Project Manager R & D Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Project Manager R & D to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Keeps up to date on overall activities of the team, monitors progress, identifies critical path and takes corrective actions;
- Recognises team efforts and keeps the team morale up;
- Drives identification of project scope, coordinates with stakeholders to identify goals, time frame, resources and budget;
- Manages projects of moderate to high complexity, spanning multiple engineering disciplines;
- Conducts regular meetings with project teams / stakeholders as required;
- Flexible to overlap couple of hours with US timezone;
- Accountable for on-time execution as well as overall success of projects;
- Open to expresses thoughts and ideas to individuals and executives; articulates clearly and checks for understanding;
- Develops, tracks, maintains and manages project planning, budget and timeline;
- Responsible for identifying dependencies, mitigates risk and removes project impediments;
- Flexible to dedicate whatever time is necessary to learn business processes and product applications;
- Manages multiple projects / assignments in parallel;
- Effectively negotiates and collaborates with cross functional teams and leaders;
- Responsible for driving and taking informed decisions related to critical project activities;
- Actively support the team to mitigate impediments and achieve sprint / release goals.
Requirements:
- Excellent facilitation, oral and written communication skills;
- Excellent knowledge of SDLC / Software Engineering practices, basic principles, concepts etc;
- Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, track, facilitate and track projects using applicable tools;
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills;
- A self- starter who can work well independently with minimal supervision;
- Can do attitude, with a proven record of delivering project outcomes with good stakeholder feedback;
- Strong stakeholder management, relationship building and influencing skills;
- Knowledge of medical device and/or pharmecutical industry in terms of process, organization, product and complex requirements;
- Working experience with other Agile methodologies Kanban, LEAN, PP;
- Applied knowledge of Microsoft office applications;
- Ability to coordinate multiple assignments in parallel;
- Effective presentation skills;
- 8-10 years of total experience in engineering discipline;
- PMP training or knowledge;
- Proficiency working with complex systems and matrixed organizations.