Senior Program Manager

Working Location

Massachusetts, Westborough

Hybrid

For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. Every day, we live by our philosophy, True to Life, by advancing medical technologies and elevating the standard of patient care so people everywhere can fulfill their desires, dreams, and lives. We are a global medical technology company dedicated to improving patient outcomes by elevating the standard of care in targeted disease states.

• Patient Focus
• Integrity
• Innovation
• Impact
• Empathy

The Senior Program Manager will be responsible for managing large-scale, highly complex, multi-faceted new product development programs, strategic initiatives or integrations involving internal and external development partners. All projects and programs will involve leading fully cross-functional and global core teams with both internal and external team members. The Sr. Program Manager is responsible for the planning of all program subsystem and project deliverables, synchronization and prioritization of Core Team activities.

Scope includes driving the team in the development of a business case. They are accountable for product quality, program investment, delivery to schedule, product cost, and resource allocation. The Sr. Program Manager is responsible for directly and indirectly driving program execution and all development efforts while ensuring that all program deliverables and efforts are connected and meet internal and external customer requirements and follow OSTA’s Product Development Process (PDP), including communicating various progress reports and reviews with senior leadership.

• Plan and execute highly complex, large-scale internal and external new product development programs (made up of multiple cross-functional projects with distinct goals).
• Lead the Core Team in the development of a project charter, objectives, project plan and schedule for assigned program.
• Develop and manage budgets for the program including resource loading, external expenses, and capital requirements.
• Proactively identify and assess areas of risk, elevate issues in a timely manner, and collaboratively develop and deploy solutions.
• Proactively assess program health and identify opportunities for project change; implement and manage changes and interventions to achieve timely project outputs.
• Proactively manage project‑related actions and deliverables, holding team members and functional managers accountable for completion.
• Create, align, and provide regular project updates (written and verbal) to appropriate stakeholders and relevant management board; create presentations, dashboards, and executive summaries – both scheduled and ad‑hoc.
• Conduct highly effective cross‑functional team meetings to ensure accountability and milestone achievements; create agendas and publish minutes/actions.
• Build team ownership and commitment to project and business plans and define project milestones, deliverables, and associated resource requirements.
• Actively lead cross‑functional project teams (and external partners) through planning and execution, providing direction, guidance, coaching and mentoring for Core Team members when needed; prioritize activities for team.
• Proactively manage performance issues and conflicts within project team; work to resolve these issues in alignment with functional management.
• Provide input to functional leaders on team member performance and functional management support.
• Cultivate a team culture of continuous improvement and teamwork that strives to improve in quality, safety, delivery, and cost.
• Actively build and foster collaborative relationships across all levels of internal stakeholders and external partners to improve overall outcomes and timely project execution.
• Gain collaboration, cooperation, and commitment from people through influence, rather than authority.
• May lead functional excellence initiatives.
• Lead early‑stage business case development and planning efforts of a program; includes gathering customer input and defining user requirements.
• Define early‑stage estimates of schedule,…