Principal Project Manager

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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CooperVision is a global leader in the contact lens industry, dedicated to helping improve the way people see every day. Achieving that goal takes the collaboration of team members with wide-ranging skills; from scientists and researchers, to manufacturing and operations experts, to sales and marketing professionals.

At CooperVision, our effort to improve lives begins with our employees. We are committed to developing people as a key global differentiator and our most important asset. We empower employees to succeed, rewarding great thinking and hard work with competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and with a special focus on wellness. Our commitment to our core values and an employee-centric culture fuel a deeply engaged, high performing organization.

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