About the role:
As the Manager II of Program Management – Magellan (local title, Senior Manager, Delivery Excellence Magellan), you will play a key role in ensuring the successful Delivery of this Business Transformation project across all functions, divisions, and regions of the Company. This is a critical and strategic role, reporting to the Director of Delivery Excellence - Magellan. Collaborating with and across Magellan Workstreams, Process Owners, Community of Practices and Stakeholders across the network is a critical success factor for this position. The Program will last for approximately 6 years and the role will entail planning and execution of activities in the following phases: Project Scope/Mobilization, Requirements, Design, Build and Testing, Deployment to post Go Live sustaining.
You will be part of a dedicated team responsible for developing the processes to support the execution of this critical transformation project. We are seeking a change leader who is motivated to continuously optimize our delivery methodology, leveraging agile and lean design thinking and project management best practices.
Your responsibilities include:
- Take shared responsibility and accountability for the successful planning and execution of the global program as part of the Delivery Excellence team to develop processes and tools to ensure predictable execution.
- Program Governance – shared responsibility for effective governance across the program which may include:
- Owning Steering Committee agenda and material preparation.
- Owning functional reporting and risk management activities through RAID.
- Coordinating Process Governance board to manage process changes and roll out across the program.
- Represent team performance in Execution and Deployment Governance meetings.
- Schedule Creation and Management, including resource capacity planning within assigned teams.
- Value Realization – identify transformational opportunities to be delivered by the program for tracking via BSC VIP
- Program and Team Risk Management – identify potential project risks and define appropriate actions to mitigate, escalating to program leadership where appropriate.
- Program / Team Metrics – support program oversight of individual team performance and drive a culture of accountability across the program.
- Leadership of US based P5 level project managers to execute Delivery Excellence deliverables.
- Special projects – lead surge projects in key areas of risk or performance issues, drive process improvements as an outcome of lessons learned, and other key project management needs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Quality, Engineering, Science or applicable field required; Advanced degree preferred.
- 7+ years technical professional or operational experience in medical device field required.
- 5+ years of PMO experience.
- Previous leadership experience across a business network or the management of large change programs, ideally technology or systems environment.
- Working knowledge of ERP systems and the broader Application Ecosystem, combined with knowledge of key business processes.
- Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Courage to make decisions for the best interest of global BSC even if it means reasonable compromise for a local team.
- Demonstrate high degree of integrity, professionalism, and the ability to establish credibility.
- Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
- Proven adaptability, comfortable with change and with a demonstrated ability to react and respond to a fast-changing environment. Demonstrates effective change leadership.
- High sense of urgency and commitment to execution.
- Servant leader who creates an empowered and self-driven team culture
- Demonstrated capability in collaborating and influencing across a matrixed organization
- Builds strategic partnerships to gain further alignment of program goals and outcomes.
Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status. Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment. Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements. As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.