We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 28 Jun 2025

 

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

A Day in the Life

The Acute Care and Monitoring OU is committed to excellence in innovation and commercialization to pursue our vision and long-term business growth. The ACM OU R&D organization is refining its product delivery, innovation, and commercialization approach to enable product leadership across all segments of our product portfolio. This will require enhancing our innovation processes, refining our design and delivery approaches to deliver an integrated and comprehensive portfolio that enables product development excellence across ACM.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to do our work. We're working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

We will consider talent to work at our Boulder/Lafayette or Galway, Ireland site.



The Sr. Program Manager will be accountable for programmatic management of several medium to large scale strategic programs across the Acute Care and Monitoring portfolio.

This can include:
• Development, creation and implementation of global coordinated cross functional project plans for commercialization initiatives across ACM
• Product level program management, commercial program management, cross product / technical site program management and or external partnerships to deliver a product or service (Commercialization: bringing new products or services to our customers)
• Strategize, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives
Oversee multiple project teams, ensuring commercialization program goals are reached

Immediate focus for this Program Manager will be on our products in the Respiratory Franchise including Shiley, Microstream and RespArray product lines.

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 cross functional teams management.
• 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 project’s key stakeholders.
• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Risk Management:

• Identify and mitigate program risks
• Work with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department

Leadership and Team Coordination:

• Provide technical leadership in directing the efforts of cross-functional project teams in the development and production release of all relevant project deliverables in compliance with the Go-To-Market strategy
• Provide necessary leadership including program/project interdependency analysis
• Manage program and project teams for optimal return on investment, and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives

Communication and Reporting:

• Inform the Innovation Council of commercialization progress for all regions in scope
• Ensure the commercialization plan remains aligned with the project plan by addressing any resource conflicts and problems as they emerge. Facilitate project team meetings; prepare agendas, facilitate discussions during meetings, take and distribute meeting minutes

Alignment and Collaboration:

• Drive alignment across the commercialization and product lifecycle management core teams
• Work closely with Innovation Delivery leaders, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for commercialization
• Identify key requirements for cross-functional teams, OU commercial teams, regions lead, and external partners depending on the program

Project Management:

• Utilize effective project management techniques to independently execute on project deliverables. This includes managing scope, schedule, risk, and budget
• Provide input to establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets
• Monitor the effectiveness and performance of the launch and project team and facilitate the development of contingency plans, recommending corrective actions as required.

Process improvement

• Contribute to best practice creation and sharing across teams, creating/enhancing tools and templates
• Develop the Project Management skills of others, especially team members. Provide tactical and/or operational leadership and coaching
• Establish plans and implement policies and strategies. Decisions impact program schedules, or allocation of time, material resources, expenditures and funds

Skills:

• Proven experience in strategic program management.
• Strong leadership and team coordination skills.
• Excellent risk management and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication and reporting skills.
• Ability to drive alignment and collaboration across teams.
• Proficiency in program management techniques

Market and Customer Awareness

• Interacting frequently with external suppliers, business development and regions in the integration of programs/products

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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, , 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.

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MUST HAVE: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of experience OR
• Advanced degree with 5+ years of experience
• 2+ Years of experience in development of medical devices and/or program management experience
• Complete understanding and application of Project Management principles, concepts, practices, and standards

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NICE TO HAVE:

• Demonstrated competencies and ability to apply independently:  Self-Management, Goal Achievement, Personal Accountability, Planning & Organizing, Resiliency, Flexibility, Teamwork, Leadership, Interpersonal Skills, Diplomacy & Tact, Customer Focus, Problem Solving Ability, Conceptual Thinking, Persuasion, Decision Making, Creativity, Verbal & Written Communication
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Ability to drive/lead in a matrix structure
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks/projects and manage priorities accordingly
• Medical Device industry experience- knowledge of new product development, DRM, clinical trial management, quality systems, global regulatory experience.
• Experience developing solutions for clinicians.
• Advanced degree such as MS, MBA, with strong financial acumen
• Extensive experience leading a complex project/program including financial accountability including strong preference for PMP certification.
• Prior experience managing large/complex site to site transfer projects in a manufacturing environment.
• Effective planning and organization skills including the proven ability to work against multiple objectives simultaneously.
• Knowledgeable of U.S. Food and Drug Law and WW regulatory, device safety and/or regulatory/clinical research.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$170,400.00 - $255,600.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: Health, Dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account, Healthcare Flexible Spending Account, Life insurance, Long-term disability leave, Dependent daycare spending account, Tuition assistance/reimbursement, and Simple 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 match, Short-term disability, Paid time off, Paid holidays, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee Assistance Program, Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital 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 95,000+ 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.

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