Job Title: Project Manager II
Job Location:  Rochester, NY
Job Duration: 12 months

PART TIME: 20 HOURS PER WEEK. THE WORKER WILL NEED TO WORK ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. THESE ARE CRUCIAL DAYS. THE 3RD DAY IS FLEXIBLE BUT IF THE TEAM NEEDS THE CANDIDATE ON A CERTAIN DAY THE CANDIDATE MUST BE FLEXIBLE.

Summary:

• The Project Manager is a strategic business partner responsible for the oversight and management of end-to-end activities on complex medical diagnostic equipment, assays and business improvement projects with an emphasis on driving quality execution.
• Anticipates, identifies and addresses critical inter-dependencies and delivers insights through issue identification, resolution and contingency planning, ultimately guiding teams towards milestone achievement.
• A Project Manager must have strong critical thinking and decision-making skills and the ability to influence without authority, infusing the project teams with a sense of urgency, ownership and accountability and culture of high performance.

Responsibilities

• Delivers fundamental project management tools and composes project plans including schedule, budget and product features, incorporating input across multiple functions and outside partners. Outlines and tracks dependencies between functional areas.
• Proactively influences timely decisions and takes actions reflective of business objectives on delivery and alternative courses of action to ensure project/product are on time, on specification, and on budget.
• Runs regularly scheduled team meetings, providing transparency around project progress (schedule, budget, resources and scope). Sets agenda and documents meeting outcomes.
• Identifies key issues and potential challenges and proactively facilitates scenario planning to identify the best choice among alternatives.
• Recognizes conflict and applies strategies to overcome it.
• Identifies and drives for resolution on issues related to project plan (schedule, budget, resources and scope), facilitating discussions between stakeholders. Escalates issues when appropriate.
• Drives the team from concept through completion using defined policies and procedures.
• Assures all deliverables are completed and documented properly in each phase. Ability to keep project moving toward successful completion leveraging aggressive schedules and overcoming unanticipated developments.
• Provides information regarding tasks, plans, schedule, and strategies to stakeholders partnering to capture and document requirements and specifications.
• Proactively follows-up with team members to ensure project deliverables and interim milestones are met.
• Builds relationships and effectively communicates status and opportunities for improvement throughout the team and across multiple levels of the business.
• Provides candid and constructive feedback to functional leaders relative to individual performance.
• Motivates the team to exceed expectations. Ability to encourage and enable people to work together as a team to accomplish the project
• Promotes cross team knowledge transfer of lessons learned.
• Delivers informative, well-organized presentations on project status and selected project topics.
• Promotes and implements process improvements and project management best practice methodologies and tools.
• Expected to manage multiple moderately complex projects simultaneously Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members.
• Creates a positive environment; drives sense of urgency and motivates the team.
• Perform other work-related duties as assigned

Quals--

• ​Bachelor's degree required
• 3+ years of project management including schedule development required or equivalent project experience
• 5+ years of experience working in R&D or manufacturing environment.
• Diagnostics or medical device industry preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is strongly preferred
• Familiar with Medical Regulatory practices a strong plus.
• High-level understanding of new product development process with ability to adapt project management processes to product life cycle.
• Demonstrated management role of complex cross functional projects.
• Expertise using Microsoft Project or equivalent project management software required including best practices for creating schedules, updating schedules, and critical path analysis of highly complex schedules.
• Familiarity with latest project management methodology (e.g. Agile) is preferred
• Strong interpersonal, communication (written and oral) and presentation skills required.
• Ability to take calculated risks and demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross functional team environment required
• Ability to influence and present information to all levels of the organization including senior management required
• Able to identify problems and lead proactive problem-solving efforts to achieve project goals.

Working Relationships:
Internal: Subject Matter Experts, Functional Leaders, Strategic Business Unit Leadership, Executive
Leadership
External: Technical, Operational and Project Management Contract partners, Regulatory Agencies,
Funding Agencies