Project ManagerThe Opportunity:The Project Manager is the driving force behind execution of Marketlab's product development projects from approved scope through launch. This individual turns business and product direction into credible cross-functional plans, keeps dependencies, risks, actions, and decisions visible, and drives follow-through at the required level of readiness. Functional leaders retain their product, technical, quality, regulatory, sourcing, and manufacturing decisions; the Project Manager ensures the work is coordinated, sequenced, and escalated effectively.
Functional/Technical Competencies:
- Integrated Project Planning: Translate approved scope into clear, cross-functional plans with milestones, owners, dependencies, decision points, and launch requirements.
- Stage Gate & Governance: Administer Marketlab's product development process, prepare projects for gate reviews, and ensure required scope, evidence, approvals, risks, and open decisions are visible.
- Schedule, Dependency & Critical-Path Management: Build credible schedules, identify the work that controls timing, and focus the team on constraints that could affect launch.
- Risk, Issue & Change Management: Surface risks early, quantify their effect on timing and commitments, coordinate recovery plans, and replan when assumptions or scope materially change.
- Execution Visibility & Decision Support: Maintain concise, decision-ready reporting on project health, schedule confidence, capacity constraints, major risks, and leadership decisions needed.
- Project Tools & Process Discipline: Keep plans, action and decision logs, project records, and portfolio tools current while improving repeatable execution practices without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Accountability Without Authority: Create clarity, preparation, and follow-through across peers and leaders while respecting each function's decision rights.
- Judgment & Escalation: Distinguish routine execution issues from material tradeoffs and escalate when a plan, commitment, or decision requires leadership attention.
- Clear Communication & Facilitation: Run focused working sessions, document decisions and ownership, and communicate project status and risk in language that enables action.
- Practical Problem-Solving: Bring structure to ambiguity, challenge weak assumptions, and balance speed, rigor, customer commitments, and operational reality.
What You'll Do:- Build and maintain integrated project plans that connect Product Management, Engineering, Sourcing, Quality, Regulatory, Creative, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Commercial milestones.
- Own Stage Gate administration, meeting preparation, readiness standards, and follow-up for assigned product development projects.
- Drive project cadence, actions, dependencies, decisions, and escalation from approved scope through launch.
- Identify and manage the critical path, focusing cross-functional follow-through on the work most likely to affect launch timing or customer commitments.
- Maintain a concise, decision-ready view of project status, schedule confidence, major risks, resource conflicts, and leadership decisions needed.
- Challenge dates, sequencing, readiness, assumptions, and unowned work while leaving functional decisions with the accountable owners.
- Monitor, propose, and implement Product Lifecycle Management process changes in a fluid business environment within requirements of applicable standards.
- Coordinate recovery and replanning when testing, suppliers, requirements, approvals, capacity, or other assumptions materially change.
- Facilitate productive project meetings, maintain clear action and decision logs, and close or escalate overdue commitments.
- Manage cross-functional labeling workflows, schedules, dependencies, approval completeness, and escalation while accountable functions retain content and approval decisions.
- Keep project plans, records, risks, decisions, milestones, and status current in the designated project and portfolio tools.
- Use project performance, rework, missed commitments, and recurring delays to improve templates, standards, governance, and execution practice.
What You'll Need:Required- Minimum 5 years experience managing complex, cross-functional physical-product development projects from approved scope through launch.
- Strong working knowledge of project planning, schedules, dependencies, critical paths, risks, issues, decision tracking, and stage-gate readiness.
- Experience coordinating functions such as Product Management, Engineering, Sourcing, Quality, Regulatory, Creative, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.
- Ability to drive accountability and escalate effectively without relying on positional authority.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and concise project-status reporting skills - both verbally and written.
- Experience using project-management and portfolio-management tools (such as Smartsheet, Asana, MS Project, or similar) to maintain credible plans and execution visibility.
Preferred- PMP certification or comparable formal project-management training.
- Experience with development, manufacture, and commercialization of healthcare products, medical devices, or regulated products in a B2B distribution model.
- Familiarity with quality systems, controlled product-development processes, or ISO 13485 environments.
- Experience managing several concurrent projects with shared resources and competing priorities.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, engineering, operations, supply chain, or a related field.
Benefits: - Paid parental leave
- Scholarship reimbursement
- 401k match
- Benefits effective day one of employment
- Paid short term disability leave
- Flexibility with work from home
- Generous PTO policy that starts on day one
- Paid holidays
- Health and wellness program
- Employee discount program within our family of companies
