Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology | Boston MA or Grenoble, France – DePuy Synthes

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Job Function: R&D Product Development Job Sub Function: Robotics Job Category: Scientific/Technology All Job Posting Locations: Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America Job Description: About Orthopaedics Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech. We are searching for the best talent for a Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology to join our J&J Orthopaedics (DePuy Synthes) team. This position can be based in Boston, MA or Gières, France, depending on business needs and candidate location. Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes. ********** Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s): United States - Requisition Number: R-087902 France - Requisition Number: R-101072 Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission. ********** Purpose: The Staff Project Manager Advanced Technology is responsible for managing the advanced technology pre-charter funnel and for planning and executing assigned projects within the Advanced Technology group in Digital R&D, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, cost, and quality in a regulated medical device environment. A primary focus of this role is to run the pre-charter intake process, prioritize and govern the funnel of advanced technology opportunities, track their progress and maturity, and ensure that projects are correctly managed and transferred into New Product Development (NPD) when they reach charter readiness. Reporting to the Platform Program Manager, this role owns the project-level integrated plan (WBS/IMS), project budget baseline and EVM tracking, project RAID management, change control, and stakeholder communications. The Project Manager coordinates cross-functional execution across software, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, clinical, internal cross-functional partners, external partners, and drives disciplined controls to enable predictable delivery outcomes. You will be responsible for: Manage the advanced technology pre-charter funnel, owning the intake process for new opportunities, ensuring requests are captured, assessed, and tracked through a consistent and transparent pipeline. Prioritize pre-charter opportunities in partnership with platform leadership and key stakeholders, applying agreed criteria to rank and sequence the funnel and to inform resourcing and investment decisions. Track and report the progress and maturity of pre-charter activities, maintaining funnel visibility (status, gating criteria, decisions, and next steps) and driving items toward charter readiness or disposition. Ensure pre-charter projects are correctly managed and seamlessly transferred into New Product Development (NPD) when they meet charter readiness, including handoff of scope, plans, risks, and deliverables to the receiving NPD team with clear ownership and continuity. Own project planning and baseline management for assigned advanced technology projects, including project charter, scope baseline, WBS, and an integrated master schedule aligned to the platform program plan. Manage project schedule execution, critical path tracking, milestone readiness, and schedule recovery actions; maintain and communicate weekly status to the platform leadership team. Own the project budget baseline, track actuals and forecasts, and perform earned value management (EVM) tracking; provide inputs for program-level financial reviews and funding decisions. Maintain the project RAID log (risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies) with proactive mitigation actions; escalate cross-project or platform-level risks and decisions through the Platform Program Manager. Lead project core team meetings, drive action/decision tracking, and ensure timely follow-through across cross-functional contributors. Manage project change requests (scope/schedule/cost) and ensure changes are reviewed, approved, and documented per governance and change control expectations. Drive project resource demand and capacity planning wit