We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 23 Sep 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

Our Diabetes Operating Unit is looking for a Senior Product Development Project Management Specialist who will be responsible for achieving successful implementation of strategic product development programs. This position will ensure best-in-class new product development practices as a competitive advantage for the business.

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with Medtronic's Diabetes business. Medtronic has announced its intention to separate the Diabetes division to promote future growth and innovation within the business and reallocate investments and resources across Medtronic, subject to applicable information and consultation requirements. This separation provides our team with a bold opportunity to unleash our potential, enabling us to operate with greater speed and agility. As a separate entity, we anticipate leveraging increased investments to drive meaningful innovation and enhance our impact on patient care.

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 company's 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 project's key stakeholders.

• Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

To be considered for this role, please ensure the minimum requirements are evident in your applicant profile.

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum of 4+ years medical product development, program management or other relevant experience

OR

Advanced Degree and minimum of 2+ years medical product development, program management or other relevant experience

Nice to Have

• Project Management Certification (PMP)

• Experience in product development of drug delivery devices, preferably insulin delivery devices

• Strong project management skills with experience effectively and efficiently executing against project contracts; knowledge of process and project planning best practices.

• Experience in leading within matrix organizations requiring strong influence management skills

• Effective decision-making skills with ability to negotiate and balance decisions and priorities across needs of several functional departments and willingness to make tough decisions

• Experience devising and implementing streamlined processes and strategic programs to improve efficiency, timeliness, and productivity

• A change agent with the willingness and ability to lead and institute change

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 emplo