At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

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

• Plans performs and implements process improvement initiatives (such as Lean or Six Sigma).
• Diagrams and evaluates existing processes.
• Organizes leads and facilitates cross-functional project teams.
• Develops metrics that provide data for process measurement identifying indicators for future improvement opportunities.
• Collects data to identify root cause of problems.
• Measures performance against process requirements.
• Aligns improvement to performance shortfalls.
• Provides consultation on the use of re-engineering techniques to improve process performance and product quality.
• May deliver presentations and training courses including measurement analysis improvement and control.
• Surveys and analyzes best practices for techniques and processes.
• Communicates team progress.
• Performs cost and benefit analyses.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAREER STREAM:Program Managers and Directors focus on tactical operational activities for a major program with broad or ongoing impact. Levels within the program management career stream typically accomplish program objectives through matrixed employee teams and / or vendors who are not direct reports but for which the incumbent has direct accountability to lead. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility managing program/team performance communicating project and operational developments planning prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of program team members. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of program team members.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy:Manages one or more medium-scale established programs with generally-defined program plans and delivery methodologies.
Is accountable for overall program process performance and customer satisfaction.

Organizational Impact:Participates in establishing program objectives timelines milestones and budgets .
Develops new policies and procedures that affect program management.
Typically has budget accountability for one or more programs.
Program decisions are generally recommended to higher level management.

Innovation and Complexity:Problems and issues faced are difficult and undefined and require detailed information gathering analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
Problems typically impact multiple workstreams departments or specialties .
Enhances programs management processes to improve program.

Communication and Influence:Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors conducts briefings to higher level management team.
Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties on program objectives and execution plans .

Leadership and Talent Management:Leads directs and reviews the work of a team of managers experienced professionals and/or vendors who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments.
Establishes daily tasks necessary for successful program execution.
Not directly responsible for hire or fire decisions and people management.

Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires broad management knowledge and experience to lead project teams in one department.
Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.
Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 7 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

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.

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.

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