Strategic Project Manager

About the role :

Alcon is looking to hire a Strategic Project Manager for our Digital Health team. The ideal candidate will work hand in hand with our PMO & Strategy Director, to ensure the delivery of world-class digital health products.

At Alcon, we aspire to lead the world in innovating life-changing vision products because when people see brilliantly, they live brilliantly.

As a global leader in eye care, we believe in innovating especially through cutting edge technology. We are on a journey to offer the widest array of eye care and eye health offerings with products that can treat the entire eye at each stage of life.

Our Digital Health team is harnessing technology to build a leading portfolio of digital health solutions that will transform the eye care experience for medical professionals to patients and enable improved patient outcomes from a predictive healthcare delivery platform harnessing ML and analytics to innovative medical device software.

As a Strategic Project Manager , you will run the project management process which may include recruiting, training, coaching employees, communicating expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing contributions, and enforcing policies and procedures.

We are a fast-growing team, which will give you the opportunity to shape our ways of working and culture - think start-up, but inside a global leader in eye care.

We are looking for someone who is not only a talented leader, but who also is a strong strategic thinker and problem solver.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage strategic projects (e.g., acquisitions) to ensure execution on time and within budget.
• Develop resource and sequencing plans to oversee strategic projects.
• Coordinate sub-projects / tasks among vendor and internal resources.
• Maintain and prioritize a list of issues affecting the project and pro-actively assure their resolution through appropriate parties (e.

g., Solution Architect, infrastructure architect, software / hardware vendor, System Integrator)

• Create project reporting (e.g., status updates,reviews) and deliver presentations indicating progress reports.
• Evaluate and create review documents for changes to project scope.
• Perform project risk assessment and assist in evaluating and identifying controls for the risks.
• Maintain and closely monitor the project risk management plan.

Key Performance Indicators

Attainment against outlined KPIs

Number of associates

Will not have any direct reports

Competency Profile

• Proficient in the governance framework and management skills for both projects and programs.
• Broad working knowledge of enterprise-level functional domains and product and platform operating models.
• Understands the relationship between the Digital Product Manager, Scrum Master, and rest of the team, with a strong sense of design thinking.
• Strong skills in financial management and budgeting, senior stakeholder management, as well as procurement and contract negotiations across the projects and programs
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate and optimize design based on the value to the user and the business, lead ideation sessions and workshops.
• Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines.
• Assertive, with the confidence to be voice of authority not afraid to do what is best for the team.
• High energy and passionate individual who inspires teammates to reach their maximum potential.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.

Language

Ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English

Key Requirements / Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years as a Project / Program Manager
• Experience managing large initiatives across cross-functional teams
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, and software development methodology

Experience working in SaaS or a fast-paced environment

Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.

recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.