Job#: 1309048

Job Description:

Position Summary:

This exciting opportunity & role involves overall responsibility for the Innovation & Portfolio Management within the Joints Engineering function, for the Warsaw & Raynham Sites. This role will involve leading the deployment, integration and management of the Innovation Management processes, supporting the Business planning strategies & prioritization, facilitating Business performance status – governance led and leading standardization across the Joints Engineering portfolio.

Key Responsibilities (N/A for pre-defined)

• Development of Innovation Management Systems for use across the DePuy Synthes Cluster, with the ability to support, manage E2E, Facilitate, but not limited to, the following:
  • Project / Portfolio Management
  • Project / Portfolio Metrics
  • Value Capture Plan Management
  • Innovation Excellence
  • Capital/Expense Management
  • Resource Management

• Key partner to local leadership team in prescribing optimal return from project activity.
• Governance of the end-to-end innovation lifecycle portfolio – ideas, feasibility, implementation.
• Ensuring the sites long-term project pipeline is secured through active feasibility projects that are aligned to overall business strategy and technology roadmaps.
• Supports Planisware adoption for managing project and portfolio data.
• Provides a management tracking and reporting system, enabling data mining and report generation.
• Owner of reporting on defined engineering metrics - project spend, resource loading, savings pipeline.
• Site level implementation project prioritization, risk assessment and resource management.
• Site deployment and management of CI2 tools, templates, and methodology.
• Ensure consistent sites adoption of Planisware for management of project and portfolio data.
• Provides support for project planning, development, and implementation.
• Supports Project/Portfolio Leaders in constructing project business cases.
• Training, coaching and mentoring fellow employees in areas pertaining to the job responsibilities.
• Works and communicates well with others in a team environment
• Strong focus on alignment across Innovation Management systems and processes, providing automated solutions where feasible
• Participates in and understands all compliance related activities pertaining to the role

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Strong Project & Portfolio Management Skills.
• Strong understanding of data analytics.
• Problem solving skills – To assist in maintaining project progress and in resolving design issues.
• Decision Making – Required to make decisions on technical and management issues.
• Excellent Planning & Organizing Skills
• Ability to effectively manage Cross-functional, Virtual and Global teams.
• Superior change management skills including the understanding of both individual change and organizational change.
• Excellent listening and analytical skills, facilitation skills, organized, and able to lead people and help them through the challenges of change within a complex environment.
• Outstanding presence and communication skills, able to inspire trust and quickly build credibility. Must have strong collaboration and influencing skills
• Excellent intellect, strategic and tactical thinking ability, complemented by a “hands-on” operational and business planning orientation.
• Accountability, with a strong desire to commit, be held accountable and be rewarded for delivering results.
• Moral and personal integrity and the values that inspire trust in the organization.
• Strong relationship development, conflict resolution, and team building instincts.
• Makes the customer central to all thinking.

Experience/Knowledge Required: (N/A for pre-defined)

ESSENTIAL:

• Degree level educated in one of these fields or similar: Industrial / Manufacturing Engineering, Production / Supply Chain Management, Lean Operations, Portfolio Management.
• Subject matter expertise in project resource/finance management including such areas as resource management, FTE demand, risk analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Overall business experience required, with minimum experience in a portfolio management systems role.
• Demonstrated leadership, training delivery, and deployment of portfolio management at multiple levels of an organization.
• People management knowledge and experience
• Strong cross-functional business acumen
• Proven track record in leading significant Change initiatives that have delivered breakthrough results for an organization.

Preferred

• Project/Portfolio Management qualification/certification – e.g. Diploma, Masters, PMP, Prince, etc..
• Leadership of project team or people management experience
• Experience in design, implementation and scaling of portfolio management business systems

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Employee Type:
Contract

Location:
Raynham, MA, US

Job Type:
PMO and Business Operations

Date Posted:
November 7, 2022