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Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

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

         

         

The Sr Program Manager leads one of the Surgical Operating Unit’s most complex regulatory and operational programs, responsible for enabling the EU MDR transition while maintaining global product availability with a heavy operations focus.  

The role provides direct leadership to a program team of four reports and orchestrates execution across regulatory, supply chain, operations, quality, clinical, and commercial organizations. Success requires integrating regulatory transition plans, global market access strategies, and operational readiness to ensure continuity of product supply across international markets. The role also partners closely with supply chain and operations leaders to address complex operational challenges associated with regulatory transitions, product lifecycle decisions, and global supply continuity.

This leader operates at the center of decision-making, guiding prioritization, resolving cross-functional tradeoffs, and ensuring the organization can navigate regulatory change without disruption to patients or customers. 

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 our work. We are working a minimum of four 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.

Program Scope

• Leads a complex regulatory transition program with global market and operational impact.
• Directly manages a team of program leaders responsible for key MDR transition workstreams.
• Integrates regulatory, operational, and commercial plans to ensure uninterrupted global product availability.
• Coordinates execution across Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, Marketing, Clinical, and enterprise PMO teams.

You will

• Program Strategy and Governance
  • Define and implement the EU MDR program strategy and Globalization approach aligned with regulatory requirements and business priorities.
  • Establish governance structures, decision frameworks, and operating mechanisms that enable effective program execution across multiple teams and regions.
  • Drive integrated program planning that aligns regulatory transition activities, market access planning, and operational readiness.
  • Ensure alignment across MDR program workstreams while maintaining clear accountability for execution and program outcomes.
  • Partner with Supply Chain and Operations leadership to incorporate manufacturing, supply, and lifecycle considerations into MDR transition planning and program decision-making.
• People Leadership and Program Direction
  • Lead and develop a team of program leaders responsible for key MDR transition workstreams, establishing clear accountability and performance expectations.
  • Coach and mentor team members to strengthen program leadership capability, stakeholder engagement, and strategic execution.
  • Build and lead a cohesive program leadership team that collaborates effectively across workstreams and functions.
  • Enable program team members to operate with autonomy while maintaining alignment with overall program strategy and priorities.
• Globalization and Product Continuity
  • Lead the Globalization strategy, aligning regulatory registrations, market access planning, and supply readiness across global regions.
  • Integrate regulatory transition plans with manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial readiness to maintain uninterrupted product availability.
  • Identify and mitigate regulatory and operational risks that could impact global market access or product supply.
  • Drive cross-functional planning to ensure regulatory timelines, product lifecycle decisions, and supply strategies remain synchronized.
• Program