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A Day in the Life

Join Medtronics Surgical Operating Unit as a Sr PD PMO Specialist in our Robotic Surgical Technologies (RST) Released Product Management (RPM) Project Management Office (PMO). In this critical role youll support program and project management activities for released surgical products collaborating across departments such as R&D Quality Regulatory Affairs and Marketing. Youll help drive effective execution of sustaining engineering and quality improvement projects ensuring teams are well-coordinated focused on priorities and committed to delivering results that put patients first.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support cross-functional teams in planning executing and monitoring projects for released surgical products.
• Support quality initiatives including the coordination and execution of CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) projects ensuring timely completion and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Program/Project Managers to maintain schedules dashboards and resource plans.
• Track project milestones deliverables and budgets; ensure adherence to established processes and regulatory standards.
• Facilitate meetings document decisions and follow up on action items to closure.
• Help identify and mitigate risks balancing time schedule cost and quality.
• Assist with project financial tracking including labor resource management.
• Prepare and deliver regular status reports to leadership and stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO and product sustaining processes.
• Foster professional growth and cross-functional collaboration through onsite engagement.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 4 years of experience in project or program management preferably in a regulated industry (medical device automotive aerospace etc.) Or: Masters degree and 2 years of listed experience Or; PhD and 0 years of experience.
• Experience supporting or managing commercial product delivery projects.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Project PowerPoint Excel Word).
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
• Strong communication organization and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7 years of project management or commercial product delivery experience.
• PMP CSM or similar project management certification.
• Experience working under FDA or other regulatory requirements.
• Experience supporting quality initiatives including CAPA projects.
• Familiarity with advanced scheduling and resource management tools (Microsoft Project Prochain/Fusion Resource First/PDWare Jira etc.).
• Familiarity with agile project management and/or SAFe Agile Project Management
• Experience supporting teams in the development or commercialization of complex medical devices (e.g. staplers sutures clip appliers).
• Experience working with global teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Leads or leverages cross functional teams to evaluate develop and manage projects for new product development and ongoing lifecycle management of products processes and therapies.
• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning project team and line management.
• Manages the development and implementation process of a companys products and services involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products and processes.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Monitors the project from initiation through delivery.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity quality and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers line managers and clients.
• Gathers requirements works on requirements planning requirements elicitation and requirements management to ensure they meet demands of projects key stakeholders.
• Communicates with stakeholders obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20 hours per week: Health Dental and vision insuranceHealth Savings AccountHealthcare Flexible Spending AccountLife insurance Long-term disability leaveDependent daycare spending accountTuition assistance/reimbursement andSimple Steps (global well-being program).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees:Incentive plans 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and matchShort-term disabilityPaid time offPaid holidaysEmployee Stock Purchase PlanEmployee Assistance ProgramNon-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums) andCapital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above or subject to IRS earning minimums).

Regular employees are those who are not temporary such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time as required under applicable state law and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.