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.

• Strategic Leadership: Provide strategic oversight and direction for complex high-impact programs ensuring alignment with organizational goals long-term business strategy and cross-functional priorities.

• Program Ownership in Ambiguous Situations: Lead multiple high-level programs where goals resources and conditions may be unclear or subject to change. Make well-informed decisions amidst ambiguity and drive clarity through leadership prioritization and resource alignment.

• Focus on Sustaining Engineering/Released Product Management: Play a critical role in sustaining engineering or released product management by driving post-launch product support and optimization initiatives. Ensure products remain competitive and compliant through continuous improvement lifecycle management and addressing evolving customer or regulatory needs.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a strategic liaison between cross-functional teams including Released Product Management Sustaining Engineering R&D Operations Quality and Regulatory Affairs. Foster strong collaboration to support ongoing product maintenance product quality improvements and compliance updates.

• Adaptable Program Execution: Manage the lifecycle of complex cross-departmental projects including new product initiatives sustainability efforts and product lifecycle management. Maintain a flexible approach to project execution adapting strategies as necessary to accommodate evolving business needs or shifting priorities with a strong focus on sustaining product integrity.

• Risk Management and Problem Solving: Proactively identify potential risks resource gaps and organizational bottlenecks particularly in the context of sustaining existing products. Develop risk mitigation plans and contingency strategies to address challenges while maintaining momentum and focus on key strategic objectives.

• Executive Communication and Influence: Regularly communicate program status milestones and challenges to senior leadership and key stakeholders. Leverage storytelling and data-driven insights to advocate for strategic adjustments resource allocation and decision-making that align with long-term goals.

• Drive Business Impact: Identify and act on opportunities to optimize program outcomes with a particular focus on Released Product Management or Sustaining Engineering projects. Use data and key performance indicators (KPIs) to guide decisions and ensure measurable improvements in product reliability compliance and customer satisfaction.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

• Bachelors degree required with preference for degrees in business engineering or a related discipline.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant project management experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience leading complex strategic programs.

Nice to Have

• Strategic Focus: Proven experience leading large-scale programs with a focus on strategic decision-making resource management and long-term business planning particularly in the context of product lifecycle or sustaining engineering.

• Thrives in Ambiguity: Demonstrated ability to lead effectively in environments of uncertainty and change with the capability to define clear paths forward set strategic priorities and drive results despite unclear or evolving circumstances.

• Sustaining Engineering/Released Product Management Expertise: Direct experience in sustaining engineering or released product management with a strong understanding of post-launch product support lifecycle management and addressing compliance or quality challenges.

• Influence without Authority: Strong influence management skills capable of working collaboratively with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders at all levels to build consensus and alignment.

• Analytical and Financial Acumen: Ability to analyze complex business situations synthesize information and apply insights to develop program strategies financial forecasts and risk assessments.

• Change Management Expertise: Experience driving organizational change managing transitions and navigating the impacts of industry market or technology shifts on ongoing programs.

• Experience working across global teams and matrixed organizations.

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.