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.

• 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.
• Develops and monitors schedules plans tasks and priorities ensuring a streamlined workflow.
• Drives problem-solving sessions maintaining a sense of urgency and holding team members accountable to commitments.
• Anticipates and mitigates risks balancing time schedule cost and quality while adhering to safety and regulatory standards.
• Manages project financials including forecasting and tracking of accruals and actuals.
• 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 external partners.
• Accountable for ensuring that the Core Team(s) achieve contracted commitments and performance metrics.
• 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.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAREER STREAM:Program Managers 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 small-scale developed or mature programs with well-defined program plans and delivery methodologies.
Is accountable for overall program process performance and customer satisfaction.

Organizational Impact:Provides input to establishing program objectives timelines milestones and budgets.
Recommends new policies and procedures that affect program management.
May have budget accountability for one or more programs.
Program decisions are generally made only after consultation with higher level management.

Innovation and Complexity:Problems faced are difficult and require detailed information gathering analysis and investigation to understand the problem.
Problems typically impact multiple workstreams departments or specialties.
Modifies 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.
Solves issues through information exchange influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties on program execution plans.

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

Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires practical knowledge in leading and managing the execution of processes projects and tactics within one job area.
Typically has advanced knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the organization.
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 5 years of relevant experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• 10 years of experience in Project Management
• MBA and/or PMP / CSM Certification
• High degree of competency in Microsoft Office Suite (Project PowerPoint Excel Word)
• Proven track record of successfully managing within a matrixed organization
• Knowledgein product development project management and commercialization in the medical device industry
• Strong communication and teamwork skills; builds trusting relationships with team members and key leadership stakeholders
• Must be able to lead cross-functional discussions; driving towards alignment decisions resolutions when necessary
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once while understanding cultural differences between various regions of the world
• Experience with IT connectivity and/or interoperability solutions
• Experience working under regulations of the FDA notified bodies and other regulatory agencies for successful commercial launches
• Product launch experience working with Global teams
• Experience with SAFe/Agile software development practices

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B TN J etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend lifewhere your unique background and perspective are valued.

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.