Project Manager - Medical Device Facility Relocation

A leading Medical Device company in Minnesota is in immediate need of a Project Manager Consultant to work with them for 12 months. This is a hybrid position with minimum 3 days/week in the office. The consultant must be able to travel between and work onsite at the Minnetonka and Maple Grove locations.

About the role:

• This Project Manager will lead a facility relocation project, supporting Peripheral Interventions (PI), Interventional Cardiology Therapies (ICTx) and Urology (Uro) divisions, and more specifically, play an integral role to meet strategic objectives and milestones for transitioning to a new facility.
• Primary responsibilities include ensuring the Quality Management System is effectively implemented for the site by leading the project team and supporting workstreams across functions, business units and sites. This includes successfully transitioning resources, labs and quality systems to the new facility while working with both internal and external stakeholders on project activities through completion.
• Additional areas of support include coordination with construction and facility leads for transition planning, stakeholder management, communication and change management.

Key Skills / Competencies

• Communication – Communicates effectively with all levels of the organization. Listens actively and encourages the open exchange of ideas and opinions.
• Influence – Influences and motivates others over whom they have no direct control or authority. Wins support through strategic relationships and persuasive communications.
• Collaboration – Models and promotes collaboration and works effectively with others across the project team, organization and stakeholders to achieve goals.
• Team Leadership – Builds trust and generates enthusiastic support from team members, fellow peers, senior management and delivers high impact leadership results.
• Planning – Creates a comprehensive and realistic project plan with prioritized initiatives that align with project goals and builds on previous lessons learned.
• Execution – Drives results by acting with speed and agility and by assigning clear authority and accountability, integrating and aligning efforts across units and functions, and monitoring progress against objectives.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead cross-functional teams across business units and sites. Manage multiple workstreams to support the transition, including schedule, scope, costs and resources.
• Develop and implement overall project plans, including cost, schedule, risk, performance and monitor progress against business key objectives and goals.
• People Management: Manages cross-functional teams; leads teams and helps diverse and dispersed project team members to execute towards overall project goal(s); provides input to functional managers on team and team member performance; develops and maintains strong relationships with key functional stakeholders.
• Project/Program Management: Manages key initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing processes; develops and implements project plan; builds team ownership and commitment to project plan; mentors and/or coaches other workstream leads; manages project risks.
• Quality / Process / Regulatory Management: Leads team to complete activities to ensure appropriate quality systems are setup and implemented for use to meet current policies, procedures, standards and regulatory requirements for effective management of the overall quality system; identifies and implements quality, process and regulatory needs for facility transition.
• Communications and Reviews: Responsible for team and cross-functional communications; liaison between the team and governing bodies within the overall program as well as business leadership meetings; responsible for project meeting minutes, issues log, metrics, and other key communications. Communicates and influences resolution of cross-functional issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Engineering or Project Management.
• 4 years of relevant experience.
• Cross-functional project team leadership experience.
• Must be willing and able to travel between Maple Grove (2) and Minnetonka facilities.
• Hybrid work mode, minimum 3 days a week in the office, with transition to on-site during peak of facility transition.
• Works under minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior medical device and/or regulated industry experience.
• Quality Systems and Regulatory experience.
• The capability to easily navigate, manage and articulate core functional processes.
• Stays current on important trends that impact the business; places customers at the center of project execution.
• Manages the triple constraint; understands the significance, impact and aggressively manages project risks.