Terumo Aortic are looking to recruit a Project Manager to join our Product Technology Programme Management team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the departments project and resource management activities and strategies.

The key duties of the role are;

• Ensure implementation of standardised governance across all projects
• Maintain standard reporting formats per approved project templates
• Measure and report performance and progress of all projects in the portfolio using appropriate tools and techniques
• Identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders
• Delivering approved projects within agreed timescales and budgets
• Taking ownership of assigned projects, ensuring stakeholder buy-in at all levels within the organisation
• Support a team to define, implement, and maintain organisation-wide project and resource management tools allowing for effective and efficient project and resource management activities
• Provide project and resource management performance reports in accordance with any applicable communication plan in order to support executive decision making
• Monitor resource demand using appropriate and available tools. Recommend and facilitate the sharing of resources among their constituent projects to the overall benefit of the organisation
• Facilitate stakeholder management by communicating all relevant information including decisions and prioritisations to the stakeholders including executive management in order to ensure organisational alignment
• Report on Key Performance Indicators and evaluate for appropriate action
• Create and maintain project templates including resource estimates to accurately capture and forecast resource requirements and project delivery dates
• Maintain accurate resource capacity/availability and related information using appropriate and available tools
• Develop plans using goals and objectives of the programme, applicable historical information, and other available resources in order to align program with expectations of sponsors and stakeholders

• Execute project plans (quality, risk, communication, staffing, etc) by using the appropriate tools and by auditing the results of their use in order to align the project outcomes with stakeholder expectations and standards

• Capture project and resource status and data by ensuring the population of the project management information system in order to maintain accurate and current project and resource information for the use of stakeholders

Qualifications & Experience;

• Educated to degree level
• Formal project management training (preferred)
• Experience of managing projects within a regulated manufacturing environment preferable
• Strong interpersonal skills, coupled with attention to detail, excellent review skills and analytical skills
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong ability to organize and manage