Job Description

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

As a Project Manager you will lead highly visible and global critical projects within the STERIS Healthcare- Reprocessing business. This is a newly established discipline for our Eden Prairie location, offering the opportunity to help shape how project management is practiced. In this role you will direct all phases of the product development lifecycle—from concept through commercialization—while leading cross‑functional teams through stage-gate processes. You will work closely with onsite Quality and Operations teams, maintain strong collaboration with our PM team in Plymouth, MN, and partner with a highly integrated global team based in Germany. Managing tangible products moving through a real distribution pipeline, you will supports high-speed, recurring-revenue business and be provided significant exposure to senior leadership across Healthcare- Reprocessing and the broader organization.

This is a hybrid role with the requirement of working onsite at our Eden Prairie, MN location, multiple days a week.

What You'll Do as a Project Manager

• Collaborate with the Product Management team on business case justification.
• Develop the cross-functional plan/execution strategy and drive implementation of identified products.
• Ensure compliance with the Sourcing/ NPD / Design Control / lifecycle management processes across all functions. Own the overall project management to ensure outcomes that meet quality, costs, reliability and manufacturability requirement.
• Responsible for leading multiple projects in parallel.
• Develop project schedule, financial budget and lead delivery / presentation of Sourcing/NPD Project Deliverables Plan at stage gates and at VP-level sponsor reviews.
• Monitors project team adherence to master plans / schedules / operating budgets, proactively identifies program risks / mitigation solutions and promotes continuous improvement.
• Act as the primary leader for project activities, leading decision-making / change management and technical performance requirements.
• Drive project teams to make decisions, complete tasks, and execute the plan based on defined deliverables and timelines. 
• Facilitate communication and interaction across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, and Operation functional leadership to ensure transparency of critical deliverables, risks and milestones in the Supplier Transition/NPD process.
• Conduct regular status meetings, technical discussions and reviews to expedite solutions and implementation. Coordinate and allocate resources, including personnel, equipment, and materials.
• Ensure smooth transition across the organization for initial concept through product development, manufacturing and product launch.
  Identify critical dependences, risks and contingency plans.  Proactively monitors progress, anticipating the effect of dependencies on schedule, cost, etc.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating project outcomes, tracking key performance indicators identifying areas for optimization and implementing lessons learned.
• Domestic travel up to 10%.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum combined 5+ years’ experience in any of the following: project management product development, medical device or other regulated industry, new product development, supply chain, or manufacturing.
• Experience leading projects from initial concept, through development and verification/validation testing, and into Manufacturing.
• Ability to balance customer, manufacturing, business and regulatory requirements to expedite launch of the right product to market.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including timely communication, conflict resolution, assertiveness, negotiation and driving results. 
• Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate within a team-based matrixed organization across all business functions, levels and cultures. 
• Experience in successfully coordinating with functional departments (e.g. Legal, Regulatory, Operations, Procurement, Clinical Affairs, Operations, Marketing, Quality, etc.)

Preferred

• PMP certification preferred.
• Experience successfully managing program through medical device product development process preferred.

Skills

• Track record of managing projects to schedule and budget.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound data driven business decisions; understand, track, drill down and question activities and issues in all functional areas.
• Passion to explore / deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to automate PM tasks.
• Excellent interpersonal and influence management skills including evidence of managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills.
• Strong planning, attention to detail, organization skills, follow-through skills and proactive risk management experience.

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being and financial future.

Here is a brief overview of what we offer:

• Market Competitive Pay
• Extensive Paid Time Off and (9) added Holidays
• Excellent Healthcare, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Long/Short Term Disability Coverage
• 401(k) with a company match
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement and continued education programs
• Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career

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Pay range for this opportunity is $100,500 - $134,000. This position is eligible for bonus participation.

Minimum pay rates offered will comply with county/city minimums, if higher than range listed. Pay rates are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to local labor market costs, years of relevant experience, education, professional certifications, foreign language fluency, etc.

STERIS offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio. Click here for a complete list of benefits: STERIS Benefits

Open until position is filled.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com

If you need assistance completing the application process, please call 1 (440) 392.7047. This contact information is for accommodation inquiries only and cannot be used to check application status.

STERIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law. We are not only committed to this policy by our status as a federal government contractor, but also we are strongly bound by the principle of equal employment opportunity.

The full affirmative action program, absent the data metrics required by § 60-741.44(k), shall be available to all employees and applicants for employment for inspection upon request. The program may be obtained at your location’s HR Office during normal business hours.