Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cook Medical is a medical device company whose Corporate Program Management Office supports strategic priorities that move the business forward. The Project Manager 2 will lead multiple strategic projects, coordinating global stakeholders and managing scope, resources, risks, communications, timelines, budgets, and deliverables. The role partners with department and program leadership to execute cross-functional initiatives and achieve business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Work with key stakeholders to define full project scope, lead operational planning, and execution for assigned projects
- Drive alignment between project delivery and business priorities, ensuring alignment on expected outcomes and benefits realization
- Manage and prioritize multiple concurrent projects, balancing resources, dependencies and timelines
- Establish meeting agendas, facilitate team discussions, and drive clear and timely team actions and decisions
- Proactively identify and address barriers and risks to project progress, keeping leadership informed of critical considerations and the implications of priority decisions
- Ensure project deliverables are achieved on or ahead of schedule, within budget, and with quality and outcomes that meet or exceed business needs
- Must work and interact effectively and professionally with and for others throughout various levels of the global organization
- Manage scheduled and ad-hoc project status reporting, using project data and tools to keep updates accurate and timely
- Manage project communication for all stakeholders, including tailored updates for leadership
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional conversations when new information arises, including scope changes, risks, and competing priorities
- Listen for and understand what motivates team members and stakeholders to build and maintain engagement and support
- Tailor professional communications across verbal, written, and presentation formats to the target audience
- Strong professional interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and work collaboratively across teams
- Technology-forward and quick to adopt new tools, including AI, data, and analytics platforms
- Excellent creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Must maintain company quality standards
- Must strictly adhere to safety requirements
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance
Skills
- Bachelor's degree, or significant experience of such kind to provide a comparable background
- A minimum of 3–5 years of project management experience, including leading multiple concurrent projects
- Experience directing and managing project teams toward defined objectives
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills
- Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite, project management software, and ability to leverage emerging technologies such as AI
- Must work eastern time zone
- Work with key stakeholders to define full project scope, lead operational planning, and execution for assigned projects
- Drive alignment between project delivery and business priorities, ensuring alignment on expected outcomes and benefits realization
- Manage and prioritize multiple concurrent projects, balancing resources, dependencies and timelines
- Establish meeting agendas, facilitate team discussions, and drive clear and timely team actions and decisions
- Proactively identify and address barriers and risks to project progress, keeping leadership informed of critical considerations and the implications of priority decisions
- Ensure project deliverables are achieved on or ahead of schedule, within budget, and with quality and outcomes that meet or exceed business needs
- Must work and interact effectively and professionally with and for others throughout various levels of the global organization
- Manage scheduled and ad-hoc project status reporting, using project data and tools to keep updates accurate and timely
- Manage project communication for all stakeholders, including tailored updates for leadership
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional conversations when new information arises, including scope changes, risks, and competing priorities
- Listen for and understand what motivates team members and stakeholders to build and maintain engagement and support
- Tailor professional communications across verbal, written, and presentation formats to the target audience
- Strong professional interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships and work collaboratively across teams
- Technology-forward and quick to adopt new tools, including AI, data, and analytics platforms
- Excellent creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Must maintain company quality standards
- Must strictly adhere to safety requirements
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance
- PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred
- Hybrid preferred, remote acceptable
Benefits
- Remote acceptable
- Hybrid preferred
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