Manager who will be responsible for the coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of dialysis machine development projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, quality, commitments, and goals.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and implementation of projects by working closely with the project sponsor and cross functional teams.
- Hold functional team members accountable to maintaining milestones and deliverable commitments.
- Facilitate and control the definition of project plan, project scope, project schedule, project budget, milestones goals and deliverables.
- Define project tasks and resource requirements.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, operations, quality, regulatory, clinical, and commercial functions.
- Monitor and report project staff, budget, and resources allocation.
- Plan and schedule project timelines
- Track project deliverables using appropriate tools and metrics.
- Provide leadership, direction, and support to project team.
- Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to management
- Present reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
- Document, implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
- Provides solutions to various issues in creative and effective ways.
- Directs the application of existing principles and guides development of new policies and ideas within the function.
- Understands and works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- Exhibits advanced wide-ranging experience, using in-depth professional knowledge, acumen, concepts, and company objectives to develop, resolve complex models and procedures.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science related field
- Minimum 8 years’ of related experience or 6 years and a Master’s degree
- 5 years of program management experience in the life sciences industry with specific experience in medical device highly desired.
- Proficient at using project management tools such as MS Project
- Proficient at using computer-based software for managing Agile (Scrum) projects (Jira or similar)
- Ability to operate autonomously while running one to multiple new product development projects
- Proven experience taking a project through scoping and requirements identification through production release.
- Proven experience in stakeholder management and setting expectations.
- Proven experience managing complex technical projects in a medical device space
- Familiarity with hybrid Scrum/Waterfall Project Execution
- Experience in engaging cross functional leadership in engineering, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, finance, commercial.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate ideas and concepts into practical solutions.
- Highly organized/detail oriented, excellent follow through and follow up skills, results, and delivery oriented.
- Able to multi-task a variety of duties and work requests
- Self-motivated and works well under pressure with changing priorities and a workload.
- Team player with very good collaboration skills, fostering knowledge sharing with team members.
- Demonstrated positive interpersonal skills with the flexibility and adaptability to relate to and collaborate with people at all levels of organization and work well with a diverse employee group.
- Positive attitude and desire to succeed.
- PMP and/or CSM preferred
Physical Demands
Sustained periods of time standing and sitting in a laboratory
Sitting at a desk utilizing a computer
Some lifting of
Working Environment
- Typical office areas with offices, cubicles and conference rooms.
Travel
- Willingness to travel domestically as needed (up to 10%) primarily to visit vendors and attendance at select conferences.
Salary : $145,000 - $165,000