About The Role

At CooperVision , a business unit of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), we’re driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life’s beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing . As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio , we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia . We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers . Learn more at www.coopervision.com

This position requires full-time onsite work (5 days per week) in Juana Diaz, P.R.

Job Summary

The purpose of this job is to provide leadership, planning, and coordination for all project activities, ensuring that the project’s scope, schedule, budget, and risks are effectively managed. The role involves maintaining strong vendor relationships, fostering communication among stakeholders, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Additionally, the position aims to align the project with Cooper’s strategic vision, promote the value of project management, and cultivate an innovative and respectful work environment.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities

Provides the project team with advanced leadership, planning, and coordination for high-impact and cross-functional initiatives
Leads the definition and governance of scope, schedule, budget, resources, and risks for complex projects or programs
Develops strategic vendor partnerships in collaboration with Global Sourcing
Serves as a key liaison between Sr. Management, sponsors, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and prioritization
Partners with regulatory and QA to ensure full compliance integration throughout the project lifecycle
Mentors team members and leads a high-performance culture
Develops and sustains long-term customer relationships to enhance satisfaction and business alignment
Aligns and delivers program outcomes with Cooper’s long-term strategy, vision, and goals
Demonstrates mature leadership style that resonates with a range of stakeholders
Works with Project Managers to ensure the true cost benefits are known, presented, and managed throughout the project lifecycle
Elevates project management maturity by influencing best practices and adoption of PMO tools (dashboards, EOM, 4-blockers, others)
Generates and maintains overall resource plan enabling optimum use of GTIG resources across the project portfolio reflecting business priorities
Leads Project reporting forums for GTIG
Supports GTIG’s strategic planning (VMOST)
Supports project prioritization alignment with GTIG and OLT strategic process
Supports GTIG’s Finance and HR Cycles
Fosters an innovative culture by:
Leading industry benchmarking initiatives
Shaping the technology landscape through trend analysis
Driving innovation frameworks within the team
Manages relationships by:
Establishing professional credibility and trust
Anticipating stakeholder needs
Navigating complex communications diplomatically
Resolving conflicts constructively
Applies a holistic and systemic mindset to anticipate impacts across the organization
Drives the successful adoption of changes while ensuring they are rooted in the most effective and efficient processes
Oversees multiple high-priority projects and/or programs within PMO governance framework
Strategically allocates and realigns resources to meet changing priorities
Owns delivery and communication of critical project KPIs and portfolio dashboards
Leads team briefings and strategic steering meetings
Shapes and facilitates executive stakeholder engagement
Owns full budgeting, forecasting, and strategic cost planning

General Functions

Travel

Travel will be based on project requirements and will typically include up to 25% travel to CooperVision sites and vendors within the UK, Europe and internationally. There may be projects where more frequent travel (up to 50%) is required for a defined period

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent influencing and effective persuasion skills
Excellent interpersonal skills
Excellent problem-solving skills
Ability to coach and mentor other engineers on above skills
Ability to focus on the critical technical project management elements for each project managed
Ability to tailor both traditional and agile tools techniques and methods for each project
Ability to prioritize diligently
Ability to manage and integrate each of the project management knowledge areas
Ability to identify the right balance between being a manager and a leader depending on the situation
Ability to develop an appropriate project delivery strategy
Ability to determine which business factors should be considered for the project and how these factors could affect the project, while understanding the interrelationship between the project and the organization
Ability to communicate fluently in English in writing and verbally
Computer literate: Knowledge on MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Power Point, and MS Word
Highly motivated, self-starter, and responsible person

Work Environment

Usually works in a closed environment, in office conditions, with moderate level of noise and controllable changes of temperature
Needs to stand, walk, and may be seated for long periods
Uses hands to feel, handle and reach
Performs light physical effort with little exposure to adverse conditions
Could be required to travel
Works with a personal computer and programs to prepare documents or reports
Applies communication skills (advance reading, writing, and technical skills) and mathematical concepts knowledge to perform work and coordinate with others
Needs to have high analytical capacity and level of professionalism and judgment to resolve problems
Incumbent could work near moving mechanical parts

Experience

7+ years in Project Management
7+ years in medical device or pharmaceutical industry

Education

B.S. in Engineering Discipline, or equivalent technical experience
Certification from a worldwide recognized organization (PMI, APM, Prince, etc.) or graduate studies in PM is a plus

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace .

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